The big lie of the 2020 US presidential election is that it’s a “big lie” to talk of voter fraud. Or that claims of fraud are “baseless”.
While it’s very unlikely that the election was literally “stolen”, there is plenty of evidence of some level of corruption. But if the Biden administration really has nothing to hide, then it should act like it.
Instead, it’s doing very much the opposite.
Top officials at a U.S. federal cybersecurity agency are urging a judge not to authorize at this time the release of a report that analyzes Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Georgia, arguing doing so could assist hackers trying to “undermine election security.”
This sounds an awful lot like a tacit admission that the machines can be hacked. Something the Establishment has repeatedly denied.
Far from “safe and secure”, it seems that electronic voting machines are vulnerable indeed.
The report discusses “potential vulnerabilities in Dominion ImageCast X ballot marking devices,” or electronic voting devices, according to the government.
While CISA supports public disclosure of any vulnerabilities and associated mitigation measures with election equipment, allowing the release of the report at this point “increases the risk that malicious actors may be able to exploit any vulnerabilities and threaten election security,” government lawyers said in a Feb. 10 filing in the case.
The case was brought in 2017 by good-government groups and voters who say the lack of paper ballots undermines the voting process.
This is the fundamental problem that has long been pointed out in relation to electronic voting. Paper ballots at least leave a, well, paper trail. Alterations or interference can be checked (ideally). With an electronic system, the file is the paper trail. If the file is adulterated, there’s nothing else to prove what it was beforehand.
CISA officials want to review the information in the report and help Dominion resolve the vulnerabilities identified before the report is released. They said they weren’t able to provide a date by which they’ll be finished.
If there are vulnerabilities, why are the machines so widely used?
Plaintiffs, including the Coalition for Good Governance, also support the release of the report, David Cross, one of their lawyers, confirmed to The Epoch Times.
The plaintiffs said in a filing before a copy was sent to CISA that the agency should get a copy and begin its evaluation process, but that the evaluation “should not unreasonably delay the public disclosure of the report, which must be promptly disclosed to Georgia state and county election officials, and filed on the public docket, so that public officials can secure the upcoming May primary elections.”
The Epoch Times
Anyone would think they didn’t want the vulnerabilities identified and rectified before the elections.
None of this helps allay the widespread concerns of many Americans that their votes may be compromised. Nor will it do anything to put to bed suspicions of fraud in the 2020 election.
Was there widespread fraud? It depends what you mean by “widespread”: if you mean that there was a concerted conspiracy that “stole” the election, almost certainly not. But if you mean that there was some level of at least low-level voter fraud across the country, then there is plenty of evidence that that is absolutely true. There’s too much evidence — which is not the same as “proof”, of course — of everything from postal workers stealing or destroying ballots to malfeasance with voting machines to deny that there is at least a possibility of fraud in US elections.
The American polity will never be anything like “healed” until at least the American people can have full confidence in their voting processes.
Right now, the complete dog’s breakfast that is the US voting system shouldn’t inspire confidence in anyone. Keeping the American people in the dark only makes it worse.