{"id":46398,"date":"2019-05-26T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46398"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:34:04","slug":"microsofts-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46398","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"ElectionGuard<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft\u2019s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections\t<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex \u2014 it\u2019s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, \u2018here come in and take whatever you want.\u2019 It\u2019s obviously dangerous.\u201d \u2014 Investigative journalist Yasha Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E<\/strong>arlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to \u201cprotect\u201d American elections from interference, which it has named \u201cElectionGuard.\u201d The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the mainstream media in recent weeks, none of those reports have disclosed that ElectionGuard has several glaring conflicts of interest that greatly undermine its claim aimed at protecting U.S. democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this investigation, MintPress<\/em> will reveal how ElectionGuard was developed by companies with deep ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and Israeli military intelligence, as well as the fact that it is far from clear that the technology would prevent foreign or domestic interference with, or the manipulation of, vote totals or other aspects of American election systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election forensics analyst and author Jonathan Simon as well as investigative journalist Yasha Levine, who has written extensively on how the military has long sought to weaponize public technologies including the internet, were consulted for their views on ElectionGuard, its connections to the military-industrial complex and the implication of those connections for American democracy as part of this investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, MintPress<\/em> published an expos\u00e9<\/a> that later went viral on a news-rating company known as Newsguard. Officially aimed at fighting \u201cfake news,\u201d the company\u2019s many connections to U.S. intelligence, a top neoconservative think tank, and self-admitted government propagandists revealed its real intention was to promote corporate media over independent alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft\u2019s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections \u201cThe fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex \u2014 it\u2019s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, \u2018here come in and take whatever you want.\u2019 It\u2019s obviously dangerous.\u201d \u2014 Investigative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,25967,25966,528,5906,22021,19025],"class_list":["post-46398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-election-technology","tag-electionguard","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-us-intelligence","tag-whitney-webb","tag-yasha-levine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46399,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46398\/revisions\/46399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}