Ninety Minutes

July 30, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

According to The Hill

Hackers at at a conference in Las Vegas were able to successfully breach the software of U.S. voting machines in just 90 minutes on Friday, illuminating glaring security deficiencies in America’s election infrastructure.

People who sell electronic voting machines tell us that it is impossible to hack an election in the United States because each state has their own voting system and each county within those states has difference voting machines and it would be almost impossible to break into all of them.

But, you don’t have to break into all of them.  You would only need to hack fewer than 100 or so key precinct in targeted counties in 3 or 4 states to swing the electoral college in a completely new direction.

In my county, a recount means just looking at the voting totals in each precinct and adding them again.  That means there is no such thing as a recount.  The exception is mail ballots, which can be handed counted.

I want to go back to pencils, paper, and locked metal boxes.  They can be “hacked”, but it would take longer to make secret copies of the ballots and slip them into the box while both a Democrat and a Republican are present.

Ninety minutes.

Damn.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

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