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basedkekistani 8 points ago +8 / -0

I can't find any connection between Avid and Election Source (The software that glitched in MI). I also couldn't find any data on the owners of Election Source.

I also can't find any connection of Avid to any kind of voting machines or software. Avid's focus seems to be in the audio/video multimedia space, which would make election stuff a weird offshoot.

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Vadernocturnus 7 points ago +7 / -0

They are the creators of Pro Tools. Industry standard recording software. Surprised to hear their name. But would be a competent company in software I assume, They code plug-ins that mimic analog gear.

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firestorm117 5 points ago +5 / -0

Here is a summary of what I've found so far reading through the notes in the tweet and the company themselves:

Fienstein's husband owns 60% controlling interest in AVID Technologies, inc. AVID Technologies is known in the professional audio and video production scene (I think I remember them from my Film studies degree), so it would make sense that Fienstein who is from California would have a controlling interest in them. However they do happen to have vole tallying software called "Avid Leaderplus". Which is extremely strange for a software company that is focused on music and film industry software. whats more is it seems that it uses a network conneciton and does connect to a server for some reason. These latter parts I'm not exactly sure why it would, but I'm also not exactly sure what the chain of custody is for election counting since apparently "Flash drives getting lost" is a thing that is happening with these "votes" so who the fuck knows

Link for an article on troubleshooting the software, looks like an older version from late 2ks https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/troubleshooting/en266583

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Plazma10 1 point ago +1 / -0

They are very large in broadcast at tv stations. Most newsroom software uses their platform

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firestorm117 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yea, and that makes it very strange that they have software involved in something like this. https://imgur.com/a/XGPhw6H they don't list the Leaderplus as a part of their software line as seen in the screenshot. If you search for it on their website though, you can find articles on it as new as 2018, so it's probably still being supported at the very least. Next thing to verify this would be to see if it's being used like OP in the tweets claims and if so, which locations.

SPEZ: looks like people have identified the software in the trouble areas being something different called "Dominion"