ROGER KIMBALL: Recounts Needed to Settle Dominion’s Role, and the Election.
It turns out that your opinion about Dominion Voting Systems depends not only on who you are but when you are asked.
If you zip way back to December 2019, then, if you are Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, or Amy Klobuchar, you are very worried about their security.
Back then, these high-minded public servants wrote letters warning that these widely used voting systems were “prone to security problems.” “We are particularly concerned,” they wrote, that “voting machines and other election administration equipment, ‘have long skimped on security in favor of convenience.’”
That was in December of last year—the good old days when NBC, for example, warned about “Chinese parts” and “hidden ownership” of the machines. . . .
“Chinese manufacturers,” they noted, “can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies,” not to mention “the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering.”
As I say, that was a year ago.
Today, post-Nov. 3, 2020, you don’t hear the Democrats worrying out loud about the security of the machines that counted (not to say manufactured) the votes that led to Joe Biden’s apparent victory.
On the contrary, to raise questions now about Dominion Voting Systems and the software that powers them, as Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and others have done, is to obstruct “democracy” and promulgate “conspiracy theories.”
Zip back to 2006, and you find CNN running stories about how vulnerable electronic voting systems are to interference and hacking. Back then, the watchword was “Democracy for sale.”
Honestly, our whole voting system needs an overhaul. If we ran systems with the integrity of those we impose on nations we’ve conquered — photo ID, purple fingers, votes counted openly at each voting location, etc. — there wouldn’t be any concern with fraud. That we don’t do that at home tells you a lot about the political class’s priorities.
And it doesn’t help that the press is more interested in maintaining and policing narratives — even when they shift 180 degrees overnight — than in reporting facts.