Lindell peddling election machine 'security' device; voting officials aren't biting

[struggle4progress]

By Laura Romero
November 3, 2023, 9:42 AM

... Lindell says the wireless monitoring device ... is designed to detect if voting machines are connected to the internet ...

Lindell told ABC News that the monitoring devices have already been sent, at no charge, to election officials in several states including Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri ...

... election officials ABC News spoke with said that, generally speaking, Lindell's device is meant to solve a problem that doesn't exist ...

Beyond questions about the device's usefulness, election officials said that in order for any new technology to be used during elections, it must undergo a process of approval and testing. Lindell cannot "just send devices to clerks and expect them to be used," one election official told ABC News ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/election-officials-push-back-security-device-distributed-mike/story?id=104541850

[PatSeg]

1. What a truly pathetic little man

He is going to run out of ways to make a fool of himself.

[tanyev]

2. Totally 100% professional device for only 3 payments of $19.99!

[Think. Again.]

3. The only truly safe way to...

...use digital voting systems is by using open-source software systems that be can be read, but not rewritten, by anyone at any time.

So-called 'proprietary' software can be doing anything that a computer can do the votes, and no one would know except the for-profit company that sold the equipment.

Right now we have to rely on verification audits and we know how those can be blocked.

Bill gates offered open source voting software a few years ago, I have no idea what happened with that offer.