![]() ![]() If the prosecutors are correct, it means that even a highly secured, glass enclosed computer room with 24-hour-a-day security cameras, very limited access and rules requiring at least two people must enter at once, were not able to defeat a determined insider. It is a reasonable deduction to infer that defendant tampered with the camera equipment to have an opportunity to insert a thumbdrive into the RNG tower without detection." The cameras on that date recorded only one second per minute rather than running continuously like normal."Four of the five individuals who have access to control the camera's settings will testify they did not change the cameras' recording instructions," prosecutors wrote. Prosecutors said Tipton entered the so-called draw room on November 20, 2010, ostensibly to change the time on the computers. To prevent outside attacks, the computers aren't connected to the Internet. The room was enclosed in glass, could only be entered by two people at a time, and was monitored by a video camera. In court documents filed last week, prosecutors said there is evidence to support the theory Tipton used his privileged position inside the lottery association to enter a locked room that housed the random number generating computers and infect them with software that allowed him to control the winning numbers. In the lottery scheme cited by "Plumb Bob," prosecutors charge, according to Ars Technica, that it was an indeed an insider, the head of computer security for a state lottery association, who "tampered with lottery computers prior to him buying a ticket that won a $14.3 million jackpot."Īccording to prosecutors, the alleged perpetrator, 51-year old Eddie Raymond Tipton, "inserted a thumbdrive into a highly locked-down computer that's supposed to generate the random numbers used to determine lottery winners," before then purchasing the winning ticket at a local convenience store: ![]() ![]() It's almost always the insiders who have the access to game these systems most easily and with the least likelihood of detection. "There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries, such as gambling, where sophisticated insider fraud has occurred despite extraordinary measures to prevent it." "The greater threat to most systems comes not from external hackers, but from insiders who have direct access to the machines," the report noted. Nonetheless, among the findings put forward by the fake commission's final report was that it was not voters who were most likely to game the system with fraud, but election insiders. Indeed, the commission's "findings" are still cited by partisans today in support of restrictive Photo ID laws.Īs we reported, often exclusively at the time of the commission's creation and work, the entire matter was a sham. The purpose of the Baker/Carter Commission was not to make recommendations to avoid serious problems that occurred in several states during the 2004 Presidential election, most notably in Ohio, but to distract from those problems by putting forward a recommendation for polling place Photo ID restriction laws nationally. Supreme Court that millions of Florida votes in 2000 should never be counted) for a patina of officialdom, President Carter was somehow hoaxed into joining him as co-chair. Baker III (the man who successfully convinced the U.S. The phony 2004 commission was co-chaired by Bush-family consigliere James A. The 2000 commission was co-chaired by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. The scheme was meant to look a lot like the official blue-ribbon National Commission on Federal Election Reform, created by Congress after the disputed 2000 Presidential election to offer recommendations on how to avoid a similarly disastrous election in the future. ![]() "Plumb Bob" is, of course, absolutely right.īut there's far more to this story that should be used as a huge takeaway for those partisans and profiteers who continue to push not just for electronic voting, but for Internet Voting, even as a recent Internet Voting scheme in Australia's New South Wales was found to be vulnerable to manipulation and has resulted, as predicted, in an election with some 66,000 votes that many feel may have been tampered with.Īfter the disputed 2004 Presidential election, a private panel calling themselves the "Commission on Federal Election Reform" was formed by some highly placed George W. ![]()
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