Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
Voting systems should be owned by the public and open source. This shit shouldn’t even be possible but the US and this current regime especially actually fucken hate freedom and love corporate dick. Fuck this country.
Counterpoint: the US is a fixer-upper democracy worth restoring… then consensually fucking for the enjoyment of all those involved.
There’s no reason for them to be digital at all. The UK has secure elections with hand-counting paper ballots.
As skeptical as I am about all of this, the new owner does supposedly want to move to 100% paper ballot. Is this just something he says to buy favor though? Idk.
The first letter in GOP stands for “gaslighting”.
I’m aware of the lies. I said as much in my comment. Still, they say they want paper ballots, and I support that move. It shouldn’t have been sold to this person, but if they actually do follow through and at least have paper copies of all ballots on their machines that would be a nice benefit, but doesn’t outweigh the negatives. However, that’ll probably be in a move to remove mail-in voting, or other things that enable minotirty groups to vote more easily.
I thought about this for a second, and I don’t actually think being open source would do any good. It’s not like we can compile and run our own voting booths. There’s no way to know what’s actually running in the machine at your polling place.
And voting machines are publicly owned, but perhaps you meant designed and manufactured by the government?
The machines would be audited so we would know what’s actually running on the machines…
What? Its for authenticity and verification purposes not to pull your own down, compile, and run it. Voting Machines are not publicly owned. Specifically, they are owned by public companies and corporations who run them. Like Dominion just got bought out to be Liberty Vote.
Pretty sure they’re typically publicly owned. Maybe some places lease them. Couldn’t find a national survey, but here’s at least one example of a county that bought some machines and a service contract.
https://fm.kuac.org/elections/2025-03-10/assembly-fails-voting-machine-contract-may-force-change-to-hand-counting-ballots
Maybe a car fleet is a good example. Ford designs and builds the cars. Counties buy them, and often buy service and maintenance contracts to keep them running. The counties still own the cars.
I suppose counties could receive the source code, have it audited, and then compile and load it themselves.
When I went looking instead of thinking I just know this is what I found:
https://www.eac.gov/faq/may-state-or-county-rent-or-lease-out-its-voting-systems
Your car example is on the nose and expectedly I am wrong. I’m just wondering what we need companies like Liberty Vote for now. Why have the middle man in the machine?
Not the designed and manufactured by this current government tho… Fucking corrupt as fuck