They included a recommended forensic team which was smart. That team chose a config audit which I listed. Letting a bunch of Ga Tech people poke the damn machines like a dead possum on the table is freaking negligent.
Plus it isn’t the SoS job to prove the damn machines work. It is only their responsibility to insure the machine configuration matches the SoS approved config list which they dud. They did their duty. It’s up to others to attack the function of the reference design if they desire but it’s not the SoS job to defend that reference design it is the mfgr job.. Enter Powell.
Off to bed just took my pain killer.
You’re saying that’s all that was done. That’s not apparent. This was one process. The process for ensuring no election hacking or outside interference (see the last line of the release: “there are no signs of cyber attacks or election hacking.”)
The statement lists multiple groups (“We have partnered with the Department of Homeland Security, the Georgia Cyber Center, Georgia Tech security experts, and wide range of other election security experts around the state and country so Georgia voters can be confident that their vote is safe and secure.”) that were involved in election security and then singles out the activities of one specific group as part(or all) of this single audit.
First, it’s not on me or anybody else to disprove Sidney Powell.
The state legislative/regulatory process devised a system to certify equipment for use in their elections. They also produced a system of other failsafes (observers, paper ballots, legal penalties, etc) to detect, deter, and prevent fraud. That legislative process was a result of a lengthy national debate over federalizing election security. A debate that Republicans won when they advocated delegating that managerial responsibility to the states.
Given that elections are how we grant authority to our government, then anyone saying that this process produced an invalid result is saying that our entire theory of government is invalid.
At the very least, she bears a very high burden of proof. She has, so far, shown none.
Second, the hand counting of Georgia’s ballots will show whether or not they were manipulated by an algorithm. There will be some discrepancies due to human error and newly discovered fraudulent votes, but fraud on the scale of 10k+ ballots would show up in a manual recount.
Once that’s over with, Powell and everybody else will move on to something new. We’ve already seen one guy do that, tonight. Apparently I convinced him the algorithm wasn’t feasible so now he’s saying Fulton County must have printed ballots.* Because this isn’t about validating an election, it’s about complaining about an unsatisfactory result.
*- I hope this is the next big theory. That’ll be funny to watch engineers explain why Biden didn’t get more votes then Hillary in the counties that cheated to help him win.