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Can An Election Be Stolen? – You Bet

Posted on the 14 November 2012 by Eowyn @DrEowyn

“It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” (Josef Stalin)

In 2004,  a computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testified under oath, before the  Ohio State legislature, that he wrote a program to rig elections. This program would flip the total vote from the real winner to the candidate who had been pre-selected to win by the electronic vote counting machines.

Apparently from testimony following the 2004 election, this computer programmer makes clear UNDER OATH, of how easily it would be for an organization, be it Democrat or Republican, to “flip” the election outcome via a rather simple code. – a code this programmer himself easily manufactured.  This is further confirmed at the 3:10 of the video where the programmer notes how the entire system can be “hacked” to control the final voting outcome.

Yesterday, I spoke with a friend who is a software programmer for several state lottery systems (a super-secure operation as you can imagine) and asked him about the safety of electronic voter machines.  He told me privately that the code within those machines is simple and very basic…easily hacked and are insecure to intrusion.  Further, he confirmed that it is easy to write a code that produces a desired outcome then erases itself later making it impossible to trace… a predictable outcome for electronic voter machines.

Well, we sorta knew that when they first came out 10 years ago or so when they replaced paper ballots… duh.

~ Hardnox

 


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