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Biden Administration Urges Court Not to Allow Release of ‘Secret Report’ on Dominion Voting Machines

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,437 Founders Club
By Zachary Stieber February 12, 2022

Top officials at a U.S. federal cybersecurity agency are urging a judge not to authorize at this time the release of a report that analyzes Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Georgia, arguing doing so could assist hackers trying to “undermine election security.”

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was recently provided an unredacted copy of the report, which was prepared by J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society.

The report discusses “potential vulnerabilities in Dominion ImageCast X ballot marking devices,” or electronic voting devices, according to the government.

While CISA supports public disclosure of any vulnerabilities and associated mitigation measures with election equipment, allowing the release of the report at this point “increases the risk that malicious actors may be able to exploit any vulnerabilities and threaten election security,” government lawyers said in a Feb. 10 filing in the case.

The case was brought in 2017 by good government groups and voters who say the lack of paper ballots undermines the voting process.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, an Obama nominee overseeing the case, was urged by CISA to reject attempts to release a redacted version of Halderman’s report for now.

CISA officials want to review the information in the report and help Dominion resolve the vulnerabilities identified before the report is released. They said they weren’t able to provide a date by which they’ll be finished.

Totenberg must weigh the request against the wishes of Georgia Secretary State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican and one of the defendants, who called in late January for the release to happen immediately.

John Poulos, Dominion’s CEO and president, said in a statement released by Raffensperger’s office that Halderman’s review lacked “a holistic approach,” adding that Dominion “supports all efforts to bring real facts and evidence forward to defend the integrity of our machines and the credibility of Georgia’s elections.”

Plaintiffs, including the Coalition for Good Governance, also support the release of the report, David Cross, one of their lawyers, confirmed to The Epoch Times.

The plaintiffs said in a filing before a copy was sent to CISA that the agency should get a copy and begin its evaluation process, but that the evaluation “should not unreasonably delay the public disclosure of the report, which must be promptly disclosed to Georgia state and county election officials, and filed on the public docket, so that public officials can secure the upcoming May primary elections.”

They asked Totenberg to order them to file a redacted version of the report on the docket, which would make it accessible to the public, no later than March 4.
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Comments

  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,122 Standard Supporter
    I heard a major paper has as it slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness". While true, it's the operating mode for leftists everywhere. Not one leftard on the Pump wants an honest election.
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    I recall and interview with an ex-CIA agent who had his own cybersecurity Co. filled with ex-CIA/FBI guys, discussing how easy it was to access voting machines from a parking lot outside a polling center.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,464 Founders Club
    Time to move on so we don't upset the independents

    Or as we like to say - democrats
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967

    Time to move on so we don't upset the independents

    Or as we like to say - democrats

    An independent is a DIM just waiting for the correct password to vote their team.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 39,077 Standard Supporter
    They want to hide everything because they know they are guilty as Hell.

    Just like big Pharma wanting to have the court deal all their data on the Covid vax for 75 years.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    edited February 2022
    I have an idea. Let’s go ahead a release both the January 6th and the Dominion Report together. Then everybody is happy.
  • Goduckies
    Goduckies Member Posts: 8,147 Standard Supporter

    I heard a major paper has as it slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness". While true, it's the operating mode for leftists everywhere. Not one leftard on the Pump wants an honest election.

    Yeah I wasn't big on the machines being hacked, but if they are hiding this.... that's a big issue that opens it up.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,437 Founders Club
    Goduckies said:

    I heard a major paper has as it slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness". While true, it's the operating mode for leftists everywhere. Not one leftard on the Pump wants an honest election.

    Yeah I wasn't big on the machines being hacked, but if they are hiding this.... that's a big issue that opens it up.

  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,691
    Birds aren’t real