. ES&S
ES&S is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC. In 2014, ES&S was the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the United States, claiming customers in 4,500 localities in 42 states and two U.S. territories. https://www.essvote.com
In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S).
17.7.18 Remote-access software and modems on (ES&S) election equipment 'is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.' https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
In January 2020, the CEOs of the three companies that produce over 80 percent of voting machines in the U.S. – Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic – were grilled by members of Congress over the question of security at the ballot box. https://alethonews.com/2020/11/15/when-does-a-glitch-become-a-coup-its-time-to-regulate-americas-fly-by-night-voting-machine-monopoly/
Nov 2020 - Biden appoints: Peter Neffenger Distinguished Senior Fellow Admiral Peter Neffenger Named as Volunteer for Biden’s Agency Review Team https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/distinguished-senior-fellow-admiral-peter-neffenger-named-as-volunteer-for-bidens-agency-review-team/ - We are pleased to report that GRI Distinguished Senior Fellow, Admiral Peter Neffenger (USCG Ret.), has joined President-Elect Joe Biden’s Agency Review team under the Department of Homeland Security team.
Neffenger trying to distance himself from Dominion(ES&S) On Sunday, Powell cited Neffenger's name while discussing the legal team's accusations against Dominion Voting Systems because he is chairman on the board of directors at Smartmatic, another company that designs electronic voting systems. Smartmatic released a statement clarifying that it is not associated with Dominion Voting Systems, and that in fact "the two companies are competitors in the marketplace." https://www.newsweek.com/who-peter-neffenger-biden-transition-team-member-may-target-trump-lawsuit-1547777
15 Nov 2020: Dominion, Scytl, ES&S, Smartmatic appear to be engaged in engineering election results. https://gnews.org/zh-hans/563993/
ES&S Parent Company: McCarthy Group, LLC Michael R. McCarthy (born August 27, 1951, Hancock, Iowa) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman of the McCarthy Group, LLC, and of McCarthy Capital Corporation,[1] an investment firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, which manages more than US$1 billion in assets. Election Systems & Software is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McCarthy_(businessman)
Office for National Statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinprivatehomesenglandandwalesprovisional/deathsregisteredfrom28december2019to11september2020
Zerohedge:Deaths attributable to dementia and Alzheimer's disease at home are on a major upward trajectory while being down in hospitals, strongly suggesting that more people with life-threatening but treatable diseases are simply avoiding professional medical services for fear of COVID-19 or possibly on fear of violating social distancing measures or travel bans.
The report found that hospital deaths that were dementia-related were down by 40% in England and 25% in Wales.
List of vulnerabilities:
- Alter or erase lists of registered voters.
- Secretly introduce software to flip votes.
- Scramble tabulation systems.
- Knock results-reporting sites offline.
- Erase all recorded votes at the end of voting.
- Delete voter names from the voter roll and electronic poll book.
- Rig direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines to print a voter’s selections correctly on the paper while recording something else on the memory card.
- Access electronic voting systems via the cellular modems used to transmit unofficial results at the end of an election.
- Subvert back-end election management systems—used to program the voting machines and tally votes—and spread malicious code to voting machines through them.
- Design code to bypass pre-election testing and kick in only at the end of an election or under specific conditions—perhaps when a certain candidate appears to be losing—and erase itself afterward.
- Make it produce results with wide margins to avoid triggering automatic manual recounts in states that require them in close elections.
Dominion Voting Systems (ES&S).
In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S had just acquired PES from Diebold and was required to sell off PES by the United States Department of Justice for anti-trust concerns. In June 2010, Dominion acquired Sequoia Voting Systems
D E F C O N 27 - V o t i n g M a c h i n e - H a c k i n g V i l l a g e https://www.wired.com/story/voting-village-results-hacking-decade-old-bugs/ ES&S AutoMARK, used in 28 states in 2018 Premier/Diebold AccuVote-OS used in 26 states.
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/voting-village-report-defcon27.pdf
TheRegister - 17 Aug 2017 Don't panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records
ES&S says it was notified by UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery of the vulnerable database that contained personal information it collected from recent elections in Chicago, Illinois. https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/17/chicago_voter_leak/
