#Politics #Voting #VotingMachines #Republicans #suppression #DOJ #RNC

Marc Elias:

One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@wravoc instead of insulting @froge how about we actually do make things better and let actual facts speak.

• If you're here to just spam my mentions, then please let me know so I can mute this conversation as I got more pressing things than virtual "circlejerking" on my agenda.

#ITsec is garbage because absolute fundamentals are disregarded by highest decisionmakers and regulators to users:

• Neither do people get taught proper #IT nor do they get taught #OpSec, #InfoSec, #ComSec and absolute *#security basics.

Not to mention the fact that we still allow #Govware that is insecure in any configuration like #Windows to not only exist but be sold and used by real public administrations and businesses which oftentimes just pour #DigitalSnakeoil on it and then do a "surprised Pikachu face" when that shit explodes in their face.

• And don't even get folks like @stman started on all the systemic security issues that are unfixable in #amd64, #arm64 et. al. cuz those - alongside the #complexity and #intransparency - are among the reasons why #Germany banned #VotingMachines for good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

How U.S. voting machines work and why they're hard to hack.

A fact check from @abc: https://flip.it/xrQ_EA

For more fact checks, follow @fact-check-ElectionCentral

Fulton County judge tossed lawsuit, determined #Georgia #VotingMachines are secure ahead of #Elections2024 in Friday ruling after some state Republicans argued they were defective, labeling claimed #security risks “purely hypothetical."

Ie, they had no evidence to support their claims, just #GOP fear-mongering & plot to seed the ground so they can unleash a harvest of chaos & distrust should Trump lose.

Not to mention #VoterSuppression.

Ie, the usual #GOP playbook.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4917191-georgia-voting-machines-security/

#USA #Elections #Politics #VotingMachines #Hacking #CyberSecurity #eVoting #DEFCON: "In one sense, it’s the normal course of events: Every August, hackers at the DEF CON conference find security gaps in voting equipment, and every year the long and complex process of fixing them means nothing is implemented until the next electoral cycle.

But Election Day security is under particular scrutiny in 2024. That’s both because of increasing worries that foreign adversaries will figure out how to breach machines, and because President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of widespread fraud in 2020 undermined confidence in the vote among his supporters.

As a result, many in the election security community are bemoaning the fact that no system has been developed to roll out fixes faster and worrying that the security gaps that get identified this year will provide fodder for those who may want to question the results.

“As far as time goes, it is hard to make any real, major, systemic changes, but especially 90 days out from the election,” said Catherine Terranova, one of the organizers of the DEF CON “Voting Village” hacking event. She argued that’s particularly troubling during “an election year like this.”" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/hackers-vulnerabilities-voting-machines-elections-00173668