I would say yes, it is normal for any large corporation to issue public statements, because that very often affects market prices, and that is very important for them.
But reading through the statement I fell like it is a load of PR + lawyer talk, calling a lawsuit filed in court a "draft" is just pushing the pdf scan typos and if that is the first thing they address is strange, because the accusations are much more important.
Citing the enormous human effort need is load of BS, I used to work in a company that provides ATM software services for banks, we had very strict code deployment policies, that has multiple checks and external services the ATM talks to, but in the end of the day only three people would need to collaborate to make a software that would apply multiplier on the cash dispenser, a developer, a QA lead and someone from company leads - developer would make changes as required, QA would approve the changes for deployment and publish update and the company lead would need to clear the air (remove other devs, other people that might interfere). The external services would be no wiser that instead of withdrawing 10$ bill it gave you 100$, they would notice only when the ATM would be unexpectedly empty and that would trigger investigation, in real life this would be complicated benefits are small as ATMS don't hold enormous amounts of cash and risk is super high, same as chance of getting caught, I believe that is the only reasons why nobody, to my knowledge, has ever tried it. I would apply the same logic to the voting machines - the system is fully closed/proprietary, it talks with external services, but to my understanding the core dev team for Dominion is tiny (the technicians, that set it up/manage settings/on site error fixing don't know the code, they work off a manual mostly), so a rogue core dev team with help from upper management could do it with small human resources and nobody from outside would notice, especially if the machines do auto over-the-air updates, as I understand they do, because there was some election day updates that bricked some of the devices, these last minute updates make things even more suspicious.
Any proprietary/closed system that calls itself "the gold standard for transparent and accountable [whatever]" is a load of BS or maybe they talk about different gold, especially after they close their office and ask employees to remove the company from linked in. Linux Kernel is the gold standard for transparent and accountable OS kernel - I would agree to that, but a closed system is as transparent as brick wall.
I don't know about their ties and history, but that is all what PR and lawyers would say, I would have to believe that Sidney Powell didn't just come up with random shit, so it is mostly ones word against others, the recounts that produces different results and the lost USB drives for transferring results would have been a good point to adress, especially since they claim that every action is registered on paper etc.
I will leave with a question - what is the point of this system - if everything is also produced on paper it not the environment and if the result can't be collected on the same day it is not the speed, just vote with paper and concentrate on paper counters.
I would say yes, it is normal for any large corporation to issue public statements, because that very often affects market prices, and that is very important for them.
But reading through the statement I fell like it is a load of PR + lawyer talk, calling a lawsuit filed in court a "draft" is just pushing the pdf scan typos and if that is the first thing they address is strange, because the accusations are much more important.
Citing the enormous human effort need is load of BS, I used to work in a company that provides ATM software services for banks, we had very strict code deployment policies, that has multiple checks and external services the ATM talks to, but in the end of the day only three people would need to collaborate to make a software that would apply multiplier on the cash dispenser, a developer, a QA lead and someone from company leads - developer would make changes as required, QA would approve the changes for deployment and publish update and the company lead would need to clear the air (remove other devs, other people that might interfere). The external services would be no wiser that instead of withdrawing 10$ bill it gave you 100$, they would notice only when the ATM would be unexpectedly empty and that would trigger investigation, in real life this would be complicated benefits are small as ATMS don't hold enormous amounts of cash and risk is super high, same as chance of getting caught, I believe that is the only reasons why nobody, to my knowledge, has ever tried it. I would apply the same logic to the voting machines - the system is fully closed/proprietary, it talks with external services, but to my understanding the core dev team for Dominion is tiny (the technicians, that set it up/manage settings/on site error fixing don't know the code, they work off a manual mostly), so a rogue core dev team with help from upper management could do it with small human resources and nobody from outside would notice, especially if the machines do auto over-the-air updates, as I understand they do, because there was some election day updates that bricked some of the devices, these last minute updates make things even more suspicious.
Any proprietary/closed system that calls itself "the gold standard for transparent and accountable [whatever]" is a load of BS or maybe they talk about different gold, especially after they close their office and ask employees to remove the company from linked in. Linux Kernel is the gold standard for transparent and accountable OS kernel - I would agree to that, but a closed system is as transparent as brick wall.
I don't know about their ties and history, but that is all what PR and lawyers would say, I would have to believe that Sidney Powell didn't just come up with random shit, so it is mostly ones word against others, the recounts that produces different results and the lost USB drives for transferring results would have been a good point to adress, especially since they claim that every action is registered on paper etc.
I will leave with a question - what is the point of this system - if everything is also produced on paper it not the environment and if the result can't be collected on the same day it is not the speed, just vote with paper and concentrate on paper counters.