Election Fraud - Democracy: Unhampered Looting by Oligarchs - American Elections Controlled Out of Israel - ElectionGuard Trojan Horse - Insider Control Over US Elections - Military-Industrial Complex Friendly Candidates - Paper Ballots: State-of-the-Art Technology

Ed.'s note: We are going to do another blog post (see Bolshevik Communists Promise a Purge) on election fraud because unless America takes back full control over their elections this November, it will all be lost. As readers go through this article - then act - understand that Microsoft was turned over to Israel by Bill Gates. Microsoft is now telling us how ElectionGuard can "stop voting fraud to protect democracies." They can have their "democracies." Voting is to secure your rights as an individual, not for "preserving democracies."

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What have we seen with "democracy" in America? It has attained power by destroying your rights and has been turned into a weapon of the oligarchy. Democracy if there was any good outcome was always just a feeling and had nothing whatsoever to do with "equality" as being touted by the ruling oligarchy. Democracy has turned into the unhampered looting by the oligarchy class in America. And now the last dying breath of "democracy" is to steal the elections.

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Mint Press News correctly points out how Microsoft has "growing ties to Israel military intelligence." Microsoft that is behind ElectionGuard is all Israel where Microsoft depends on Israeli tech firms for its R&D. The Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract was handed off to Microsoft. That means Microsoft that is located in Israel with Israeli intelligence connections will be all over the Pentagon's systems. What is of concern is that Israel recently hasn't been able to come up with the brain power to support its "startup machine" efforts and have turned to Ukraine for their pool of talented programmers and engineers. This means Russian and Ukrainians are gaining access to American cybersecurity systems, software, microprocessing engineering and hardware.

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How should this be analyzed from America's national circumstances when Israel and China are working extremely close together on trade and technology along with increased Chinese investments in Israel's infrastructure (RAND Corp study 2020) and high tech? And since the article below points out how Israel has interfered in the elections in other countries, what does this tell us? Under President Trump, Israel was given the Pentagon Cloud contract via Microsoft Azure Cloud which is kept secure by the Microsoft Israeli team (Addalom), former Unit 8200 members and the Talpiot Program - Israeli Military Intelligence. President Trump recently stated the "unbelievable power of the military-industrial complex" but then leaves out Israel's participation in America's military infrastructure. Now read the title of Mint Press News' partially republished article below with emphasis on "Military Industrial Takeover of US Elections." The title should be: "Israel Military Industrial Takeover of US Elections."

ElectionGaurd is being sold as "Microsoft's most important product in 2020." Important for who? Israel? ElectionGuard isn't designed to make voting machines safe from hackers. It's meant to make hacking them pointless. Hacking isn't the concern and this is where everyone gets it wrong. It's the manipulation of data. Background: Shafrira "Shafi" Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award in 2012. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies and the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley. Cooperation between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Israel goes back a long way ostensibly with technology developed at MIT shared with institutions in Israel like the Technion Institute, the Weizmann Institute and Israel's IDF Unit 8200. Funds are generated to facilitate travel and sharing of technology between MIT and its counterparts in Israel including Lockheed Martin's involvement.

Obviously, an extremely bright and capable woman. It is Goldwasser's encryption algorithms (homomorphic encryption scheme) used in Microsoft's ElectionGuard system. Microsoft's ElectionGuard encryption system is based on what us called "homomorphic encryption," the idea is to be able to encrypt some data and then still perform some useful calculations or process the data without decrypting (and thus exposing) the data. Shafrira Goldwasser is behind Duality, a startup cybersecurity company located in New Jersey with connections back to Israel that can interpret and analyze data including A.I. without divulging raw data. Microsoft is telling Americans their voting system is broken and needs fixing. No thanks, use what America always had to prevent fraud and secure voting: paper ballots and not mailed in either. Even the think tank wonks at Brookings gets it right on this one. Paper is considered set-of-the-art voting technology.

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Team8 is a cybersecurity company based in Israel that is not only a think tank, but is also a venture group that builds and invests in companies specializing in enterprise technologies, data, AI and cybersecurity. Team8 is invested in Goldwasser's company Duality. Team8 was founded in 2014 by Ronni Zehavi, Liran Grinberg, Israel Grimberg and Nadav Zafrir, three former leaders of Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200. You have to start to wonder what is going on when retired US Naval Admiral Mike Rogers, who stepped down in 2018 as head of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, joined the board of advisors of Team8?

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Source: Mint Press News

Microsoft's ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

"The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it's like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, 'here come in and take whatever you want.' It's obviously dangerous." — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

by Whitney Webb | May 24, 2020

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to "protect" American elections from interference, which it has named "ElectionGuard." The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the mainstream media in recent weeks, none of those reports have disclosed that ElectionGuard has several glaring conflicts of interest that greatly undermine its claim aimed at protecting U.S. democracy.

