Please provide any news articles regarding any software updates to Dominion machines in the Michigan area. We already know an update was done in Antrim county before the election. Please spread this.
The BASED MEDIA team has been presenting to senators, so this information will get to appropriate parties quickly! Thanks all!
This is a forum post... can’t find the free press article for link... I know this is local (precincts), but it begs the question if Michigan’s ballot as a whole was changed prior to election requiring an “update”
On November 8, 2020 at 3:12 pm, scott s. said: per Detroit Free Press reporting what happened is:
There was a change in the ballot for some precincts. This required updating the Dominion software in the voting machines last month. The county clerk directed that the machines in the affected precincts be updated but did not update the machines in unaffected precincts.
A separate computer program is used to input the tabulated data from each machine and consolidate at the county level for transmission to the Sec of State. The error was that the program could not consolidate machine vote totals when there was different software versions on the voting machines. The reporting suggested the machine totals were stored in a “spreadsheet-like” database. I don’t have any experience with spreadsheets in a production environment, but from what I’ve read they are notorious for being hard to debug and maintain. IMHO it would be better to use a proper relational database that can rely on verifiable SQL queries to extract data for consolidation or other purposes. My guess is that the software was making assumption that a certain column or row corresponded to a specific candidate and race/question.
Thanks! I forwarded your response to the team!