Election officials in North Carolina and Maryland are scrutinizing top voting system vendors for potential foreign ownership, demanding more transparency after revelations of Russian penetration into 2016 election systems and a Russian oligarch’s majority investment in an election data firm used by Maryland.
Facing national scrutiny and a legally-mandated deadline of Dec. 1 to decertify its current paperless voting machines, which security experts say could be more vulnerable to an electronic attack and lack an auditable paper trail, the North Carolina State Board of Elections earlier this month set a Friday noon deadline for the nation’s top voting system vendors vying for the bid to disclose more details about their private ownership structure.
In mid-June the state requested the vendors, Election Systems & Software , Hart InterCivic Inc., and Clear Ballot, disclose “any owners or shareholders with a 5 percent or greater interest or share in the company, any subsidiary companies and the vendor’s parent company.” “Since 2011, Hart has been owned by HIG Capital... [b]ased in Miami,” wrote Steven C. Sockwell, vice president of marketing for the Austin-based firm, in an email.
One solution paper ballots. EVERYWHERE.
Just make Trump play a game of basketball against Cory Booker whoever wins gets to be president.
Paper Ballots! It’s the only way.
That moment when the Left worries about foreign interference in our elections while importing illegals into liberal states to pad electoral votes. Foreign interference from Russia is bad but foreign interference from Mexico is just peachy. Duly noted.
Ya think ? Duh 🙄
.It’s not just Maryland. It’s just that Maryland is paying attention, unlike the numerous States already compromised by the Republican Party. Citizens United continues to undermine national security. This happens when they’ve also stolen the Judicial Branch.
Foreign or Ivanka Trump owned?
Nationally, there are about 3.5 million EXTRA names on voting rolls. LA County began process of removing 1.59 million of them.
ROFL!
P-A-P-E-R ballots!!!
WTF!? These states don't even know where their voting machines are coming from or who owns the software!? How can they be so negligent and reckless!? In a democracy, election machines are kind of important. 😡
Absolutely a necessity. Electronic machines can be easily rigged to manipulate results. But why scrutinize foreign investment only? Plenty of domestic investors would LOVE to tamper with results. WE NEED STRONGER SAFEGUARDS!
Soros, Pelosi, and other Democrats should not be owning any of them.
Sounds like scrutiny using their '5 percent or greater interest or share in the company, any subsidiary companies and the vendor’s parent company” will also catch relatives, like a daughter of candidate, and/or political party operatives.
Paper ballots can resolve all this
Absolutely a necessity electronic machines can be easily rigged to manipulate results. But why scrutinize foreign investment only? Plenty of domestic investors would LOVE to tamper with results. WE NEED STRONGER SAFEGUARDS!
also make sure republicans arent messing with votes again
It. Never. Ends.
Also make sure no illegals or deceased ppl are registered to vote. 😐
All this occurred during the Obama administration everybody news of the foreign ownership by George Soros the media all of a sudden shows interest in this fake news fake bullshit and phony fake narrative’s
Oh I got something for Putin
Each state will ultimately need to take control of protecting our elections on their own. It's obvious that the current federal administration has NO desire to deal with a problem it denies exists.
Scrutinization of only the top system vendors? Why aren't 'Election officials' viewed as the foxes guarding the doors of the nation's ballots? ALL voting system vendors and their systems should be scrutinized. As should ALL election officials.
Votes from Russia By IvankaTrump Coming soon...
Bahahaha
HandMarkedPaperBallots Mitch McConnell has REFUSED to sign bipartisan house bills that would secure our elections.
so russia built our voting machines? and we're just finding this out now? god, we suck at this.
I trust no private voting machine company, foreign- or American-owned. We need paper ballots with manual counting and audits, like Pennsylvania now has thanks to Jill Stein.
Who is looking into RussianBarbie’s trademark deal with China on voting machines? TrumpCamps BeBest
Let’s not forget China gave Ivanka trademark rights on voting machines.
What I'd like to know is what are the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida doing?
NBC You need to talk to jennycohn1 who has been screaming her lungs out about crap just like this & has REAMS of research. If our SenateGOP refuses to keep our elections safe we'll figure out how to do it ourselves. Microsoft said something about they've fixed our problem
Am I the only one who thinks this shouldn’t have been an after thought? WTH do we pay you people to do?
Why can’t voter machines be made in America? All that hype about other countries taking jobs away from Americans is absurd. There are so many businesses that can thrive in this country. American made voter machines should b mandatory.
The Republican response to this will be anger at the media for reporting it.
Private companies are running voting machines that face less regulation than slot machines. Trump and GOP is enabling this. It’s a power grab.
How about, and go with me here, instead of machines we simply use paper ballots? Can't hack a piece of paper.
What a scary story! 😭
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