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https://justthenews.com/nation...hem-written-nh-voter Aforensic firm discovered security bugs as well as the Ukrainian national anthem written into the code of a voter database in New Hampshire. New Hampshire election officials hired a small Connecticut-based IT firm, to update its voter registration database ahead of the 2024 election. The company decided to outsource some of the software work offshore. New Hampshire officials hired a forensics firm, ReversingLabs, to investigate the work that was completed. The firm later discovered "software misconfigured to connect to servers in Russia and the use of open-source code — which is freely available online — overseen by a Russian computer engineer convicted of manslaughter," according to anonymous sources cited in a Politico report. A coder also wrote the Ukrainian national anthem into the database software. ReversingLabs has not disclosed the vendor that outsourced the work. The security issues were resolved ahead of the 2024 presidential primary election, according to the report. https://www.politico.com/news/...ity-threats-00176615 _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | ||
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting. I suppose the one takeaway you could make is that the states are trying to do better, but it’s far from perfect. As usual, the Feds are big on mandates but short on money to implement them. There’s nothing new under the sun there. _________________________ "Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it." Robert Heinlein | |||
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I’m starting to feel like voting in America is the equivalent of voting in Venezuela. We need to go back to voting IN PERSON and PAPER BALLOTS where EVERY BALLOT is counted by a HUMAN from each party. I much prefer the old punch tickets that we used when I was young. The “lol” thread | |||
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Lol. The "Feds" and "short on money" don't belong in the same sentence. Q | |||
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Thank you for posting. I do not recall seeing this anywhere else, but not surprised the MSM would not report it. Also, agree with Beancooker that we need to go back to voting in person using paper ballots with counters from both parties. It may take longer to count and report but has much more integrity than the various electronic devices currently in use. | |||
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Funny thing is, back when we did vote this way everywhere, you knew who the winners were by the time the 10 o'clock news came on. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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And the "hanging chads".  _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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One more thing:  One simple way to ensure one person visits their polling place to vote once per election. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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what does that even mean? like, is there just commented out text in the code with the words of the anthem? . | |||
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In person voting is the only way to insure election integrity. A software engineer is going to have political leanings, no way around that. Even if you found a coder with no political leanings there's always the pesky little thing called "bugs". | |||
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They do, but only when more explicit, “As usual the Feds are long on providing mandates, but short on providing money to implement said mandates.” Some states are no different. | |||
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I like the inked finger. Electronic voting is only good for cheating. | |||
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years… |
I love computers I love technology I love gadgets and gizmos B U T . . . Some things are better the SIMPLER they are. As others above noted, get back to basics. Paper ballots, one day voting, absentee ballots ONLY for legit reasons. On a side note- I saw a headline the Boeing orphaned astronauts would be “voting from space”. How exactly is that going to work given the voting laws? Pretty sure they are not on a USPS delivery route. It may suck, but sorry no votes for you. Count every legally cast vote, period. What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???  | |||
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Paper only! __________________________ The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not for target shooting … it’s there so that you and I can protect our homes and our children and and our families and our lives. And it’s also there as fundamental check on government tyranny. Sen Ted Cruz | |||
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My bet is that the Russian malware coders did that to have suspicion pointed elsewhere. | |||
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WRONG: "The Feds leave everyone else short on money." God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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