Justsomeguy

This version of the letter went out to the State and County GOP Chairs

Gentlemen,

I have sent this communication to the legislative representatives, the top three state wide office holders and the county commissioners in Tarrant County. I am anxiously looking for vociferous support from everyone in the political world to help uncover this obvious fraud.

Chairman Rinaldi, I will add while I'm here that I'm very appreciative of the stand you took regarding the Quorum breakers. I would very much like to see a large effort in getting and audit proposal moving in Texas.

 

Greetings.

 

I wrote to you last week and provided you with a fairly lengthy list of links from established news sources, that told us of vulnerabilities in our election equipment.

 

Greetings,

Although I’m not normally one to follow the ins and outs of political races across the country, within about three days of the November election, I was seeing things that just didn’t seem quite right. I began doing some research and I found many many articles warning of potential problems in our election systems. These articles were from all manner of publishers including many that are most often considered reliable. I have now done hundreds of hours of reading on the subject. I’ll link to just a few of the articles that predate the election below.

 

Most of these articles warned of vulnerabilities in our electronic election equipment. I realized I had seen some of those articles when they were published and had the attitude that someone should do something about that. Nobody did. There were a good many articles that also told us about strange happenings in various elections across the county. Most of these were never resolved but when all of them were taken as a whole, I came to the conclusion that there have been significant regularities across the country since at least 2004. My opinions were solely based on the reading of news articles and it seemed to me that members of both parties had complained about irregularities.

Today, the media paints a much different picture, but doesn’t give us any evidence as to why their opinions should change. That’s a bit strange don’t you think?

As time went on more and more data analyst became involved in looking into the irregularities and came to conclusions based on data they had interpreted that were similar to mine.

As more time and research has been done, I’m convinced that the problems go back much further than the early 2000’s. What’s more, we have taken what should be a simple procedure and turned it into one that neither the politicians nor most of the people fully understand. I have already written each of you on this subject and I will again.

This is being sent to all of my elected representatives at every level and to most all state representatives. My expectation is that you will not only support, but will advocate to rip the lid off of our election systems and leaving no stone unturned see what if any problems are there. I expect audits to be done that include but are not limited to:

A review of the voter roles with a neighborhood canvass to examine anomalies; a complete examination of the software installed in any piece of voting equipment; A complete examination of all county and precinct router data – yes, something is going through routers or the poll books wouldn’t work and if there is nothing there it's time to prove it; a detailed forensic examination of the ballots themselves; and an examination of all chain of custody documents.

In Texas, Steve Toths audit bill (HB241) seems to be the most developed way to get there, but I expect all of my representatives at every level to work on making this a reality by any means possible as quickly as possible. Adding HB241 as an amendment to SB1 might be a worthy idea. However it’s done we are now going to “do something about that”.

Regards,
XXXXXX

 

Links follow. Yup there’s a lot of them. All of them from before the election warning of potential issues.

Politicians on Election Machine Security
https://rumble.com/vhvnv5-the-politicians.htmlhttps://rumble.com/vhvnv5-the-politicians.html

Votescam

https://justsomeguy.us/index.php/jsg/votescam

Politico: How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes (Aug 5, 2016)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144/

 

PBS: Recounts or no, U.S. elections are still vulnerable to hacking (December 26, 2016)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/recounts-no-u-s-elections-still-vulnerable-hacking

 

CBS: Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised (Aug 10, 2016)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rigged-presidential-elections-hackers-demonstrate-voting-threat-old-machines/

 

FOX: Princeton Professor demonstrates how to hack a voting machine (Sep 18, 2016)

 

Politico: Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked? (June 14, 2017)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255

 

CNET: Defcon hackers find it’s very easy to break voting machines (July 30, 2017)

https://www.cnet.com/news/defcon-hackers-find-its-very-easy-to-break-voting-machines/

 

CNN: We watched hackers break into voting machines (Aug 11, 2017)

 

Slate: America's Voting Systems Are Highly Vulnerable to Hackers (Feb 22, 2018)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/americas-voting-systems-are-still-dangerously-vulnerable-to-hacking.html

 

New York Times: I Hacked an Election. So Can the Russians. (April 5, 2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/opinion/election-voting-machine-hacking-russians.html

