After their analysis, Russell's firm started to research. here are prior reports that also reported on voting machine vulnerabilities.
Everest Report - https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~butler/pubs/everest.pdf
C-Span Panel: ICIT - https://www.c-span.org/video/?417203-1/discussion-focuses-cybersecurity-us-voting-systems
Matt Blaze Testimony before US House Committee https://cs.georgetown.edu/news-story/matt-blaze-testifies-on-the-capitol-hill/
ES&S Security Test Report (2017) - https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/ess/evs5210/ess5210-sec.pdf

I just wish someone knew about this and made the argument *before* the election results made it convenient. We do have people for that; people in power with a stake in it who were either powerless or asleep at the wheel.

@Zuluzeit They were!

The Everest Report is dated 12/7/2007

Asleep at the wheel or powerless to do anything about it?

@NoobDad, you just advanced to level 6!

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/donald-trump-rigged-vote-twitter-2012/index.html

Here is an example of what I'm talking about.

@NoobDad Ok, so powerless. Thanks!

Kinda weird how 2016 went tho, no?

@Maw if you watch the video, they were counting batches of votes in the logs, it wasn't a single error from one ballot, the numbers submitted exceeded the number of ballots they recorded. So if I had 20 results for 20 ballots, then on next batch I would submit 50 results but only submitted 10 new ballots

President, House and Senate. Seems like the glitch dropped the ball.

But I'm assuming the ballots were calculated separately from the ballot results, regardless, I don't have the exact details on how they conducted the log analysis

@Zuluzeit But he didn't, he signed the executive order in preparation for this.

Hahahaha yeah we didn't see that coming. Seems like It would have been a better idea to expose and fix. I do understand he was busy. Priorities.

He sat on his hands for 4 years after the 4 years from when he initially knew. 3d chess.

Here was an analysis of the machines in 2017:

@NoobDad I've watched the video a couple of times now. The detailed breakdown that Ramsland gives is for ES&S Electionware systems.

Yeah... You can see it on that screenshot.

In the beginning he explains that each of the companies are based on the same open-source software

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.

You can see exactly why TX rejected Dominion here: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/dominion.shtml

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.

Except Texas. God bless Texas.

@Zuluzeit He was getting hammered by impeachment, Russia collusion, spying.

Yeah, busy guy. I get it, man.

He did find time for a few other things though. Just not this one.

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.

@TaLoN132 why do you believe them? @RobertGrulerEsq, in his last show, presented how they had manipulative language on their site.

What do you feel their position should be?

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.

Anyway, for those who don't think machines are connected to the internet...

They use a "cloud based architecture". I can't read the names, but this is the Dallas County Voting architecture. It was hosted on AWS machines.

Oh, so the very mechanism he put in place found things to be acceptable. Perhaps they are part of the conspiracy. Hard to say.

You can see it's multiple machines, and it's standard business practice for companies to operate in this manner as @TaLoN132 would agree.

If you do not have the proper security set in place for the entire system, one of these services can be compromised.

AWS by the way hosts multiple servers ALL OVER THE WORLD. So it's very easy to imagine that the servers were hosted in Frankfurt, Germany or in Spain

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.