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In the Northern District of Georgia and it was a the case filed by citizens or a group concerned about election um systems and election Compu you know voting systems and such and I I I looked into the plist uh I didn’t recognize them but they looked to be
Like a mix of you know folks who are Republican conservative maybe Democrat liberal I couldn’t really tell and the decision uh allowing their case to go forward is an astonishing one in light of uh really exposing if you want to talk about the big lie the big lie that
There are no legitimate concerns about the way our elections are being conducted here in the United States specifically in Georgia and specifically uh through the use of these uh uh computer voting systems to collect and tabulate votes in this case the uh dispute was about uh um the use of dominion voting
Machines in Georgia now they’re trying to jail people for raising these same concerns by the way right now in Fon County Jack Smith is doing it up here in Washington DC against Trump to this federal judge says those concerns are at least good enough to go
To trial and I thought because no one is going to tell you about what that judge said I’m going to tell you what the judge said I’m going to read it to you if I can find it again of course I just give me a second I got to go do my
Little search for it was in the Northern District of Georgia so I filed this tweet I guess I should ask Jack Smith to send me a copy it was earlier this month a federal court in the Northern District of Georgia which is the the Atlanta division now they’re going to allow these plists
To proceed the trial after they presented expert evidence which found seven core vulnerabilities in the Dominion voting systems there being used across the state and this is a quote from the opinion so this is what the expert expert presented that the court found sufficient to Warrant going to trial
Over because the allegation is if I can’t trust my vote to count my voting rights under the Constitution are harmed and the judge is going to allow that to go to trial more or less number one attackers can alter the QR codes on printed ballots to modify voter selections so was happening in
Georgia as I understand it is that you uh you you make your selection on the machine right the computer and you get a written receipt that has what looks to be your uh your selections but also the QR a QR code which supposedly mimics what’s you can see as your
Selections and the expert said well someone can mess with it in a way to make the QR code to incorrectly uh show your selections and the QR code is what’s used to finally count your ballot I I think I’m describing it correctly anyone with brief physical access to the bmd the ballot marking
Device uh machines can install malware onto the machines attackers can forge or manipulate the smart cards that a bmd and ballot marking device uses to authenticate technicians pole workers and voters which could then be used by anyone physical access to the machines to install malware onto those B marking
Devices attackers can execute arbitrary code with supervisory Privileges and then exploit it to spread malware to all bmds across the county or state attackers can also alter the bmds audit logs I guess that would make it impossible to check if something happened right you check the you do the
Audit the audit doesn’t show anything attackers with brief access to a single bmd or a single pole worker card and pin can obtain the countywide cryptographic keys which are used for authentification and to protect election results on scanner memory cards a dishonest election worker with just brief
Access to the ICP scanner memory card could determine how individual voters voted there’s my tweet there the main conclusions of the expert analysis on the Georgia computerized Dominion voting systems as described by the court are as follows here you see that there The IX bmds which is essentially dominions ballot marking
Devices are not sufficiently secured against technical compromise to withstand vote altering attacks by Bad actors who are likely to attack future elections in Georgia uh those machines can be compromised by this to the same extent as or more easily than the ACU vote TS and TX Dres they
Replaced so initially these folks came in and they were complaining about the prior machines and they came up with new machines and they’re not much better that’s what the that’s kind of what the Court’s saying there despite the addition of a paper trail icx malware can still change individual votes in
Most election outcomes without detection although outcome changing fraud conducted in this manner could be detected by a risk limit limiting audit Georgia requires a risk-limiting audit of only one contest every two years so the vast majority of Elections and contest have no such assurance and even the most robust risk limiting audit can
Only assess an election outcome it cannot evaluate whether individual votes counted as intended the vulnerabilities also make it possible for an attacker to compromise the audibility of the ballots by altering both the QR codes you know what a QR code is I I mentioned it earlier uh it’s the square barcode
Looking things you’ve seen you take a picture of them with your phone and it sends you to a website or gives you something right if you don’t know what it is you can look it up by Al altering both the QR code in the human readable text such cheating
Could not be detected by a risk limiting audit or a hand or even a hand count since all records of the voter’s intent would be wrong see that’s the trouble with these ballot you know these audits they said the audits didn’t find anything well if they’re auditing bad data that they don’t know
Is bad or compromised they’re just just reconfirming something terrible that happened in terms of potential fraud I mean it seems to me an obvious point but I’m glad a judge is confirming it using vulnerable um bmds the Dominion ballot marking devices for all in-person voters as Georgia does greatly magnifies
The security risk compared to jurisdictions that use handmark paper ballots to provide bmds to voters upon request and I know I know in a district of Colombia like for instance I would I don’t think it’s the same now so you had a choice to use a ballot marking device that was completely
