BY: JULIA SHUMWAY - JUNE 14, 2022 5:45 AM
Tim Sipple, a libertarian, filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information) request with Washington County, Oregon for "...the SQL, or Structured Query Language file, a set of code used to create or modify the contents of a database, for the test of the May 2021 election..." (from the article).
Initially the county pushed back with Oregonian law that the article says "exempts records that include trade secrets, a computer program developed or purchased by an agency or that could identify security measures, weaknesses or potential weaknesses."
Undeterred Sipple, "... appealed the county’s decision to Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton, who in February concluded the files were public and ordered the county to provide them."
That didn't sit well with the county so they sued Sipple to prevent his collecting the FIOA records.
This was in June 2022.
The trial was held recently and, according to Dr D G Frank, who provided testimony, here are his takeaways from the trial (available here on MeWe):
"Oregon Case Take-Aways"
It was a very productive week in Oregon at the trial in Washington County! I testified in the case where the SoS and County Officials were demanding that a local citizen not publicly share an election system file that was given to him by county election officials (the backup file for the 2020 General Election).
Here are my take-aways:
Oregon election officials are technically incompetent (County Clerk, AD, SoS). They have little understanding of the systems they manage, and little understanding of how vulnerable and porous their network security is.
The Oregon AG admitted in formal court documents that their election systems are accessible wirelessly even when they are not connected to local networks.
The Washington County clerk (retiring after 33 yrs) testified that she could turn on the modems on her election machines (the ones that are supposedly "air-gapped") with a few mouse clicks and without a password. (After all, they are just an off-the-shelf Dell laptop.)
Washington County election networks are using older, long-ago-hacked, security protocols.
Social 'sciences' use different mathematics than standard mathematics and statistical methods. (Math is racist, and counting ballots can only be performed by someone who has been trained as a political scientist.)
Oregon voters are using ballots that are not anonymous.
Oregon election officials are afraid to let the public inspect their systems, files, and procedures. Instead of making their election systems more transparent and auditable, Oregon election officials are trying to hide everything. (Of course, that increases the public trust in their processes.)
After careful inspection of election systems, results, and dozens of meetings with election officials in 43 states, I am sad to say that most of the above points apply to every state.
We need to "Vote Amish." All paper, no machines. Single day of voting on paper ballots with photo ID and paper poll books. Hand counting and reporting of tallies in traceable, transparent, and auditable ways.
So let's summarize this testimony:
A. These people don't know anything significant about the technology they use to secure your Constitutional right to have your vote accurately count.
B. These systems are vulnerable to external wireless access.
C. Passwords are not required.
D. These people are afraid you will find out the truth about what they do and how they do it.
E. They will resort to suing people to protect their incompetence.
F. Based on Frank's involvement in forty three (43) other states most of the above points apply to every state.
I suppose an actual trial transcript will eventually be available.
Please continue believing what is being provided here is not true and what Facebook, Twitter, etc. (again, known liars in cahoots with the US government) are telling you the truth that everything is "just fine."
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