A federal judge is being urged to release a report that, despite the secrecy surrounding it, appears to indicate there are potential flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment used in Georgia.
“The public deserves to know the context of J. Alex Halderman’s claims and his testimony regarding the 2020 election,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said last week in calling for the document to be released, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Georgia voters face an extreme risk that [ballot marking device]-based attacks could manipulate their individual votes and alter election outcomes,” Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor, said about the report last year, according to the Daily Beast.
In its reporting, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has indicated that the report, completed last year, describes how someone could hack the system to change votes, without saying whether or not this was ever accomplished.
Halderman — exploring the world of possibilities — said malicious software could be installed on voting touchscreens to change votes from one candidate to another. Votes could also be altered through QR codes used by scanners, he said, without indicating that this had been done.
The report is part of a lawsuit that seeks to change Georgia’s system for voting. More importantly, it is a piece of the wider discussion about potential election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
To date, no one has produced any evidence or documentation that proves the machines were tampered with in 2020. Dominion, which was the target of multiple post-election allegations, has fought back, suing several of those who claimed its machines were part of an election fraud conspiracy.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is considering releasing a redacted version of the report and said she is irked that the report has turned into a “political football,” according to the Journal-Constitution.
“I’m unhappy with the political treatment of the report,” Totenberg said last week. “The entire purpose of having hearings was to maximize transparency but at the same time trying to be mindful of the risks involved of disclosure.”
“I don’t want to have somebody saying, ‘We would have released the full report but for Judge Totenberg,’” she continued.
On Monday, Totenberg asked Georgia election officials and plaintiffs suing over election security to outline by Wednesday how they believe the report should be released, according to the Journal-Constitution.
“I want people to understand the general concerns … without giving anyone a road map to hacking or intruding on the system or manipulating it,” Totenberg said.
One option is to send the full report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, while a more limited version goes to the public.
Raffensperger in the past has said the system of recounts and audits would disclose any attempt to rig an election.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has called on Raffensperger to review the expert’s report and ensure voting machines are safe.
“Now that Gov. Kemp publicly called him out for failing to comply with his duties to address those vulnerabilities and ignoring the report since last summer, he’s desperate to point the finger at others,” said David Cross, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “But he made the decision many months ago not to address the report, and he’s accountable to voters for that deliberate dereliction.”
“It’s really concerning that the Georgia secretary of state and Dominion are kind of putting their head in the sand,” said Susan Greenhalgh, an election security consultant for plaintiffs suing over Georgia’s voting system, according to the Journal-Constitution. “Common sense would say you would want to be able to evaluate the claims and then take appropriate action, and they’re not doing any of that.”
Although all the details of Halderman’s report remain confidential, the outlines have been made public.
“It is important to recognize the possibility that nefarious actors already have discovered the same problems I detail in my report and are preparing to exploit them in future elections,” Halderman wrote in a September statement.
He said that the possibility exists for manipulation either at a polling place or by hacking into the election system’s computers, but indicated he has seen no evidence that this was done.
Raffensperger has criticized the report.
“The smoke and mirrors techniques of Professor Halderman and the plaintiffs in this case does not serve Georgia voters well,” Raffensperger said.
via westernjournal
Judge May Release Bombshell Report on Dominion Voting Machines in Georgia
Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Halderman stated that a software glitch during the unofficial vote tally was not caused by fraud, but rather by human error, and said the conspiracy theory that a supercomputer was used to switch votes from Trump to Biden was “nonsense”.
Trump lost. And it wasn’t even close.
If there was no fraud, why are you liberals afraid of a forensic audit? If there is nothing going on, liberals should be happy to let it be proven that everything is legit. Instead, liberals are doing their best to stop all audit(s) especially in the swing states.
Hi John, giving out personal voting data to unqualified far right “auditors” is a violation of numerous privacy laws.
Besides every recount and audit shows that Trump lost, and it wasn’t even close. Best of like in your stages of grief.
When they do a forensic audit they are going into the personal privacy data. They are looking into the ballots see how many votes were changed or how many times certain ballots were repeatedly ran thru that were for Bite ME!!!!!!!!
Bro, I already told you – nobody cares about you fringe minority terrorists. In addition to hating AMerica you people are by far the biggest sore loser crybabies in history. Cry harder.
