This is important because if the evaluation illustrates an ability for the machines to impact the vote tabulation it calls into question ALL elections using the same machines
No no no, this is likely a TRAP! I believe the Dominion story is 100% real, which means they would have gone to great lengths to avoid detection. It'd be the biggest scandal in world history.
Why Its A Trap:
The software likely works something like this:
Dominion machines likely report to a central sever on boot and at regular intervals... say 30 minutes.
The majority of the time the server probably responds with a simple ack
However the server COULD respond with a special code that specifies vote weightings valid ONLY for that time interval
IF I'm Right About All That ... and the Dominion people would be at least as clever as me, it would MEAN
Without the magic server response the machine will operate normally.
Even if the machine was unplugged and isolated it would behave normally since the magic server response is only valid for 1 time interval
The only hope you'd have to catch this would be to review the source code, which Dominion is explicit about not sharing
And WORST of all... once its shown that the machine tabulates votes accurately during this audit, it will be spun to disprove the entire Dominion scandal!
Even if you have access to a Dominion machine, its certain that Dominion has since pushed an update that makes it operate normally. And if you somehow unplugged a machine on election day, and that machine had the fraudulent code, and its been isolated since, you'd then need Dominion to provide source code that compiles down to the same hash as that machine... which they would never do.
It's possible to use a dissembler to backward engineer the code, but I don't know if there is enough time. Game hackers do it all to figure out where to inject code to manipulate the game.
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This is important because if the evaluation illustrates an ability for the machines to impact the vote tabulation it calls into question ALL elections using the same machines
No no no, this is likely a TRAP! I believe the Dominion story is 100% real, which means they would have gone to great lengths to avoid detection. It'd be the biggest scandal in world history.
Why Its A Trap:
The software likely works something like this:
IF I'm Right About All That ... and the Dominion people would be at least as clever as me, it would MEAN
Even if you have access to a Dominion machine, its certain that Dominion has since pushed an update that makes it operate normally. And if you somehow unplugged a machine on election day, and that machine had the fraudulent code, and its been isolated since, you'd then need Dominion to provide source code that compiles down to the same hash as that machine... which they would never do.
It's possible to use a dissembler to backward engineer the code, but I don't know if there is enough time. Game hackers do it all to figure out where to inject code to manipulate the game.