So. About these flash drives that apparently are used all over the country for votes and I'm just going to set all of that aside. I have the following questions:
1. How are the drives sourced?
2. Are the drives completely reformatted prior to be used for election purposes?
3. How are the drives marked to identify the precinct for which the drive was used?
4. What human being is given custody of the drive initially?
5. What human being is given custody at the precinct?
6. Is only one person allowed to use the drive? If not, how many users are there
7. Is an audit trail kept of every single human being who had touched the drive?
8. How is the data transferred accomplished?
9. What training are the people using the drive given on the data transfer process?
10. What program is used for the data transfer?
11. Do the drives have some type of encryption?
12. Is so, what encryption program is used?
13. Are there written protocols for how the drives are to be physically handled at all points of transportation?
14. If so, what are those protocols?
15. To what human being are the drives to be given for final vote tally?
16. Is there a signed log for the physical transfer from one human being to another of the drive?
17. Does any human being take a tally to ensure all drives are accounted for before vote totals are announced
18. What is the file structure on the drives regarding vote types and totals?
19. What training are those using the drives given regarding that file structure?
20. What human beings wrote the protocols for that file structure?
21. How many drives were used in each state?
There's 21 questions off the top of my head in like five minutes. I haven't seen anyone ask any of those questions. These are, to me anyway, the most basic questions of all to be asked before those who know computers ask the important questions. And yet, radio silence.
A note on my use of human beings - I spent decades drafting discovery to companies that used software for various tracking purposes. Unless you say give me the name of a living breathing human, the replies would be the computer did it. Yeah, no, humans did. Tell me their names.
Maybe I'm just a wee bit cynical, but by the second time more votes were found on a drive and oh yeah found another drive occurred, I thought all of the above. And yet, Our Betters seem not to care about any of that. And they truly do not want those questions asked. Funny that.
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