 

Axios: There's more than one way to hack an election (July 3, 2018)

https://www.axios.com/be-smart-there-is-more-than-one-way-to-hack-an-election-1529424861-1e0c75d9-32b8-4a85-98b3-47d5a853fdeb.html

 

Newsweek: Election Hacking: Voting-Machine Supplier Admits It Used Hackable Software (July 17, 2018)

https://www.newsweek.com/election-hacking-voting-machines-software-1028948

 

Voting Machine Hacks at DefCon: 11-year-old hacks Florida voting systems. (Aug 12, 2018)

 

The Guardian: Why US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks (Aug 13, 2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/us-election-cybersecurity-hacking-voting

 

CBS: Why voting machines in the U.S. are easy targets for hackers (September 19, 2018)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-voting-machines-in-the-u-s-are-easy-targets-for-hackers/

 

Jenny Cohn: The genesis of America’s corrupted computerized election system (Oct 10, 2018)

https://jennycohn1.medium.com/the-corruption-of-americas-computerized-elections-3d5b77124ebe

 

New York Times: America's Elections Could Be Hacked. Go Vote Anyway (October 19, 2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/midterm-elections-hacking.html

 

Scientific American: The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines (Nov 1, 2018)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-vulnerabilities-of-our-voting-machines/

 

GQ: How to Hack an Election (November 5, 2018)

https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-hack-an-election

 

NYBooks: Voting Machines - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (November 5, 2018)

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/05/voting-machines-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

 

Salon: Philly ignores cybersecurity and disability access in voting system selection (Feb 16, 2019)

https://www.salon.com/2019/02/16/philly-ignores-cybersecurity-and-disability-access-in-voting-system-selection_partner/

 

Politico: State election officials opt for 2020 voting machines vulnerable to hacking (March 1, 2019)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/election-vulnerable-voting-machines-1198780

 

TechCrunch: Senators demand to know why election vendors still sell voting machines with ‘known vulnerabilities’ (Mar 27, 2019)

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/27/senators-security-voting-machines/

 

Salon: New "hybrid" voting system can change paper ballot after it's been cast (March 28, 2019)

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/28/new-hybrid-voting-system-can-change-paper-ballot-after-its-been-cast_partner/

 

AP: New Election systems use vulnerable software (July 13, 2019)

https://apnews.com/article/e5e070c31f3c497fa9e6875f426ccde1

 

Vice: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials (Aug 8, 2019)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-election-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials

 

CNN: Watch this hacker break into a voting machine (Aug 10, 2019)

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/08/10/voting-booth-hack-def-con-orig.cnn-business

 

Washington Post: Hackers were told to break into U.S. voting machines. They didn't have much trouble. (Aug 12, 2019)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/12/def-con-hackers-lawmakers-came-together-tackle-holes-election-security/

 

MIT Tech Review: 16 million Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines (Aug 13, 2019)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/13/238715/16-million-americans-will-vote-on-hackable-paperless-voting-machines/

 

Salon: Hackers can easily break into voting machines used across the U.S. (August 14, 2019)

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/hackers-can-easily-break-into-voting-machines-used-across-the-u-s-play-doom-nirvana/

 

FOX: Election machine keys are on the Internet, hackers say (August 22, 2019)

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/i-have-the-keys-to-your-voting-machine-probably

 

NPR: Cyber Experts Warn Of Vulnerabilities Facing 2020 Election Machines (Sep 4, 2019)

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/755066523/cyber-experts-warn-of-vulnerabilities-facing-2020-election-machines

 

Jenny Cohn: America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core (Sep 7, 2019)

https://jennycohn1.medium.com/americas-electronic-voting-system-is-corrupted-to-the-core-1f55f34f346e

 

Washington Post: U.S. voting machines vulnerable to hacks in 2020, researchers find (Sep 27, 2019)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/09/27/the-cybersecurity-202-u-s-voting-machines-vulnerable-to-hacks-in-2020-researchers-find/5d8cf823602ff14beb3da99e/

 

Motherjones: Researchers Assembled over 100 Voting Machines. Hackers Broke Into Every Single One. (Sep 27, 2019)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/defcon-2019-hacking-village/