Computerized right and um or they gave you a sheet and you could fill in the circles you know with your pencil as to your selections and you bring the sheet over to the ballot official and they’d run it through the scanner right those that’s probably a lot of the way a lot
Of jurisdictions vote that way and U what they’re saying here is that uh the the mo a more secure way to vote according to the expert the judge is citing approvingly is that uh ballot marking devices that are kind of available as an option are better uh
With with the option obviously to you know do uh paper ballots is more secure and I it makes certain amount of sense because you don’t know who’s going to be using the ballot marking device and it and it mitigates the risk I mean no election’s going to be perfect right you
Want reasonable steps to be taken to mitigate the risk of fraud okay and what this judge is concluding that there’s enough evidence to suggest those reasonable steps haven’t been taken in Georgia Statewide really significant decision don’t you think the critical vulner abilities of the icx and the wide variety of lesser
But still serious security issues indicate it was developed without sufficient attention to security during design software engineering and testing it would be extremely difficult to retrofit security into a system that was not initially produced with such a process boy oh boy and something which I didn’t
Quote is that the you know this we’ve talked about cisa right this cyber security infrastructure structure Security Administration and they were they’re supposed to be helping not spying on Americans and getting them censored helping uh through best practices and kind of warning people about cyber security risks related to elections that
Was one of the reasons it was set up it quickly kind of veered away from that but they looked at the Georgia election systems and noted some of these same vulnerabilities right and this was just recently and they didn’t say that we had evidence that there was fraud that took
Place and there’s a debate there but they said you there are these steps that you should take to mitigate the potential risk uh that cisa found which some of which Echoes here and the court noted that virtually none of what cisa recommended has been implemented by the state of
Georgia so this this is still a major risk and it’s less than a year before the election now or maybe just yeah less than a year whoa so the question is what can be done if they win a trial okay and um plainist carry a heavy burden to establish a
Constitutional violation connected to Georgia’s uh bmd ballot Market ballot marking devices electronic voting system whether in the manner which the state defendants have implemented the voting system IE that it imposes serious security voting risk and burdens impacting Planet voting rights or otherwise if planets Prevail at trial on
One or more of their claims there are pragmatic sound remedial policy measures that could be ordered or agreed upon by the parties such as one providing for the use of printed ballots for vote counting without the use of QR codes administering a broader scope and number of election audits to address vote count
Accuracy and other related issues and three implementing other essential cyber security measures and policies recommended by the nation’s leading cyber Security Experts and firms including Department of Homeland Security cisa so I got a question for you have you read anything or heard that a federal court in Georgia found that
Georg’s there’s enough evidence that Georgia’s voting systemus worried about their civil rights should be able to go to trial on it have you read anything or heard anything about these details that I just shared with you now knowing a lot of you you probably have because you’re diligent citizens
And are interested in these things but even if you are diligent you might have missed this this is a significant ruling and of course you know the left used to be concerned about computer systems related to voting until they thought that you know Trump might benefit from
It as I said the plist here send to be seem to be an odd mix of left right I don’t know and this judge is a left is is a liberal I think she’s the um judge totenberg I think she’s the sister of Nina totenberg the notorious NPR
Reporter very far- left woman doesn’t mean she’s far left but totenberg I think is a liberal jurist so this is an important decision don’t you agree so the next time tell someone tells you that your concerns about the security of these voting systems are without basis you should say well look at this
Decision here and I think it’s fair to ask your local election systems you know did you look at this are you doing better than them I think to you know Dominion I think even has a more secure system than this and I don’t think even George is using
It I think that was in the decision as well but this is an important decision and this is what I love about Judicial Watch and um the work uh we do via uh this broadcast because you’re never going to hear about this but for uson Judicial
Watch and I encourage you to share this information widely certainly if you’re in Georgia you should be asking what’s going on here what are we going to do about this I mean you should we shouldn’t have to wait for a trial for the government to address this to me this is significant
Enough for honest government officials to to begin an immediate audit of their systems to see what they can do to ensure that the election is going to be uh that you can have better confidence in the election outcome in Georgia given these security risks that have been outlined in this really powerful Court
Decision now we’ll provide a link to the court decision uh below so you can read it in full but uh boy oh boy I read that and I was floored you know because I’ve been vaguely aware of the debate uh and then I said what’s going on here
When I saw the decision and I read it and I went whoa I had to go back like two or three times to the top to make sure it was what I thought it was in terms of being a federal court and you know the significance of the
Findings now will they win a trial no but the judge found this is serious enough that you know Georgia’s protestations to the contrary that there know they’re there are wanting thanks for watching don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and like our video down Below
