Maryland voter registration systems use software from Russia-financed firm - Polidicks

http://www.wbaltv.com/article/maryland-voter-registration-system-runs-on-russian-owned-software-i-team-learns/22144023 In (possibly) related news: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-voting-snafu-update-20180625-story.html "The FBI gave this office important information about a vendor the State Board of Election uses to host various election systems. This vendor -- ByteGrid LLC -- hosts the statewide voter registration, candidacy, and election management system, the online voter registration system, online ballot delivery system, and unofficial election night results website. According to the FBI, ByteGrid LLC is financed by AltPoint Capital Partners, whose fund manager is a Russian and its largest investor is a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin." Maryland is also know to be one of the locations Russian Intelligence targeted during the 2016 elections, specifically in August of 2016. It is claimed that their systems were not breached.

"And it's largest investor is a Russian Oligarch named Vladimir Potanin." Okay, seriously? Does he look like Putin too, but just with a curly villainous moustache?

Another reason why we absolutely need to reform corporate law, so our enemies can't weaponize shell companies against us, though the rich would never give up their money laundering services.

Not happening unless Citizens United becomes the next decision where the Supreme Court's like "aw fuck I can't believe we've done this" and reverse it.

Nah, more like Putin in a 'fat suit' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Vladimir_Potanin.jpg That said, he's one of the 200 closest people to Putin and is Russia's 6th most wealthy man. He and Putin have met each other a lot. Potanin was inspired to develop the Rosa Khutor ski resort in the Mzymta valley near Sochi after skiing with Putin in Austria in 2003.[36] He invested more than $2 billion into the resort after Sochi was picked for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in 2007.[36][37] He allegedly urged Vladimir Putin to approve expansion in the area to create a “Russian Courchevel”, despite oppositional pressure from environmental groups who claimed it would further damage the region.[38] Worth noting that a lot of their relationship, Putin and Potanin, is Putin chewing Potanin out. Putting pressure on him to clean his business up, telling him off on business deals that he reneged on, and so forth.

its part of his failed clone project, so now he's just an underling.

I want off of this timeline, Jesus Christ.

Maryland is still a blue state so the software must not have been as compromised as it could be. Of course Maryland borders DC so the feds should really get on security in Virginia and Maryland once Putin's friends get flushed out.

Oh, I imagine this was but a testbed state, where they first honed all their tech, tactics, and familiarized themselves with the US response to intrusion of those systems to better improve their technique and find vulnerabilities.

I'm hopeful for future elections since Russia funded Roy Moore in the past and he still lost. If Putin's all about disunity there could not be a better pick than that arse

Are electronic voting machines an extremely bad idea security-wise to begin with?

The truth is, not necessarily. Non-computerized hardware voting machines can be tampered with as well. Computerized ones do have a higher risk however in that they can actively hide their own tracks.

Honestly, the Irish could have done with Vladimir Potatin in the 19th century...

anything can be a bad idea when your government is incompetent