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Many were shocked that @GaSecofState chose Dominion (not ES&S) to replace GA’s old ES&S/Diebold machines . But ES&S had become toxic due to reports of its secret use of remote access software, data leaks, & loss of 127k black votes in GA in 2018. #gapol 1/ https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-thousands-of-black-votes-in-georgia-disappea-1832472558
2/ “Top Voting Machine Vendor [ES&S] Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States” - by Kim Zetter, 7/17/18 https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
3/ “1.8 million Chicago voter records exposed [by ES&S] online” - 8/17/17 https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/technology/business/chicago-voter-records-exposed-upguard/index.html
4/ “The exposed [ES&S] data cache included roughly a dozen encrypted passwords 4 ES&S employee accounts. In a worst-case scenario, a sophisticated attacker cld have used them 2 infiltrate company systems, said @VickerySecChris ... of.. Upgard...” 10/29/18 https://apnews.com/article/f6876669cb6b4e4c9850844f8e015b4c
5/ ES&S had also “lost” black votes in Shelby County, TN (Memphis) in 2015, as reported by Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-voting-technology/
6/ This June 2018 bombshell report about ES&S corruption involving numerous state and local election officials had further contributed to ES&S’s toxicity. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article213558729.html
7/ Republican Georgia Governor @BrianKempGA had already chosen voting machine vendor ES&S’s top lobbyist in the state as his deputy chief of staff. https://www.salon.com/2019/03/28/new-hybrid-voting-system-can-change-paper-ballot-after-its-been-cast_partner/
8/ But Dominion underbid ES&S and a Dominion lobbyist had previously served as @BrianKempGA’s chief of staff. Dominion’s partner, e-pollbook supplier Knowink, is managed by a former Republican election official whose wife had donated 2 @GaSecofState (R). https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/17/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy/
What’s really telling & concerning is that Trump, the GOP, and their surrogates almost never criticize ES&S, which is larger and more blatantly corrupt than Dominion and has had plenty of glitches and failures. 9/ https://trustthevote.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-whartonoset_industryreport.pdf
In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer Science has found “numerous exploitable vulnerabilities in nearly every component of the ES&S voting system,” both optical scan and DRE (touchscreen). 10/ https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/aviv/aviv.pdf
11/ “Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet” - 1/10/20 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
12/ Trump and the GOP’s professed belated concern about election integrity seems to have nothing to do with election integrity and everything to do w/ tipping the scales as much as they can in favor of themselves and their apparently preferred voting machine vendor, ES&S.
13/ I include many sourced facts about ES&S here, including how its chairman for years was former Senator Chuck Hagel (R), & how its initial funding came from the families of religious right activists who belonged to the Council for National Policy. https://link.medium.com/7np47yNetbb
