SC Pathway to Safe Elections
South Carolinians have lost local control of their elections to corporations and governments via centralization
WHEREAS, Ensuring the integrity of our voting and election administration is critical and foundational to
maintaining a civil and decent society decentralized from a federal government as the Founders intended;
Increased involvement of our state and federal government and other NGOs (DHS, CISA, CIS) via centralization has increased over the last 20+ years. American voters don’t trust or want their government agencies in the back end of their voting systems. This provides an opportunity for potential infiltration by nefarious actors, both foreign and domestic. Recent press regarding ongoing intrusion of our systems by Albert sensors is of particular concern. Furthermore, voting system manufacturers have total access to our data and we don’t have the ability to review the machines or source codes in depth.
Did you know that electronic voting systems can be hacked even if they aren’t connected to the internet? There are proven vulnerabilities that have been documented by local cyber experts as well as CISA.
Here is a great video about how easily these systems can be attacked.
And elections have been hacked for decades as testified by Clint Curtis who was paid to program the election in a candidate’s favor. He stated that it would be impossible for election officials to detect unless they saw the source code—which of course they don’t have access to.
NOTE: It’s not just a Dominion problem: ES&S, DOMINION AND HART INTERCIVIC are on similar platforms so issues with any one of these systems are going to be seen in the others.
All SC qualified electors should have the option of voting on a secure paper ballot hand-marked and hand-counted and this system should be available in the event of an emergency.