The Myth of American Liberal Democracy
Americans are being divided and gaslit because of a myth. Microsoft ElectionGuard has ties to Benjamin Netanyahu's Unit 8200 and Russia's Kaspersky Lab that is headquartered in Jerusalem.
In no way should anyone use this research to riot or prevent a peaceful transfer of power since Kamala Harris has the judicial system at her disposal. I feel like I am still digesting this information myself. There are writers and bloggers who use words instead of paint for their artistic expression, but I am not one. I collect information and try to crowd source the answers. I’m not a techie, nor do I fully understand how the lines of code can be manipulated. My hope is that others can better explain the process about the software vulnerabilities. All of the articles are hyperlinked and in chronological order with the pertinent paragraph in quotations at the bottom of this Substack.
The so-called “liberal” media is already trying to scapegoat Latinos, Black men, Arabs, women, and even Jewish Americans for Trump’s 2024 “win” with no mention of the bomb threats and election software malfunctions in swing states.
Divide et impera (divide and rule) is their go to strategy to distract the masses. If anyone is over the target of the problem, they resort to calling them a “conspiracy theorist.”
I also wanted to understand the liberal establishment’s refusal to acknowledge election fraud. From what I’ve gathered they don’t actually believe in liberal democracy, but constitutional liberalism.
Constitutional liberalism does not prioritize voters electing representatives but solely about the end goal of upholding the principles of classical liberalism and the rule of law. Liberal democracy is a form of government that combines democracy (state power vested in the people) with ideas of liberal political philosophy.
Understanding the Risks of Liberal Democracy
So, what would be the establishment’s motive to upend liberal democracy? *Sometimes the people vote in autocrats. Which is true.
Fareed Zakaria’s 1997 article The Rise of Illiberal Democracy sums up the differences of constitutional liberalism vs. liberal democracy, the rise of democracies turning illiberal, and its risk to the liberal world order.
“Constitutional liberalism has led to democracy, but democracy does not seem to bring constitutional liberalism.” — Fareed Zakaria
I can understand their reasoning, but now its foreign nations hacking our elections and hold us back from fixing the very real issues of eradicating transnational criminal organizations and restraining corporate power over the state aka Italian fascism.
A History of (Alleged) Election Fraud
The (allegedly) stolen U.S. elections of 2016 and 2020 are not anomalies, but a feature of our current electronic voting system. It’s no different than the days of old when Tammany Hall held an iron grip over New York City politics.
2000: Bush v. Gore ‘Hanging Chads’
The Supreme Court tossed out Florida voters’ punch-card ballots where they had only detached a portion of the perforated paper "hanging chads" or merely denting, rather than removing the punch-out "dimpled chads.”
2004: Diebold Voting Machines in Ohio
There were widespread reports of voter intimidation, faulty voting machines, and mishandled absentee and provisional ballots. The election results that contradicted exit polls and then there were the electronic voting machines that could be manipulated in ways to (allegedly) fix elections.
2016: Cambridge Analytica and Israeli Psy-Group Influence Ops
So, imagine all the cumulative problems above and now add in perception management and microtargeting of voters by Cambridge Analytica and the Israeli company Psy-Group.
2020: Mail-in Ballots, Unconstitutional Rule Changes
I think this election was stolen by our liberal establishment to wrest control away from Russian and Likud compromised politicians.
The 75th U.S. Postmaster General Louis Dejoy is still a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump. Dejoy is still Postmaster General during the recent 2024 election.
* Also, chew on this: most illegal drugs come through the mail.
2024: Microsoft ElectionGuard and Voting Machines
There have been at least 50 bomb threats across 7 states (mostly swing states) and now election software malfunctions. Microsoft ElectionGuard that was implemented in 2019 has some concerning ties to Israel’s Unit 8200. With Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and his animosity toward the Biden Administration, he really has nothing to lose. Netanyahu has stated that Israel and Microsoft are “a marriage made in heaven but recognized here on Earth.”
ElectionGuard boasts of transparency due to its open-source software, but OpenSSL can still have vulnerabilities as we saw with the Heartbleed bug that let a hacker access the memory of data servers.
Microsoft’s research and development is located in Israel and also has ties to Russian backed Kaspersky Lab.
“Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company”
—Steve Ballmer, Former CEO, Microsoft
The No Tech for Apartheid campaign has detailed Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Bomb Threats: Targeted 50 Voting Locations Across 7 States
Originate from Russian Email Domains (which can be spoofed)
Bomb Threats AND Election Software Malfunctions in PA
On November 05th, Centre County in Pennsylvania had to evacuate the Willowbank Building for about an hour due to a bomb threat while local and state police swept the building.
Now, on the 6th, Centre County’s Election team and IT team are having issues with the data from the mail-in ballots not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.
I will share any other anomalies on X/Twitter as they pop up, but we all know the real winner of 2024: Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jonathan Simon, the author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and The War on American Democracy, speaking at the National Press Club in 2019 detailing the vulnerabilities of voting machines. His book was originally published in 2014 before the rise of Donald trump.
Many other countries in Europe and elsewhere no longer use electronic voting machines such as Germany and Ireland, because they understand the risks that come along with it.
Hopefully others can add more context or nuance that I’ve might have missed in my research.
-D.C.
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Articles in Chronological Order - No Gaslighting Here!
The trouble with e-voting - Aug. 30, 2004 (cnn.com)
“But that's not the only knock against the company. A lawsuit was filed against Diebold last year in California alleging that software flaws makes the voting machines vulnerable to hacker attacks and computer viruses. There are also concerns about the lack of a verifiable paper trail with electronic voting.”
Electronic Voting: The Stolen Election of 2004 - resilience November 5, 2004
“Diebold’s Walden O’Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, publicly committed himself to delivering his home state Ohio’s votes to Bush. At Diebold, the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob’s brother, Todd, is a top executive at ‘rival’ ES&S.”
Back-door flaws found in Diebold e-voting machines – Computerworld - May 15, 2006
“A Diebold spokesman did not dispute Hursti’s findings but said that Black Box Voting was making too much of the matter because the systems are intended to remain in the hands of trusted election officials.”
Diebold Compromised Its Own Voting Machine Security | CRN January 25, 2007
“Various media reports suggest malicious software can be installed on Diebold voting machines and the lock securing the machines can be opened with a simple hotel minibar key.”
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages | NSA | The Guardian July 12, 2013
Open-Source Software Has Vulnerabilities
Heartbleed bug: What you need to know (FAQ) - CNET April 11, 2014
“Heartbleed is a security vulnerability in OpenSSL software that lets a hacker access the memory of data servers.”
CODE RED identifies the red flags--including the glaring ones waving over the 2014 election and the 2016 primaries--and provides accessible examinations of why those flags are red It is a disturbing and provocative call to action. It is about saving our democracy and our country. Now, before it's all gone.
Free and fair elections are the bedrock of a democracy. America, which considers itself the beacon of democracy, has turned to computerized counting for virtually all of its public elections. But trusting our democracy to a concealed, computerized vote counting system is like building a house on quicksand.
Several other advanced democracies including Germany, The Netherlands, and Ireland have moved away from the computerized tabulation they initially embraced, having recognized the manifest security risks it entails.
But America has continued to entrust its elections to privatized and concealed vote counting despite mounting and voluminous evidence that the vulnerabilities to manipulation are not merely hypothetical but are actually being exploited, with profound political consequences.
Microsoft ElectionGuard is Tied to Israel’s Unit 8200
Kaspersky Lab to open Jerusalem R&D center - Globes Oct 6, 2014
“Russian software security giant Kaspersky Lab, known for its popular anti-virus system, will open a development center in Jerusalem next year - one of its few outside of Russia. In its first stage, the development center will employ six workers, but the number is expected to increase over time.”
Private Equity Controls the Gatekeepers of American Democracy - Bloomberg November 3, 2018
Warning - Mint Press News is pro-Russia, pro-Iran, & pro-Assad
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“Furthermore, amid the unfolding scandal of Israeli meddling in foreign elections, Microsoft’s growing ties to Israeli military intelligence and private Israeli cybersecurity firms raise even more concerns about whether ElectionGuard’s real purpose is to ‘secure’ American elections for candidates friendly to the establishment, especially the military-industrial complex.”
Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities | WIRED September 26, 2019
“That includes the ES&S AutoMARK, used in 28 states in 2018, and Premier/Diebold AccuVote-OS, used in 26 states that same year.”
Build 2019: Microsoft's ElectionGuard Software to Offer Tools to Secure Elections | Technology News (gadgets360.com) May 7, 2019
"It can be used with a ballot-marking device. It can be used with an optical scanner, on hand-marked paper ballots," said Josh Benaloh, a senior cryptographer at Microsoft Research and key contributor to the ElectionGuard project.
The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It. — ProPublica Oct. 28, 2019
“In Georgia, where the race for governor had drawn national interest amid concerns about election integrity, ES&S-owned technology was in use when more than 150,000 voters inexplicably did not cast a vote for lieutenant governor. In part because the aged ES&S-managed machines did not produce paper backups, it wasn’t clear whether mechanical or human errors were to blame. Litigation surrounding the vote endures to this day.”
The election security hole everyone ignores - POLITICO August 31, 2020
“The devices often communicate wirelessly with each other and with backend voter registration databases, offering a potential pathway for hackers who get onto that wireless network to delete or alter voter records — to indicate falsely, for example, that someone has already voted. Hackers could further use the wireless connection to breach the backend databases and other systems connected to them.”
The Problem with Mail-In Ballots
Louis DeJoy: Postmaster General donated nearly $700,000 to Trump’s convention, new filings show | CNN Politics October 10, 2020
Louis DeJoy Had More Than A Dozen Potential Conflicts Of Interest Upon Taking Charge Of USPS, Documents Suggest (forbes.com) Oct 21, 2021
Voting Machines at Risk in 2022 | Brennan Center for Justice March 1, 2022
“Furthermore, according to cybersecurity expert Jeremy Epstein, ‘from a security perspective, old software is riskier, because new methods of attack are constantly being developed, and older software is likely to be vulnerable.’”
Kaspersky and Microsoft partner to deliver Threat Intelligence to Microsoft Sentinel users August 22, 2022
“Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds are now integrated with Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud native SIEM and SOAR solution to help Microsoft Sentinel users with actionable context for attack investigation and response. With this integration, enterprise security teams can extend cyberthreat detection capabilities and increase the effectiveness of initial alert triage, threat hunting or incident response.”
Microsoft explains how Russian hackers spied on its executives - The Verge January 26, 2024
“This elevated access allowed the group to create more malicious OAuth applications and create accounts to access Microsoft’s corporate environment and eventually its Office 365 Exchange Online service that provides access to email inboxes.”
Microsoft says it hasn't been able to evict Russian state hackers | AP News March 8, 2024
“Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data.
The hackers from Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service used data obtained in the intrusion, which it disclosed in mid-January, to compromise some source-code repositories and internal systems, the software giant said in a blog and a regulatory filing.”
Kaspersky: Biden administration bans Americans from using Russian-made cybersecurity software over national security concerns | CNN Politics - June 21, 2024
“The move uses relatively new Commerce Department authorities built on executive orders signed by Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump to ban the sale and provision of software products by Russian firm, Kaspersky Lab, inside the US.
Previously installed software from the company can continue to be used but it will not be possible to download updates.”
USPS proposes changes to save $3 billion per year, starting in 2025 | AP News August 22, 2024
“This is the second time Postmaster General DeJoy has proposed lower service standards. He might as well announce a return to delivering mail by horse and buggy.”
Russian election interference efforts focus on the Harris-Walz campaign - Microsoft On the Issues Sep. 17, 2024
Russia and Iran have both undertaken cyber influence operations headed into the 2024 presidential election. In our last report, published on August 8, we detailed how Iranian cyber-enabled influence operations sought to undermine the Republican campaign through targeted hack-and-leak operations, covert social media personas, and imposter US news sites.
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks more control over postmaster general after mail meltdown | AP News September 19, 2024
“The legislation comes as DeJoy has tried to squash concerns from election officials throughout the country that the postal system is not prepared to handle a rush of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election.”
Netanyahu wins 2024. Agree. He won 2020 and 2016 too! A quote from Mileikowsky.....9/11 is good for Israel.
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