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For more than two decades, two men in Huntsville, Alabama, have quietly held the keys to America’s voting machines.
First, there was Shawn Southworth, who floated from lab to lab like a ghost in a white coat. Certifying code he didn’t test, using scripts he didn’t write, for companies that paid him not to ask questions. When one lab got shut down, he surfaced at another. The name on the door changed. He didn’t. From Wyle Labs to Nichols Research to PSINet to Metamore to CIBER INC, and eventually, back to Wyle.
Then came Jack Cobb, real name Ryan Jackson Cobb, Southworth’s quiet shadow.
Today, Cobb runs Pro V&V, one of just two private labs entrusted to decide whether the machines used in U.S. elections are secure, reliable, and accurate.
His lab signs off on critical software updates. His word alone determines whether changes are too small to test, or too dangerous to ignore. Whether the voting machines are secure and trustworthy, or just signed off by someone who says they are.
Hi there. It’s us again, popping into your inbox to remind you that the 2016 and 2024 elections were stolen and that elections have been rigged for decades, since the electronic election equipment companies were founded and became part of the far-right ecosystem.
But don’t take our word for it. Watch these short, two- to three-minute videos and listen to what these computer programmers, election experts, and reporters had to say about the 2000 and 2004 elections.
In October 2000, computer programmer Clint Curtis wrote a vote-flipping prototype for Florida Congressman Tom Feeney that would flip the vote 51–49:
Cliff Arnebeck: “Mr. Curtis, are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?”
Clint Curtis: “Yes.”
Arnebeck: “How do you know that to be the case?”
Clint Curtis: “Because, in October 2000, I wrote a prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney.”
Arnebeck: “It would rig an election?”
Clint Curtis: “It would flip the vote 51–49.”
Against the horrific high- and low-tech butchery of Palestinians and Lebanese by Israeli ethno-nationalist psychopathic killers, this week there will be an effort in Congress to formally merge or integrate the military of Israel and the United States at the most advanced levels.
Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act of 2027, provides for an unprecedented unification. The nearly $4 billion in the NDAA for Israel’s offensive efforts pales next to Israel having direct access to determining use of $1.5 trillion in annual military resources of the United States.
Money can be appropriated one year and withdrawn the next. Institutional integration is permanent.
Section 219 creates permanent mechanisms through which military planning, intelligence sharing, weapons development, procurement, research, artificial intelligence, and strategic coordination become increasingly intertwined between the United States and Israel.
It is a proposal to embed another nation’s military establishment within the long-term planning and strategic architecture of the United States government.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn came as a complete shock to white America. Today we must worry about an even greater shock with an essentially infinite radioactive death toll.
The stunning defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry came on the Great Plains at the hands of the Lakota warrior-chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse on June 25, 1876, 150 years ago this month.
The U.S. was in the throes of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Its centerpiece was a huge global exposition in Philadelphia, which bragged to the world about America’s technological innovations.
The military defeat came as an astonishing, very public gut punch to American arrogance and pride. It was epitomized by Custer, the celebrated son of Monroe, Michigan, where his statue still stands in the town square, a short distance from the Fermi Atomic Power Plant.
Fermi Unit One nearly blew up on October 5, 1966. Unit Two has recently been threatened by fire, an “incident” potentially capable of irradiating much of the Great Lakes and continental U.S.
ABC reporter Abigail Velez didn’t just misspeak before the World Cup match between the U.S. and Bosnia and Herzegovina — she proudly advertised her ignorance. On air, she declared, “One thing about Bosnia — I could not point out where it is on a map. I don’t know the first thing about Bosnia, and I don’t want to know. That’s because Team USA — we’re back, we’re better than ever.”
This wasn’t patriotism. It was arrogance dressed up as enthusiasm. And it was an embarrassment not only to ABC, but to the United States.
If Velez truly wanted to celebrate Team USA, she could have done so without mocking an entire nation. Instead, she chose to brag about not knowing basic geography — something any responsible journalist should consider a minimum requirement. To help her out, I sent her a message on Twitter with the flag and map of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with its neighboring countries. It took me seconds. She could have done the same, but she apparently preferred flaunting ignorance over doing her job.
No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his takeover of the Institute of Peace, his seizure of the District of Colombia’s public golf courses, and a declaration two weeks ago that he continues to consider awarding himself a Congressional Medal of Honor. How a draft dodger comes up with that proposal remains a mystery as one does have to serve in the armed forces of the United States of America to qualify.
🗣️Hot topic: I cannot express how maddening it is to listen to influential people with massive platforms tell their audiences that we can "be like Hungary" if we just show up in November and play the same game, only bigger.
Hungary does not use electronic election equipment.
The election equipment and reporting systems in the U.S. are compromised. Election security experts have been telling Congress and the American people this for decades.
The election equipment has been housed in a privately held far-right ecosystem since the 1970s and was deployed nationwide through HAVA in 2002 so the GOP could continue rigging elections.
We aren't going to vote out the mafia.
🚨State legislatures need to pass legislation to remove the election equipment and take us back to the pre-Reagan days of paper ballots, hand-counted totals, and phoning in the results.
Too hard to get state legislators on board? Then governors can use their emergency powers to defer to paper ballot contingency voting methods in November.
Protest is now terrorism, Texas tells us. And green is now blue, at least in reflecting pools. Small victories: the Knicks did it in five, matching Iran’s win (in months). (Maybe.) Meanwhile, the Trumpistrate has switched from destroying the oceans to defending lung cancer. And housing for the homeless is held hostage by the Voter Fraud Hoax. Curiouser….