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

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.

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.

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Originally posted by Milliron:
...As usual, the Feds are big on mandates but short on money to implement them...

Lol. The "Feds" and "short on money" don't belong in the same sentence.

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Originally posted by Milliron:
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.

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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Originally posted by uvahawk:
It may take longer to count and report but has much more integrity than the various electronic devices currently in use.

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.

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I much prefer the old punch tickets that we used when I was young.

And the "hanging chads".

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
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.

One more thing:



One simple way to ensure one person visits their polling place to vote once per election.

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A coder also wrote the Ukrainian national anthem into the database software.

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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Originally posted by Beancooker:
I much prefer the old punch tickets that we used when I was young.

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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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Milliron:
...As usual, the Feds are big on mandates but short on money to implement them...

Lol. The "Feds" and "short on money" don't belong in the same sentence.

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.

I like the inked finger. Electronic voting is only good for cheating.

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.

Paper only!

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Originally posted by radioman:

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A coder also wrote the Ukrainian national anthem into the database software.

what does that even mean?

My bet is that the Russian malware coders did that to have suspicion pointed elsewhere.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Lol. The "Feds" and "short on money" don't belong in the same sentence.

WRONG:
"The Feds leave everyone else short on money."