[EL] Guccifer2.0 on election rigging

[Paul Ryan]

Jon,

If the following is a dumb question, please pardon my ignorance. I'm not at all familiar with hacking and how hackers do their thing.

Given that the FEC plays no role in administering elections--its authority and work is limited to regulating the financing of federal elections--how would "software installed in the FEC networks" enable/allow hacking of the elections, which are administered by the 50 states?

Also, the article you liked to contains purportedly quoted content from the Guccifer 2.0 blog post, stating that Guccifer 2.0 claims to "have registered in the FEC electronic system as an independent election observer; so [he could] monitor that the elections are held honestly."  To my knowledge, the FEC has no role in coordinating any sort of "election observers."

What am I missing? Does the FEC have some secret involvement in states' administration of elections?  Or is this just part of the effort to stir up unfounded fear and paranoia about the integrity of the elections underway?

Paul Seamus Ryan
Vice President, Policy & Litigation
Common Cause
(202) 262-7315

On Nov 5, 2016, at 7:54 AM, "jon.roland at constitution.org<mailto:jon.roland at constitution.org>" <jon.roland at constitution.org<mailto:jon.roland at constitution.org>> wrote:

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/hacker-guccifer-2-0-warns-he-has-info-from-inside-fec-democrats-may-rig-the-elections_11042016

Before the recent torrent of daily Podesta email dumps brought renewed attention to Wikileaks (and accusations Julian Assange was working with the Kremlin despite his recent denial, which ultimately cost him his internet access), the media's attention was closely focused on the recently emerged hacker known as Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be behind the hacking of the nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and other documents distributed over the summer by WikiLeaks, and who likewise was accused of cooperating with Russia.

Earlier today, after a two week silence, Guccifer 2.0 reemerged, with a post on his blog, <https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/info-from-inside-the-fec-the-democrats-may-rig-the-elections/> in which he alleges that he has information from inside the Federal Election Commission, according to which "democrats may rig the elections." He then adds "this may be possible because of the software installed in the FEC networks by the large IT companies."

It is unclear what FEC information the hacker was in possession of, or was referring to, and how he intends to observe the elections. A recent video by Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting provided a real-time demo of the GEMS vote-fraud system, "fraction magic," an election theft mechanism with context and explanation. There is much more detail on the BlackBoxVoting website<http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/>.

The demonstration below used a real voting system and real vote databases and takes place in seconds across multiple jurisdictions. Over 5000 subcontractors and middlemen have the access to perform this for any or all clients. It can give contract signing authority to whoever the user chooses. All political power can be converted to  the hands of a few anonymous subcontractors. It's a product. It's scaleable. It learns its environment and can adjust to any political environment, any demographic. It runs silently, invisibly, and can produce plausible results that really pass for the real thing.

It is possible that this is the process that Guccifer is referring to, although we are merely speculating. We are confident he will provide more detail shortly.

While we wait, watch the following video explaining how elections can be (and perhaps are) rigged.


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-- Jon

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