What does 'stole the election software [and] uploaded it to thumbdrives' mean? Why would you need to upload it to a thumbdrive if you already stole it? Why does this sound like hacking in a 90s straight-to-video movie? What is he implying was DONE with that stolen software?
Yeah, he's full of shit. The Diebold machines at least (also sometimes called "Premiere Elections")
are trivial to fuck with, but the trick is doing it without being caught and doing it in a way that makes the altered changes seem legitimate while also altering it enough to make the desired difference.
Encryption, and even simple password-protection, of data on the ballot scanner machines wasn't even supported (much less mandated) until mid 2007, and most counties that used these machines didn't bother turning it on anyway.
The thing about that is it doesn't actually matter nearly as much as it sounds like it should. "OH MY GOD YOU CAN CHANGE VOTE COUNTS!" Sure can, one machine at a time, if you can manage it all without being observed doing it, without fucking up the numbers (there are checks -- the system that collects the tallied ballots know how many were issued at each polling place, and if the total votes don't add up to the known count, it will reject the batch and require manual count), and without making the numbers too unbelievable (i.e. 100% for one candidate and 0% for another).
And that's per polling place. Think you're gonna be able to do that to
every machine from
every polling place in an entire county? lolno, but let's say you do manage it because of a vast conspiracy by hundreds of polling place workers, supervisors, third-party contractors, etc. Let's also say you got the numbers exactly perfect and didn't trigger any checks because of mismatches. That's neat. Good for you. You've changed
one county's numbers. Is your conspiracy big enough to do that everywhere that uses these machines? Without getting caught or fucking any details up?
As a career IT bovine, it always pains me to say that technology isn't the solution to a given problem, but in this case it really isn't. Encryption legitimately doesn't matter here. Simple checks and comparisons done at several steps along the process make it so unlikely a person or group could meaningfully sway the numbers from these electronic voting machines that it's honestly not worth investigating unless you've caught someone popping open the little compartment (with tamper tape on it) where the memory card lives that stores the results.
There's really no other way to muck with them. Those machines don't even have network ports, only modems, and those aren't connected to a phone line until polls close and it's time for each machine to phone the results home to the "server" that collects all the data.
They demonstrated in 2020 how to steal an election -- mail-in ballot shenanigans. There were practically no controls, checks or verifications in place for them in 2020. No one batted an eye at paper ballots literally showing up in orderly stacks in big boxes from car trunks at midnight on election day. It wasn't even challenged when precincts reported receiving more votes than they had registered voters.
They didn't bother fucking with the voting machines. It's too easy to accidentally miss a detail, it requires more people to pull off (any secret known by two people is no longer a secret), and it takes just one whistleblower with proof to blow the whole thing open. Adding a thousand extra votes for Biden via mail-in ballot though? Trivial. Just two people can arrange that and unless someone witnesses it or digs really deep, there's no real way to prove it.
Once again, fatty's an idiot who got it wrong.
