TX went through and RFP process to find a new voting system vendor. Dominion was one that submitted a response, but they were rejected because it didn't meet all of the RFP features that TX was looking for. This is not unusual.
Their finding reported that votes could be changed by outside players undetected, either NO audit trail (Hart) or erasable or changeable audit trail (ES&S, Dominion, etc.) so no evidence of vote changing can be found
No, the president and everyone else knew about this critical flaw since 2012 and the only thing Trump bothered to do was hedge before the 2020 election. Sounds legit.
I read through several of the reports from the last submittal by Dominion - their v5.5A version. They identified concerns about difficulties in setting up the demonstration system. The fact that machines had an ethernet port (citing that they could not ensure that precincts would not plug them in). They also thought that the application logging was insufficient. For example, not recording notifications of unauthorized USB devices being plugged in. These were recorded in the system log, but Election managers would not be able to find it easily.
Trump did do something... He formed CISA under the DHS. I did some research on the head of CISA and he seems very legit - even after Trump fired him last week.
AWS hosts the machines all over the world to reduce latency and to allow redundancy for companies. If I have my application hosted in CA and Japan, then if an earthquake hits CA, my application will still run because it's housed in Japan
@NoobDad What I got from the last show is that he was trying to evaluate the denials for language that he might be able to ascertain hidden meaning in the language that they chose to use. I am guessing he was taking this from a legal perspective. With as quickly that these refutations were posted, I'm not sure we can assume that they were put together by a lawyer. It could have been a nerd like me.
Probably would have been a lot of pushback from Amazon if the government was trying to seize servers from one of their data centers. It sounds like the servers (if they were seized) belongd to a Scytl data center.
The initial source of the Scytl story was a Tweet that was found in German that said that Scytl was being raided in Frankfurt. That's all it took to get the rumor mill going. The Army has denied it. Scytl has denied it saying that they don't have offices or servers in Frankfurt.
@james j Russell Ramsland signed an affidavit as part of the Lin Wood Georgia appeal, but it was rejected for standing, but I'm assuming they're appealing.
