Visitor publish by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
Visitor publish by Jack Gleason
Passwords are essential issues, particularly “BIOS” passwords that give unfettered entry to voting machines on the most simple degree, permitting huge adjustments with no path. The Colorado voting machine passwords have been posted on-line for so long as 5 months.
In highly-contested Colorado, 664 BIOS passwords have been listed in a hidden tab on a sequence of spreadsheets posted on a web page for the Colorado Secretary of State’s website as early as June of this 12 months.
Colorado SOS, Jena Griswold, has launched into a full press media campaign to attenuate the affect of the breach, slanting and mischaracterizing the details. Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams rebutted every of her factors…
She claimed the passwords have been just one half of a two-part safety system to permit entry.
Williams mentioned, “These passwords, posted on the web since at the very least June, have been COMPLETE passwords for a whole lot of items of kit… It solely takes ONE password to get into the system. In line with cyber specialists and white hat hackers, entry to the BIOS passwords makes all different passwords irrelevant.”
She claimed that the machines can’t be accessed remotely. Williams’ response… “Distant Entry is a official risk. True laptop specialists will confirm the programs could be accessed from wherever on the planet, given the suitable circumstances.”
She claimed that there is no such thing as a proof that any programs have been compromised. Williams… “Cyber specialists who’ve examined election programs and high-level authorities programs… advise a mean hacker might compromise the machine and go away no hint that they had been within the machine.”
Griswold mentioned all that’s wanted to repair the issue is a password change. Williams’ response… “Cyber specialists warn these programs should be quarantined, then bear a complete forensic investigation… There is no such thing as a fixing this tools – it needs to be scrapped.”
Williams has said “President Trump is effectively conscious of the problems with our elections programs and procedures. We are able to count on Election Safety shall be among the many first issues he addresses when he’s sworn in once more on Jan twentieth, 2025. Earlier than that occurs, Colorado voters deserve a full investigation of the safety violations and password compromises because of Secretary Griswold’s negligence.”
Though Chairman Williams didn’t come out and accuse Griswold of prison exercise, this information breach can’t simply be an oversight or accident. Spreadsheets don’t load themselves onto web sites. These passwords might have simply been utilized by anybody who knew of the info to hack into the machines and arrange any variety of strategies to alter the election programs and outcomes, with no probability of detection.
Tina Peters, an election clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, was just lately sentenced to 9 years in jail for making a replica of her machine’s 2020 election information earlier than complying with an improper and unlawful demand by Jena Griswold to erase all election information on her system.
For elevating questions on election irregularities, she was discovered responsible on 7 of 10 prices.
After her sentencing, Peters released more data to the public for evaluation with stories at tinapeters.us.
But Griswold’s cowl up of the BIOS information breach is taken into account a minor drawback. Here’s a recording of her discussions with Colorado election officers announcing the breach and getting some severe pushback from her personal staff.
Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams could quickly be calling for whomever turns into U.S. Legal professional Common within the new Trump administration, to launch a full investigation into the best way elections have been performed in Colorado. He says “Latest safety failures beneath Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, together with a essential password leak, reveal a troubling degree of incompetence that threatens Colorado’s election integrity. Safeguarding our programs is important and Griswold’s incapacity to stop these lapses undermines public belief. Colorado deserves leaders who prioritize safety and accountability, and it’s time for Griswold to deal with these failures with transparency and efficient options.”
Williams was interviewed on the Grant Stinchfield Show on November 14th.
Tina Peter’s conviction is now beneath attraction.
A couple of extra ideas…
Mainly a pc is nothing greater than a calculator, however altering its BIOS means you can also make undetectable adjustments. What if two plus two equals 4 for Republican candidates, however two plus two equals twenty-two for Democrats?
When an election system is compromised to this extent, all outcomes are suspect and a very new election needs to be performed. That is of nationwide concern. Colorado will not be solely electing state and native candidates, however their federal elections might have an effect on the make-up of the Home and Senate.
It’s thought that Jane Griswold shall be operating for governor of Colorado. Wouldn’t it’s attention-grabbing if her opponent was Tina Peters, campaigning from jail in her orange jumpsuit? You’d have the courageous whistleblower towards the self-serving politician.
Einstein mentioned the definition of “madness” is doing the identical factor again and again and anticipating a distinct end result. A corollary in politics may very well be “conducting totally different elections however getting the identical outcomes.” Why is it that the majority shut elections appear to favor Democrats and RINOs?
It’s attention-grabbing when recounts of paper ballots often discover 1-20 errors, however critiques of machine counts can discover errors and errors within the 1000’s. It’s time to mandate paper ballots, with equal numbers from every get together monitoring the counting, and election officers making certain that each one voters are Americans dwelling at confirmed addresses. Our votes was counted on election eve with nice accuracy. There needs to be no extra counting days or even weeks after the voting stops.
Any single deviation from these guidelines – compromised voting machine safety, misplaced chain of custody of ballots, improper counting oversight, unverified signatures on absentee ballots, should invalidate the whole election instantly. New elections needs to be performed with oversight by court-appointed particular masters.
Our vote is the elemental proper of all Individuals and the muse upon which our Constitutional Republic stands. It should be protected in any respect prices.
Jack Gleason is a conservative, commonsense political author. He could be reached at [email protected]