ONE I AM NOT YOUR BRO. Two There is now way in HELL all 8 swing states flipped in the matter of hours. Trump had Commanding leads before counting was down for the night. Detroit had huge ballot drop offs at 4AM. Atlanta they were having the ballots tabulated at the State Farm Arena when suddenly a supposed water main broke and had to evacuate the area were the ballots were being counted. Certain people stayed back and pulled out a whole bunch of boxes filled with ballots and ran those ballots. Atlanta DPW never received any alarms for any water main breaks in the area. That is way to convenient.
hahahahhha
After a year of losing literally every recount, court case and audit all showing the exact same thing, do you seriously think anyone with functioning brain cells believes your snowflake fairy tales about losing the election?
Cry harder baby snowflake. The first stage of grief is denial, and you have a long, long road ahead of you.
You want to overturn a presidential election that wasn’t even close over nothing but “feelings”
Like you can’t be any bigger of an entitled sore loser crybaby. Seriously.
“Hi John, giving out personal voting data to unqualified far right “auditors” is a violation of numerous privacy laws.”
Talk about weak gruel. “We can’t investigate because that’s illegal.”
What nonsense.
“Hi John, giving out personal voting data to unqualified far right “auditors” is a violation of numerous privacy laws.”
–Not ‘far Right”
–Not ”personal voting data” but rather technical aspects of Dominion software
–Other than that, astute response!
Hey Johnny, there was no personal data given to “far right” auditors. You must be drinking the kool aid that the liberal news is feeding you because in the swing states that have done forensic audits, there is overwhelming evidence of impropriety with democrat election workers and officials and Dominion election machines. Also there are videos that show massive ballot harvesting occuring. One instance shows the same person on 53 occasions was stuffing handfuls of ballots into ballot boxes. All done late at night.
How are things for the area and state that you live in since FJB was placed into office? No inflation? Low gas prices? Low unemp!oyment? NOT! If FJB won by 80m votes, why is his approval rating the worst of any president ever. How’s that socialism working out for you? For me, not a bit of grief but for democrats its still full blown TDS. Midterms are in a few months so we see just how long you liberals will be holding this nation hostage…..
”Halderman stated that a software glitch during the unofficial vote tally was not caused by fraud, but rather by human error, and said the conspiracy theory that a supercomputer was used to switch votes from Trump to Biden was “nonsense”.”
Well, that settles it because people NEVER lie or have an agenda.
But I jest. Dominion software has not be forensically audited, and they’ve sued anyone who intimated their equipment was less than perfect. Only true believers would……believe this given the dozens of hours of sworn testimony that Democrat operatives engaged in glaring shortcuts and cheating. Biden’s ”Justice Department’s” response has been to criminally prosecute soviet style anyone resisting their single allowable narrative.
This is how totalitarian countries form. Anyone who believes the Biden administration hasn’t read much history.
Hi Mikey
It has been settled. Far right crybaby Republicans have lost literally every single court case, recount audit and any other bogus claim they made about voter fraud.
In fact, my favorite one was the Arizona Audit where crybaby Trump whined so much he got the Arizona taxpayers to pay millions of dollars to unqualified far right “auditors” to find out that Trump lost by even more than originally planned.
You brought your own far right unqualified refs, and YOU STILL LOST.
You literally can’t be any bigger of a loser.
Still drinking that kool aid I see…you are dead wrong about the AZ audit. You need to recheck your “facts” about the audit because they are in the process right now of recalling the states electors because of the amount and types of fraud that was found. PA also!
Additionally, if Dominion was so confident in their machines and software, why are they trying to stop the forensic audits. I was a Mainframe Computer Analyst and Programmer for 25 years and can tell you unequivocally that ANY computer system can be hacked into and manipulated. That is a proven fact!
It’s already been demonstrated the machines can be hacked. Input can be altered, in fact it’s done on a regular basis with readily available Microsoft data base tools. It’s also known the security software on many of these are not kept up.to Daye and election officials have very lax security practices. Any cyber professional knows the systems are easily accessed when attached to the network.
There are hours on YT of sworn testimony citing glaring democratic cheating. So far, Dominion has resisted any forensic examination by suing.
Dominion and its cousins are the elephants in the room.
My prediction is the truth will come out eventually that there election was stolen, but ”independent” fact-checkers working for Pfizer and the government will contend the truth is ”misinformation.” This is how the Dems roll.
Whenever I hear the word misinformation I think of the truth being censored
STACY ABRAMS WAS PAID 1 MILLION DOLLARS TO SAY, NOTHING TO SEE HERE! TRUMP CALLED OUT THE STATES OF FRAUD AND HE WAS RIGHT AGAIN! GOD BLESS THE USA!