Maricopa County, Arizona will discontinue its use of voting machines due to concerns that they have been compromised by contractors for the state’s politicized “audit” of its 2020 election results, the county said Monday.
Good, as long as the sue the pants off of CyberDingys for the replacement costs, and punitive damages.
Sue for replacement costs, they damaged the equipment
I’m sure Maricopa County can sell the machines to the local GOP for use in their primaries, now that they “know how the machines work”, if you know what I mean.
Maricopa County getting new machines is necessary but not sufficient. There’s no telling what vulnerabilities the Cyber Ninjas discovered, with unfettered access and the ability to reverse engineer the whole system.
Dominion should be furiously re-engineering their motherboards and rewriting their software to prevent the exact kind of election fraud that Republicans claim to be looking for while actually wanting and intending to commit it themselves. Arizona Republicans should be sued for the full cost of patching the whole nation.
somewhat o-t
Fortunately we are dealing with idiots here… I don’t think they could reverse engineer a Subway roast beef sandwich…
perhaps use this as an opportunity to see who puts their hands in the cookie jar, rewrite software to catch those seeking access to the machines and how they do it, could prove valuable moving forward
This is not hard. Let Maricopa county eat the $3MM, and hit the county residents with a surcharge to pay for it. Whether a particular resident wanted this audit clownshow or not, that’s irrelevant. They all need to feel the pain. Then maybe, just maybe, when people realize they’re forking over their hard-earned money because some fat loser refuses to grow the fuck up they’ll realize that they’ve hitched their wagon to a failure who will only drag them all down.
But their FSB controllers can.
@fgs
Since the machines were leased from Dominion then the machines should go back to Dominion. Now if the AZ GOP wants to pay for the remainder of the lease then the machines, then send the machines without the guts to the AZ GOP.
And just HOW MUCH has this ‘independently funded audit’ COST the taxpayers so far? We know they’ll be paying to new machines. ‘Cyber ninjas’ indeed. Now you SEE it, now you don’t.
You beat me to it…
County ought to get the money out of the GOP to replace the voting machines.
Except Dominion shouldn’t have to eat this. It wasn’t their fault and their business has been so negatively impacted. Destroy the innards and make the AZ GQP pay the leasing fees in fill.
Shit Dominion ought to sue the county.
They should sue every crazy ass QGPer in AZ as an example to other states contemplating pulling the same dumb ass stunt.
My take is a little different. This kind of thing should put Dominion and all other voting machine suppliers out of business, while every state moves to vote by mail instead. Like we do here in WA and other states.
I know there are too many entrenched interests for that to happen overnight, but at least the pandemic has made a small shift in that direction. Eventually maybe we’ll get there. Standing in line to vote on a machine is stupid, when there are better options that expand the franchise.
Sweets for the sweet.
Nuts for the nuts.
Gutless for that gutless.