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Meatball2112 48 points ago +49 / -1

No. He states in his analysis that the software is NOT open source on the machines

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DrCowboyPresident 86 points ago +86 / -0

I love proprietary NWO Big Tech companies running my elections in a black box!

So awesome! Yeah!

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Lunatic_Fringe_PhD 51 points ago +51 / -0

Bro, you can trust them because they're owned by some of our richest politicians.

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PhantomShield72 14 points ago +14 / -0

Sweet! Those are the best ones to have in charge of it all!

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Dirk_Diggler 33 points ago +33 / -0

It's funny, other than fuckery, what the fuck would be "proprietary" for tabulation? It's a fucking sorting and adding machine, there shouldn't be any "black magic" lines of code to sort and add, it should be straight forward.

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lake-koshkonong 33 points ago +33 / -0

Correct. Why do these machines even have an option for fractional voting or making two of Candidate A's votes only count as 1.5 vote, etc.

Imagine if banking software ran this way. You'd log into your bank, deposit $2000, but oops, now you only have $1500 and another account holder got the other $500. Whoops!

The media is gaslighting that "glitches are normal" but this is simple counting software. If glitches were this normal, no one would ever use online banking.

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Cheesemaker 20 points ago +20 / -0

Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a vote here. And over time they add up to a lot.

I'm just talking about fractions of a vote here, but we do it from a much bigger election and we do it a couple of million times.

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_useful_idiot_ 16 points ago +17 / -1

I firmly believe that someone who finished freshman year in a computer science degree could make a vote tallying application. Its literally just incrementing like 5 variables.

spez: typo

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soMuchWinning 7 points ago +8 / -1

Probably because there was customer demand for it. Then the source code can stay the same and the users can adjust the fractional percentage to what ever they “need”. The company can say “Hey, we had nothing to do with it, talk to whomever configured it.”

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Abovethefray 6 points ago +6 / -0

I've been on that lake... my uncle has a 100 year old cabin there... good catfish! The smaller ones, anyway.

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FraudInsurance 3 points ago +3 / -0

For security reasons you might want to keep encryption methods secret.

...but that's exactly why the ties to the establishment are extremely suspect.

"Don't worry about us hacking the bank servers, we're just in close contact with the people who built them + set the password."

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T__X 22 points ago +22 / -0

This is something to fix via legislature: voting software MUST be open source.

Updates to software must be publically published at least X-number of days/weeks before being uploaded to any computers/machines used during election.

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ImWithHearse 6 points ago +6 / -0

Better yet just use the blockchain. Nobody owns the software, the network, or the ledger data.

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WildSauce 3 points ago +3 / -0

Can't a blockchain be controlled by anybody who has 51%+ of the computing power on the blockchain network? My only problem with blockchains is that somebody like the NSA (or China) might be able to seize control through brute computing power, without anybody knowing.

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the__rev 1 point ago +1 / -0

$LINK

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goodatlife123 1 point ago +1 / -0

Lol

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Proda 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well Trump can reverse engineer it...