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August 30th, 2024

stas: (Default)
Friday, August 30th, 2024 09:37 pm
Вот что писала партийная пресса о безопасности выборов и особенно электронных машин в незапамятные времена, каковых старожилы не припомнят:

NYT
Jun 10, 2020

Much of the trouble that plunged Georgia’s voting system into chaos Tuesday was specific to the state, stemming from the rollout of new voting machines and an electronic voter check-in system, which some elections experts had been sounding alarm bells about for months.

Politico
03/28/2019

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is poised to sign a bill to overhaul the state’s voting system with machines that are widely considered vulnerable to hacking.
The new equipment would replace the state’s paperless, electronic machines — technology so risky that a federal judge said last year that its continued use threatened Georgians’ “constitutional interests.” But security researchers say similar risks exist in the new electronic machines that the GOP-led legislature has chosen, which would embed the voter’s choice in a barcode on a slip of paper.
The warnings from cybersecurity experts, election integrity advocates and Georgia Democrats are especially troubling given the abundant warnings from U.S. intelligence leaders that Russia will once again attempt to undermine the presidential election in 2020.
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But the paper ballot is generated by the machine and can thus be corrupted at the source, rendering a meaningful audit impossible.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Aug 7, 2019

Critics of Georgia's new voting system say it fails to protect elections. They're skeptical of Georgia's elections oversight, especially after the close results of November's election for governor between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp, who oversaw his own election as secretary of state at the time.
“We’re paying a premium, millions of dollars, and every cybersecurity person says it can still be hacked,” said Liz Throop, an Atlanta voter who wanted Georgia to rely on paper ballots filled out with a pen.

WaPo
December 23, 2019

As Georgia rolls out new voting machines for 2020, worries about election security persist

Georgia is preparing to roll out 30,000 of the machines in every polling place for its presidential primary in March, replacing a paperless electronic voting system that a federal judge declared insecure and unreliable.

But election security experts said the state’s newest voting machines also remain vulnerable to potential intrusions or malfunctions — and some view the paper records they produce as insufficient if a verified audit of the vote is needed.

Сейчас, конечно, за такое их бы всех забанили везде и завели с полдесятка уголовных дел на каждого, за вмешательство в выборы. В деле партийного пропагандиста своевременность - одно из важнейших умений.
stas: (Default)
Friday, August 30th, 2024 10:31 pm
Judge in Brazil has banned X. Fines will be imposed on anyone using a VPN to access the site.

Заметим, что штрафовать будут бразильцев, а не Маска. Потому что, конечно же, это война с ними, а не с Маском - за их же умы.

Но интересно не это - а то, что, как я понимаю, американская администрация пока что ни словом не отреагировала ни на эту атаку на свободу слова и информации, ни на то же самое со стороны Франции. И понятно, почему - они втайне (не очень хорошо хранимой тайне, конечно) мечтают о том же самом, но народишко пока ещё не готов, поэтому им приходится завидовать и ждать, когда же уже наконец будет можно.