 

The Hill: Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents (Oct 2, 2019)

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/464065-voting-machines-pose-a-greater-threat-to-our-elections-than-foreign-agents

 

RollingStone: John Oliver Breaks Down Faulty Election Machine Security on 'Last Week Tonight' (November 4, 2019)

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-election-security-voting-machiens-hack-907626/

 

Bloomberg: Expensive, Glitchy Voting Machines Expose 2020 Hacking Risks (November 8, 2019)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/expensive-glitchy-voting-machines-expose-2020-hacking-risks

 

NYBooks: How New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy (Dec 17, 2019)

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/17/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy/

 

Washington Post: Voting machines touted as secure option are actually vulnerable to hacking, study finds (Jan 8, 2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2020/01/08/the-cybersecurity-202-voting-machines-touted-as-secure-option-are-actually-vulnerable-to-hacking-study-finds/5e14cc6e602ff125ce5bd747/

 

NBC: 'Online and vulnerable' - Experts find nearly three dozens U.S. voting systems connected to internet (Jan 10, 2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436

 

AP: Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned (Feb 23, 2020)

https://apnews.com/article/ae388fb69d14e5d3619128a591cdc0c4

 

The Guardian: Hack the vote - terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are (Mar 26, 2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/26/kill-chain-hbo-election-hacking-documentary

 

AJC: In high-stakes election, Georgia’s voting system vulnerable to cyberattack (Oct 23, 2020)

https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/in-high-stakes-election-georgias-voting-system-vulnerable-to-cyberattack/TBFT5U5BH5AZZPFPZTP3LFQ7RY/

 

POLITICO How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes. With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize—victory on Nov. 8—would be child’s play.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144

 

On their face, elections are a fairly simple matter. They are simply the act of counting marks on a piece of paper. Most fifth graders can accomplish that task and in the case of large numbers we might wish to enlist the aid of some junior high schoolers.

Instead we have devised systems that most of our citizens and elected representatives do not understand. You as an elected representative cannot personally guarantee that these systems are safe because you do not fully understand them. You are reliant on computer programmers and integrated technology personnel who almost universally have not had full access to the software themselves.

The claim that our equipment is not connected to the internet is subterfuge at best. We are now using electronic poll books in the county. These poll books communicate electronically and although they likely are not technically on the internet, any electronic communication is able to be hacked.

You will now offer protestations that these systems don’t hold or count our vote and that is true. They do however instantly tell us who from what precincts have voted. Since precincts tend to trend towards a specific party, much can be learned. Additionally many voters are associated with a party through their primary voting history which aids in refining information. How this information can then be used is not fully understood, but it is becoming clear that access to this information in addition to fraudulently registered and “phantom voters” are being used to some nefarious effect.

If you do not believe there are fraudulently registered phantom voters I invite you to look up the registration of Josh Fox. Josh Fox is 27 years old and registered at my home. Now I’ve owned this home for more than 20 years and never met him, so there’s a problem. No Josh is not shown to have ever voted, but his being on the roles at a minimum gives headroom for voter participation numbers and may be useful for much more.

To determine what effect these phantom voters may have and to see how else phantom voters might be used, we need to fully open the systems up and closely examine them.

I expect the Tarrant County Commissioners to call for a full and complete forensic examination of our election system to include but not be limited too: a review of the voter roles with a neighborhood canvass to examine anomalies; a complete examination of the software installed in any piece of voting equipment; A complete examination of all county and precinct router data – yes, something is going through routers or the poll books wouldn’t work and if there is nothing there it's time to prove it; and a detailed forensic examination of the ballots themselves. We unquestionably know there were issues with ballot printing in Tarrant County and as a citizen of this county I expect a full and complete demonstration that these issues were handled properly.

This is just the tip of the ice berg. There is more. Much more, and there are more and more citizens getting involved each day.

I further expect any other elected representative to support an effort to accomplish this audit.

I will leave with a link to an article that gives more detail to the phantom voter I described above, and with this graphic. What is seen in the graphic to quote my non political wife “didn’t happen”.

https://justsomeguy.us/index.php/jsg/phantom-voter-found-very-close-to-home