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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.

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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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