In his book Stolen Elections, Ralph Pezzullo makes a convincing case that the software driving American voting machines originates in Venezuela. The argument used to justify keeping them is personal convenience. If Pezzullo is right, the risk of keeping them is a hostile foreign takeover of the United States government.
That is not a close call.
According to the book, Smartmatic software was created in Venezuela, by Venezuelans, for Hugo Chavez's communist dictatorship. Its genealogy runs from Smartmatic to US-based Sequoia Systems, to Canadian Dominion, and back to US-based Liberty Vote.
The allegation — supported by extensive documented ties between the principals and the Venezuelan government — is that the original source code persisted through every ownership change and rebranding, denials notwithstanding.
I am persuaded that the Venezuelan origin alone, regardless of every subsequent "innocent" explanation, is sufficient to disqualify every company in that chain from ever participating in a US election again.
Think of it as a drop of poison in the punch bowl. Maybe it's diluted. Maybe it settled in a corner. It doesn't matter: the poison went in, so throw out the bowl.
This makes me wonder why researchers like me ever bothered documenting the anomalies in detail. The origin should have ended the conversation.
That it hasn't — that no court has treated this as disqualifying — tells me the subject cannot get a fair hearing anywhere in the current system. Venezuela declared itself an enemy of the United States under Chavez. Simultaneously, they were building the election technology that would determine American leadership. How was that ever permitted?
One final detail from Pezzullo's book: the first US trial run was Cook County, Illinois — Chicago — during Obama's first election. That happens to be precisely when the algorithms I've identified in multiple state voter rolls first appear.
Coincidence?
@JoyceCarolOates made a poorly justified claim about President Trump today. I pointed it out. Eleven followers piled on. Then all of them — Oates included — blocked me. It's rare to have such an entertaining exchange with a cultural icon, so thanks for that.
I don't understand how there's no civil war when 250,000 daughters have been raped.
Is the British Army ISIS⁉️
What the hell are they protecting⁉️
Why don't they stage a coup⁉️
When they go home, do they cover their own wives and children with black cloth and do horrible things to them too⁉️
@Thorman_Lungie@jasmineweidenb1@JoyceCarolOates Well, I can't change your illusion of what kind of person the president is, but the reality of his words and deeds do not support your characterizations.
An interesting question, considering who I am. The quick answer is yes. I learned to read when I was around 2 or 3 years old, have always loved books, have written a few myself, have a PhD from King's College, London (thesis was published as a book), and have enjoyed Oates' work in the past.
My work isn't literature or fiction, but that doesn't impair my ability to enjoy the work of other writers. At one time, I preferred fiction. For the last twenty years or so, I prefer non-fiction, but that preference isn't exclusive.
I understand the implication you intended, that I hadn't ever read a book before, but it is illogical for someone who is writing on this platform and responding to other people's posts, not to mention my age, 60, which should inform anyone that I learned to read at a time when electronic mediums were very rare and inadequate for the purpose.
@muddaub@beetlecat@JoyceCarolOates You didn't see the one I saw yesterday, so you aren't in a position to opine. That said, physics tell us that anything that can block light (non-transparent) will cast a shadow, so yes, they do.
You are proving my point here, which I did not expect. Your dislike of President Trump led you to conclude that his praise for men is "latent homoeroticism" rather than noticing he praises everyone, everything, and even events in the same way, making the male-centered comments indistinguishable.
No. I made this after noticing that nose rings cast a shadow that look like little Hitler mustaches. I used AI because I didn't want a real person complaining to me. The real person I was looking at when I noticed this had a more pronouced "mustache" than in this AI image. Regardless, the point is less about its appearance than the fact that many of the people with nose rings belong to anti-fascist groups that are ideologically indistinguishable from German Nazis.
I've heard several stories like this of resistance within various institutions to Trump's interest in election integrity. This seems very plausible to me, that people within ODNI/CIA would try to protect guilty parties. Alternatively, they may have felt they were unfairly accused, but I think the former is more likely.
In his book Stolen Elections, Ralph Pezzullo makes a convincing case that the software driving American voting machines originates in Venezuela. The argument used to justify keeping them is personal convenience. If Pezzullo is right, the risk of keeping them is a hostile foreign takeover of the United States government.
That is not a close call.
According to the book, Smartmatic software was created in Venezuela, by Venezuelans, for Hugo Chavez's communist dictatorship. Its genealogy runs from Smartmatic to US-based Sequoia Systems, to Canadian Dominion, and back to US-based Liberty Vote.
The allegation — supported by extensive documented ties between the principals and the Venezuelan government — is that the original source code persisted through every ownership change and rebranding, denials notwithstanding.
I am persuaded that the Venezuelan origin alone, regardless of every subsequent "innocent" explanation, is sufficient to disqualify every company in that chain from ever participating in a US election again.
Think of it as a drop of poison in the punch bowl. Maybe it's diluted. Maybe it settled in a corner. It doesn't matter: the poison went in, so throw out the bowl.
This makes me wonder why researchers like me ever bothered documenting the anomalies in detail. The origin should have ended the conversation.
That it hasn't — that no court has treated this as disqualifying — tells me the subject cannot get a fair hearing anywhere in the current system. Venezuela declared itself an enemy of the United States under Chavez. Simultaneously, they were building the election technology that would determine American leadership. How was that ever permitted?
One final detail from Pezzullo's book: the first US trial run was Cook County, Illinois — Chicago — during Obama's first election. That happens to be precisely when the algorithms I've identified in multiple state voter rolls first appear.
Coincidence?
@jasmineweidenb1@JoyceCarolOates Oates' strong dislike for President Trump has polluted the quality of her reasoning. That affects the quality of writing. As we know, the quality of writing isn't based on style alone, but quality of content. Reasoning is part of that. If defective, so is the writing.
@NcFortwiter Not sure, I'll have to check. I have to buy some packaging materials and addressing them so I can send them out quickly when the cards arrive, which should be in about two weeks.
Honest bankers won't associate with certain customers due to reputational risk. The same principle applies here. Sequoia Systems had little choice — they were acquired by Smartmatic. But every subsequent buyer did have a choice, and the CFIUS national security review that forced Smartmatic to divest made the taint impossible to claim ignorance of. Any informed American buyer should have steered clear.
That a Canadian company stepped forward is itself telling. It is another foreign entity, which should be independently disqualifying. It also suggests that potential American suitors did stay away — quite possibly because they recognized the problem.
@RupertLowe10 Anyone that covered up for the rapes of little girls should be executed.
Regardless of political position.
Regardless of party.
Regardless of anything