Truth Social? Nah - More Fake news from Captain Chaos. (5)

/\/\... ICU need to do better research! That 2016 Halderman video was totally dis-proven by 2020..


Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Halderman stated that a software glitch during the unofficial vote tally was not caused by fraud, but rather by human error,and said the conspiracy theory that a supercomputer was used to switch votes from Trump to Biden was "nonsense".

Quick Take

A baseless conspiracy theory claims that a secret supercomputer was used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Experts — and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have said the theory is a hoax and that safeguards, including paper trails, would deter such an effort.




However, it was not the result of malfunctioning voting machines. Instead, it stemmed from a human lapse to update and configure the software used to tally votes. In a November 7 statement

, Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State, said, "The error in reporting unofficial results in Antrim County Michigan was the result of a user error that was quickly identified and corrected; did not affect the way ballots were actually tabulated; and would have been identified in the county canvass before official results were reported even if it had not been identified earlier."

J. Alex Halderman, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and a voting systems expert, said he is convinced that it was a human error.

County officials correctly loaded a new version of the "election definition" data onto the scanners for the affected areas, but left the old version on scanners for precincts where the ballot was not affected by the late change, Halderman told the Detroit Free Press.

"Since the scanners ... used slightly different election definitions, some of the positions didn't line up properly," he said. "As a result, when the results were read by the election management system, some of them were initially assigned to the wrong candidates.




For years, Halderman has been calling attention to the potential vulnerabilities of computerized election systems; he has even performed hands-on demonstrations for a Times video and at the Defcon hacking convention, to show how certain voting machines can be easily manipulated to flip votes. In the past, when Halderman was asked if he worried that he might be handing hackers tools to subvert an election, he said that he wasn’t revealing anything that a sophisticated hacker didn’t already know how to do. But, when I spoke with him recently, he expressed concern that voting machines also may be increasingly susceptible to internal attacks. “Over the last year, technically skilled people working with different right-wing audit groups and different lawsuits have gained access to election equipment from local clerks and election officials, who were willing to give them extraordinary access,” he said. “This is allowing them to learn things about the real security problems with systems that could be used to exploit them.” (The F.B.I. is currently investigating breaches of election systems that occurred earlier this year in Ohio and Colorado, when outsiders on the hunt for voter fraud gained access to county election networks, apparently with the assistance of local government officials.)