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Does the FTP server print out paper ballots which voters then review and manually scan in a machine? If not then it's totally irrelevant.

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How do you think the tallied paper ballots get sent along after being scanned into a machine? FTP comes to mind...

They are physically transported to a central tabulation center on memory cards. The machines aren't connected to the internet.

Check out page 20 of this document [0] produced by Dominion. It clearly shows FTP being used to transfer tallied vote data from remote polling sites to central sites.

Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

[0] https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/sys...

Dominion works off of dongles and file transfers.

If you're curious about the DVS topology: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/sys...

For early voting reports. Paper ballots are tallied for official results.

A vulnerability in the FTP software, which I don't believe you've provided any proof was actually exploited in the wild during the elections, makes 0 difference to official results.

They never claimed it was exploited in the wild nor that it affected the results of the 2020 US election .

I mean that was obviously the implication of the original comment in this chain.

No, no it wasn't. Like the previous poster (ficklepickle), I didn't read that the OPs post to mean that either.

Then what was the point of the comment?

With all of the controversy (real or imagined) surrounding the recent elections I think the company who makes the voting machines having an open exploit like this is a bad look.

No one is saying they were hacked this way but it definitely can be used as fodder to bolster election fraud claims (real or imagined.)

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