Reports emerged early afternoon today that the Total Vote system in South Dakota had crashed. As of time this is being published, the system has been restored with no explanation from the Secretary of State’s office.
South Dakota Canvassing Group was the first to ring the alarm…
Also seeing Logic & Accuracy tests trickling in for review and there seems to be a few issues…
McPherson County GOP coming thru with a WIN for election integrity! SD BOE member and McPherson County Auditor forced to re-test to come into compliance with state law before using the machines!! This is how we do it team!
COUNTY OFFICIALS BLOCKING ACCESS TO LOGIC AND ACCURACY TESTING REPORTS!! Why would they do that? Because review of the Primary Election test reports showed non-compliant machine testing. Moody County Sheriff BLOCKING ACCESS to these reports!
Via SD Canvassing on X: https://x.com/SDCanvass/status/1852453770581426455
Pennsylvania and Oregon both signed $10+ Million contracts with Bpro/Knowink for their Total Vote software package. Both PA and OR have had serious problems with Bpro/Knowink, specifically their inability to meet security requirements. So much so that PA cancelled their $10+ million contract and have yet to receive all the funds back from Bpro/Knowink. Our research found extremely concerning issues reported by Gartner, Inc, who was contracted for project development and implementation oversight. From the Gartner 2023 Oregon Assessment: “Platform Stability – The State still had concerns about items related to Operations & Maintenance, Security, Disaster Recovery. The Oregon Votes solution is being built on a re-platformed version of an older BPro solution, and Oregon will be one of the first customers to use this solution. Although this solution is built on previously deployed and tested software, there is considerable risk that this new product will not be as optimized due to the fact it hasn’t been previously deployed, and battle tested.” “Regression Testing: This continues to be a problem. Every time a new release is uploaded something in the previous release(s) breaks. It is unclear if this is due to insufficient testing or if there are issues with the Core Functionality. In any case this must be corrected.” “Most Counties in Oregon lack confidence in the new system based on testing / training sessions conducted in August 2023 – Concerns from the State over the ability to validate the Security configuration of the new system as its being hosted and maintained by KNOWiNK. The security concerns are related to the Microsoft Azure platform hosting the data in the cloud.” (emphasis added) One network engineering expert summed up the project: “Oregon is buying a brand new $10 million dollar system and getting an old system with band-aids and patches on it.” With the 2024 election cycle rapidly approaching, can any of the states using KNOWiNK software applications be confident in a safe and secure election when the vendor clearly cannot meet today’s security standards in Pennsylvania and Oregon? This is your system that crashed today South Dakota. We tried to warn you. No one would listen.
