The most secure election in history

The following headlines are from the MSM before the 2020 election.

Their associated links can be accessed through the link at the bottom of this OP.



After the 2020 election, the MSM claims the election was the most secure in history.

So what changed all of the sudden?



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://charliekirk.com/news/the-proof-is-in-the-headlines-4-years-of-corporate-media-doubting-secure-elections/

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Oh yay, another dumb DG thread to block.

As an example, was it blockchain technology?


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How Blockchain Technology Can Prevent Voter Fraud

Updated December 09, 2020
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Blockchain Serves the Voters

In its most basic form, blockchain is a digital ledger. The technology draws its power from the peers—or nodes—on its network to verify, process, and record all transactions across the system. This ledger is never stored, but rather exists on the “chain” supported by millions of nodes simultaneously. Thanks to encryption and decentralization, blockchain’s database of transactions is incorruptible, and each record is easily verifiable. The network cannot be taken down or influenced by a single party because it doesn’t exist in one place.

It’s not only financial transactions that work with blockchain, but any type of data transmission. This kind of system infrastructure is extremely useful for voting because a vote is a small piece of high-value data. Out of necessity, modern voting systems are largely stuck in the last century, and those that want to vote must leave their homes and submit paper ballots to a local authority. Why not bring this process online? Some have tried, but it has proven difficult to put faith in the results due to large gaps in security.

Blockchain can solve the many problems discovered in these early attempts at online voting. A blockchain-based voting application does not concern itself with the security of its Internet connection, because any hacker with access to the terminal will not be able to affect other nodes. Voters can effectively submit their vote without revealing their identity or political preferences to the public. Officials can count votes with absolute certainty, knowing that each ID can be attributed to one vote, no fakes can be created, and that tampering is impossible.
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https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-blockchain-technology-can-prevent-voter-fraud/

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Quote: ams288

Oh yay, another dumb DG thread to block.

Some will never accept that a significant number of people just don't like all the things the right often stands for. Instead they keep making excuses.

It's true for the left as well.

But the right is over obsessed with it.

Quote: DoubleGold

The following headlines are from the MSM before the 2020 election.

Their associated links can be accessed through the link at the bottom of this OP.



After the 2020 election, the MSM claims the election was the most secure in history.

So what changed all of the sudden?

What changed? We developed systems and safeguards to conduct more secure elections, that were never unsecure in the first place. That's what happened. For further elucidation, I refer you to public statements by election officials in each jurisdiction that conducted an election in 2020, as well as statements from the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Justice, as well as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Quote: GenoDRPh

What changed? We developed systems and safeguards to conduct more secure elections, that were never unsecure in the first place. That's what happened. For further elucidation, I refer you to public statements by election officials in each jurisdiction that conducted an election in 2020, as well as statements from the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Justice, as well as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Are you implying it was something Trump did that Obama didn't do?

Quote: DoubleGold

Are you implying it was something Trump did that Obama didn't do?

Read what I wrote again, copied here: We developed systems and safeguards to conduct more secure elections, that were never unsecure in the first place.

Quote: GenoDRPh

Read what I wrote again, copied here: We developed systems and safeguards to conduct more secure elections, that were never unsecure in the first place.

I saw that but wanted to clarify your meaning.


The word "unsecure" is not in the dictionary.

Did you mean "not secure" (like in the title) or possibly "insecure"?

You need a better dictionary...

Quote: GenoDRPh

You need a better dictionary...

I'll check others.

I just want to make sure before I research.


Where you wrote "never unsecure", did you mean to write a double negative?