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> Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been aware of our findings for nearly two years, but—astonishingly—he recently announced that the state will not install Dominion’s security update until after the 2024 Presidential election, giving would-be adversaries another 18 months to develop and execute attacks that exploit the known-vulnerable machines.

This is extremely disturbing. Why is this not a scandal?

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The MITRE "nothingburger" too. It does smell like there is more going on than mere negligence.

What’s MITRE?

The security company paid by Dominion to certify that their machines were unhackable, as mentioned in the article.

I did read the article, albeit poorly as I must have: skipped past that section by mistake -or- read it while distracted but either way MITRE seemed brand new to me when I read it in the comment.

A not-for-profit organization that does research and analysis of stuff, especially security and defense stuff.

The guardians of the CVE database among other things.

>This is extremely disturbing. Why is this not a scandal?

Absolutely is a scandal but it is being censored on the common social media. Being able to see the scandal would require you to goto different social media.

But what's the severity of this compared to actual caught cheating? Or how about the voting spots which outright refused republican challengers from entry? or how about the voters who were wearing maga hats and such who were told they couldnt vote there, pets were allowed to vote though.

As an outside observer, Georgia doesnt have free and fair elections.

>or how about the voters who were wearing maga hats and such who were told they couldnt vote there,

FFS, no political messaging at the voting booths.

> compared to actual caught cheating

you mean the consistent GOP runners who keep getting busted for cheating? Wonder why we never heard anything from Trump's election investigation committee? Because they couldn't actually find proof of cheating

> pets were allowed to vote though

proof? that's a new one to me

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