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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (vice.com)
Kim Zetter, reporting for Motherboard: The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company
installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them. In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in April and obtained recently by Motherboard, Election Systems and Software acknowledged that it had "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software ... to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006," which was installed on the election-management system ES&S sold them.
The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees -- including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software," the spokesperson said. ES&S did not respond on Monday to questions from Motherboard, and it's not clear why the company changed its response between February and April. Lawmakers, however, have subpoena powers that can compel a company to hand over documents or provide sworn testimony on a matter lawmakers are investigating, and a statement made to lawmakers that is later proven false can have greater consequence for a company than one made to reporters.
The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees -- including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software," the spokesperson said. ES&S did not respond on Monday to questions from Motherboard, and it's not clear why the company changed its response between February and April. Lawmakers, however, have subpoena powers that can compel a company to hand over documents or provide sworn testimony on a matter lawmakers are investigating, and a statement made to lawmakers that is later proven false can have greater consequence for a company than one made to reporters.
You've never actually voted in the USA have you? They generally do verify your identity at the poles when you go to vote.
No, they don't. They verify that the name you gave them is a registered voter. And that's all they do. No check to make sure the name you gave them matches.
It's a well known open secret that liberals routinely bus "voters" around on election day thanks to the fact that all you need to vote is know the registered voter list. Combine that with refusing to remove dead people from the voter roles and - well, you should be able to figure this out.
If not then FUCK YOU for being a fascist cockgobbler.
Even when proposals are made to require ID and to make it free, or free to those who say they can't afford the nominal fee, the Democrats say it's racist.
Apparently it's too onerous for someone to go and get an ID, and that it's disproportionately onerous to certain races. Yet they're perfectly fine with requiring every person to buy health insurance. And they're perfectly fine with requiring extensive background checks for purchasing firearms.
Whatever your position on the matter is, it's clear that the Democratic party's position is entirely duplicitous.
The DNC is fighting to keep dead people on the voter rolls. They're fighting to keep people who live in other states on the rolls in their former state.
They don't want you purging the voter rolls of people who have died or people who have moved to another state. They don't want you verifying that the person voting is the person they claim to be. Why?
Require an ID to vote. Make it free or cheap to get (and free for anyone who bitches and moans, I guess). If someone tries to vote without one, give them a provisional ballot and count it only after they satisfy ID requirements. It's not hard. We have the infrastructure in pace to do it (DMV offices, post offices, any place you can register to vote, etc.). Yet some people are against taking basic steps to secure the integrity of our elections. The SAME people who have been screaming for over 18 months that the election was "hacked".
It has been disbanded recently, and I am not aware of any reports from this committy. Why? I think I can make a pretty good guess.
The states involved refused to cooperate and refused to provide the basic information necessary to conduct an investigation.
That's why.