SOS Raffensperger: No Sign of Foul Play With Voting Machines
Though it is probably wishful thinking, hopefully the following press release from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office will put to rest these rumors of mass tampering in Georgia:
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger last week ordered Pro V&V, a U.S. Election Assistance Commission certified testing laboratory, to do an audit of a random sample of machines to confirm no hack or tamper: “Pro V&V found no evidence of the machines being tampered.”
“We are glad but not surprised that the audit of the state’s voting machines was an unqualified success,” said Secretary Raffensperger. “Election security has been a top priority since day one of my administration. We have partnered with the Department of Homeland Security, the Georgia Cyber Center, Georgia Tech security experts, and wide range of other election security experts around the state and country so Georgia voters can be confident that their vote is safe and secure.”
Pro V&V, based in Huntsville, Alabama is a U.S. Election Assistance Commission-certified Voting System Test Laboratory (VSTL), meaning the lab is “qualified to test voting systems to Federal standards.” VSTL certification is provided for under the Help America Votes Act of 2002. Pro V&V’s accreditation by the USEAC was also recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. government’s physical science laboratory dedicated to creating standards and measures that would help America be the leading science innovator in the world. NIST contributes regularly to the development of cybersecurity and elections security standards for the U.S. and the world.
Pro V&V conducted an audit of a random sample of Dominion Voting Systems voting machines throughout the state using forensic techniques, including equipment from Cobb, Douglas, Floyd, Morgan, Paulding, and Spalding Counties. ICP (precinct ballot scanners), ICX (ballot marking devices), and ICC (central absentee ballot scanners) components were all subject to the audit. In conducting the audit, Pro V&V extracted the software or firmware from the components to check that the only software or firmware on the components was certified for use by the Secretary of State’s office. The testing was conducted on a Pro V&V laptop independent of the system.
According to the Pro V&V audit, all of the software and firmware on the sampled machines was verified to be the software and firmware certified for use by the Office of the Secretary of State. Coupled with the risk-limiting audit of all paper ballots relying solely on the printed text of the ballots, these steps confirm the assessment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that there are no signs of cyber attacks or election hacking.
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How were ‘random’ machines selected? Why were audited machines limited to north Georgia? How do we know the machines tested were the actual machines used in voting?
Were ICP, ICX, and ICC components tested individually, or were they grouped by the county they came from? Why were they tested on a Pro V&V laptop instead of an actual laptop used in Georgia?
Who selected Pro V&V to perform the audit? What other firms were considered and why were they bypassed? Why was it felt necessary to select an out of state auditing firm? What is their auditing history? Have they themselves ever been audited? Is there any record of the voting history of Pro V&V’s testers and if not, why?
Why was there no public notice of the audit? Why weren’t gop monitors allowed to witness the audit and review the auditing protocols beforehand?
How can we have confidence in election results without these and other questions being answered?
Per their site:
“Pro V&V, Inc. was founded in 2011 by individuals possessing a combined testing experience of over 30 years. Pro V&V received its Certificate of Accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 from National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) on April 2, 2012. On February 24, 2015, Pro V&V achieved accreditation by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for the EAC Voting System Test Laboratory (VSTL) accreditation set forth in the EAC Voting System Testing and Certification Program and Laboratory Accreditation Program. All Senior Pro V&V employees maintain internationally recognized software testing certifications.”
No news articles that I could find.
“Why was there no public notice of the audit? Why weren’t gop monitors allowed to witness the audit and review the auditing protocols beforehand?” Were Democratic monitors allowed?
“Why were they tested on a Pro V&V laptop instead of an actual laptop used in Georgia?”- it is considered a neutral computer not altered by the customer to change the results.
Why not accept Trump lost? Why is Lindsey Graham mucking around in Georgia and other states trying to get the SOS to change votes?
Just get over it.
I apologize. I was trying to joke about how easy it is to pose inanities a la Perffler/Collins/Graham and all eight Georgia goper US reps.
ftr, I won’t stop celebrating the fact of Biden’s win and Trump’s loss for a long time.
I got the sarcasm, but it may accurately reflect the sentiment of some. I would have gone with dismissal by deep state beliefs myself. Sadly. There may be no greater psychological power than the power of belief. But I give credit to the SoS for doing all he has been able to do. Perhaps beliefs will evolve for the better for it.
Sorry.
Seems another county found a few unrecorded ballots, around 3.5K. It will not change the fact that Biden won Georgia however with the senate race so close is the SOS recount also covering the US senate races? Forgive me but I haven’t heard.
This is an audit, not a recount. A recount can be requested once the results are certified by the Secretary of State’s office, which has be done by this Friday, if the vote is within 0.5%.
Thanks Lawton found the information about 5 mins ago.