In this investigation, MintPress will reveal how ElectionGuard was developed by companies with deep ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and Israeli military intelligence, as well as the fact that it is far from clear that the technology would prevent foreign or domestic interference with, or the manipulation of, vote totals or other aspects of American election systems.

Election forensics analyst and author Jonathan Simon as well as investigative journalist Yasha Levine, who has written extensively on how the military has long sought to weaponize public technologies including the internet, were consulted for their views on ElectionGuard, its connections to the military-industrial complex and the implication of those connections for American democracy as part of this investigation.

In January, MintPress published an exposé that later went viral on a news-rating company known as Newsguard. Officially aimed at fighting "fake news," the company's many connections to U.S. intelligence, a top neoconservative think tank, and self-admitted government propagandists revealed its real intention was to promote corporate media over independent alternatives.

Newsguard was among the first initiatives that comprise Microsoft's "Defending Democracy" program, a program that the tech giant created under the auspices of protecting American "democratic processes from cyber-enabled interference [which] have become a critical concern." Through its partnership with Microsoft, Newsguard has been installed in public libraries and universities throughout the country, even while private-sector companies have continued to avoid adopting the problematic browser plug-in.

Now, Microsoft is promoting a new "Defending Democracy" initiative — one equally ridden with glaring conflicts of interest — that threatens American democracy in ways Newsguard never could. ElectionGuard is touted by Microsoft as a system that aims to "make voting secure, more accessible, and more efficient anywhere it's used in the United States or in democratic nations around the world." It has since been heavily promoted by mainstream and U.S. government-funded media outlets in preparation for its use in the 2020 general election.

However, according to Jonathan Simon, election forensic analyst and author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy, this public relations campaign is likely just cover for more insider control over U.S. elections. "It's encouraging that after close to two decades of ignoring the security issues with computerized voting, there's suddenly a scramble to protect our next election that suggests those issues are finally being taken seriously," Simon told MintPress. "Unfortunately the proposed solution is just more computerization and complexity — which translates to more control by experts and insiders, though of course that is not part of the PR campaign."

As to the likely identity of those insiders, the fact that Microsoft's ElectionGuard was developed in tandem with a private military and intelligence contractor whose only investor is the U.S. Department of Defense offers a troubling clue. As a consequence, ElectionGuard's promise to "secure" elections is dubious, especially given that Microsoft itself is a U.S. military contractor. Furthermore, amid the unfolding scandal of Israeli meddling in foreign elections, Microsoft's growing ties to Israeli military intelligence and private Israeli cybersecurity firms raise even more concerns about whether ElectionGuard's real purpose is to "secure" American elections for candidates friendly to the establishment, especially the military-industrial complex.

Explaining ElectionGuard

According to an announcement made in early May by Tom Burt, Microsoft's Vice President for Customer Security and Trust, ElectionGuard is "a free open-source software development kit (SDK)" that "will make voting secure, more accessible, and more efficient anywhere it's used." Burt's statement further claims that the ElectionGuard system "will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party organizations for secure validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted." While ElectionGuard may appear to concern itself only with electronic ballots, the announcement states that the system "is designed to work with systems that use paper ballots" through the use of an optical scanner.

Notably, Microsoft chose to announce ElectionGuard only after it had already partnered "with major election technology suppliers who are exploring the integration of ElectionGuard into their voting systems." Burt further noted that Microsoft now has "partnerships with election technology suppliers responsible for more than half of the voting machines sold in the U.S." ElectionGuard partner companies include Democracy Live, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, BPro, MicroVote, and VotingWorks.

Another interesting, and deeply troubling, admission in the Microsoft announcement is that Microsoft's ElectionGuard development partner, the Portland-based cybersecurity firm Galois, "recently received $10 million in funding from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build a demonstration voting system to help evaluate secure hardware DARPA researchers are developing as part of a separate DARPA program."

Microsoft's announcement then notes that "the agency views ensuring the integrity and security of the election process as a critical national security concern and plans to implement the ElectionGuard SDK as part of their effort to enable an end-to-end verifiable component in future versions of their demonstration voting system."

As deeply troubling as DARPA's $10 million indirect investment in ElectionGuard may seem, it is merely scratching the surface, as Galois itself is essentially an extension of DARPA in the private cybersecurity industry.

Please go to Mint Press News to read the entire article - then act.
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There are any number of ways to steal an election through voting fraud and this is just one example.

Eisenhower's "wtf" speech.