By that I mean, when I used to work on Dominion machines for my local Board of Elections (I maintained, programmed elections, tested, and was first point of contact on Election Day in my county for problems), I was trained on the use of the machines and the software by a guy at Dominion, who told me that the software was written by "a couple of interns in Bosnia or something."
Part of me tends to believe that, as under normal circumstances (and all this stuff went in due to some handicap-accessible voting law George W. Bush signed around 2004), private companies have to be the lowest bidder on government contracts in order to get the contracts, and therefore have to cut costs where they can, so not hiring a team of American software developers who each want $175,000/year with great benefits packages makes sense. The software was also awful, had no regard for user experience, even compared to Microsoft's offerings, and there was the occasional non-English word left in the interface. I remember seeing the word "escucheon" a lot. I'm still not sure what it means. I think it's French, which makes even less sense.
But, if you believe Dominion has lied about everything the whole time - and I wouldn't fault you for believing that, not in the least - then this very well may be true. And maybe Gates is so rusty from not actually having programmed anything since the BASIC they used on the Apple I in, like, 1973, perhaps it is his code and that's why it's so terrible. But I doubt it. At the very least, he farmed it out.
However, Occam's Razor is still a thing, and there are way easier ways to commit the vote fraud we saw. For instance, the Dominion machines in our county did not connect to the internet. However, we could have messed with the vote totals by photocopying a ballot filled out with the candidates we wanted to win, opening up the side of a machine, and feeding the photocopied ballot repeatedly, grabbing it before it fell into the basket that the ballots fall into. This also involves breaking several laws, breaking your security seals, falsifying paperwork, and breaking your chain of custody. But it also works when your local Board of Elections is as corrupt as the ones in question. And none of it requires a conspiracy by which malicious code is developed in secret by Bill Gates and sent over the internet in the dead of night.
Don't let people like Ruby Freeman walk free because of some unfounded rumor that Bill Gates actually sat down and wrote software for the first time since Nixon was president.
What chain-of-custody?
There were HUGE lapses in the of chain-of-custody in the Nov. 2020 election, including all or almost all of the mail-in ballots, ballot dumps in the middle of the night, etc.
Depends on what you believe.
By that I mean, when I used to work on Dominion machines for my local Board of Elections (I maintained, programmed elections, tested, and was first point of contact on Election Day in my county for problems), I was trained on the use of the machines and the software by a guy at Dominion, who told me that the software was written by "a couple of interns in Bosnia or something."
Part of me tends to believe that, as under normal circumstances (and all this stuff went in due to some handicap-accessible voting law George W. Bush signed around 2004), private companies have to be the lowest bidder on government contracts in order to get the contracts, and therefore have to cut costs where they can, so not hiring a team of American software developers who each want $175,000/year with great benefits packages makes sense. The software was also awful, had no regard for user experience, even compared to Microsoft's offerings, and there was the occasional non-English word left in the interface. I remember seeing the word "escucheon" a lot. I'm still not sure what it means. I think it's French, which makes even less sense.
But, if you believe Dominion has lied about everything the whole time - and I wouldn't fault you for believing that, not in the least - then this very well may be true. And maybe Gates is so rusty from not actually having programmed anything since the BASIC they used on the Apple I in, like, 1973, perhaps it is his code and that's why it's so terrible. But I doubt it. At the very least, he farmed it out.
However, Occam's Razor is still a thing, and there are way easier ways to commit the vote fraud we saw. For instance, the Dominion machines in our county did not connect to the internet. However, we could have messed with the vote totals by photocopying a ballot filled out with the candidates we wanted to win, opening up the side of a machine, and feeding the photocopied ballot repeatedly, grabbing it before it fell into the basket that the ballots fall into. This also involves breaking several laws, breaking your security seals, falsifying paperwork, and breaking your chain of custody. But it also works when your local Board of Elections is as corrupt as the ones in question. And none of it requires a conspiracy by which malicious code is developed in secret by Bill Gates and sent over the internet in the dead of night.
Don't let people like Ruby Freeman walk free because of some unfounded rumor that Bill Gates actually sat down and wrote software for the first time since Nixon was president.
What chain-of-custody?
There were HUGE lapses in the of chain-of-custody in the Nov. 2020 election, including all or almost all of the mail-in ballots, ballot dumps in the middle of the night, etc.