The best part was when the prosecutor was like “you forgot to sentence her on count 6!”, and the judge was like, “Oh, yeah, lol, that’s another 15 months, lolol.”
It’s awesome to see these vote thieves get metaphorically strung up.
Well, to be fair, it’s mostly the True Believers 
that are getting hammered. You know, the ones that are getting caught breaking the law outside deeply protected State and Federal government members. You know. The little people.
If you’re grifting big time, but barely squeaking within the letter of the law, or riding your MAGA waves into positions far beyond your ability and skills, it’s a hugely winning approach.
And of course, the people voting for Trump/MAGA see most of this as proof positive that the They is real and out to get them, so push even harder.
It’s the inability (thanks SC(r)OTUS! says I with much Sarcasm) to hold those closer to the top accountable that is making it ever so much worse.
Where was that part? I wasn’t disbelieving you, I just didn’t read that in the article.
Another judge cutting straight through all the bullshit – MAGA insanity and indefatigable gaslighting notwithstanding.
From the linked article:
All but Aileen Cannon know the score.
That’s a very unhappy judge. Countdown until Trump mentions her.
Aside from the insane number of threats that judges and their families have gotten because of Trump/MAGA, there’s also the metaphysical certainty that many of these jurists are deeply proud of and committed to the institutions they represent and the roles they serve.
And none more demagogic and iconoclastic than Trump has done everything in his power to weaken, neuter, undermine, and sow distrust in the institutions that – in sum – represent our democracy.
Because … authoritarianism.
I like the judges who don’t put a whole lot of effort into disguising their contempt and righteous indignation when facing these pieces of shit who threaten to do them, their profession, and the foundational elements of our democracy such profound harm 
Heck, I missed the whole video link in this thread! 
(Still haven’t seen it.) So I did a search.
It’s at the 19:30 point of this video.
And her lawyer did not seem prepared.
How do you prepare for being slammed to the mat?
A lawyer for a MAGA type, not ready for court? That’s unpossible!
You can’t just do whatever you want without consequences. Otherwise people would have done it before. They’re gonna find out what happens.
If this summary is true, then this is deeply disturbing. An open and democratic electoral system should not rely on proprietary software that the public is not allowed to scrutinize, and any such software that can be subverted simply by having access to the source code was never secure to begin with. If there was any “security breach” here, surely it was on the part of the vendor and the government for providing and purchasing such a fragile system.
She didn’t even hide what she did. She was proud of it. She thought she was being a hero and was going to save the country. And so she thought she was not only justified, but acting righteously.
She went on one of Mike Lindell’s freaking telethons and confessed her crimes for crying out loud.
I do IT for state government. I have access to extremely sensitive info too and I don’t take what I do lightly. People have to trust me or I can’t do my job. We need to have people in government we can trust or things will go wrong. You just can’t be totally protected from bad actors. That’s why what she did was so heinous.
If all she did was publish source code that ought to have been public to begin with, then I’m proud of what she did too, though I probably disagree with her political views.
I do IT for state government. I have access to extremely sensitive info too and I don’t take what I do lightly.
The source code for voting software should never be considered “extremely sensitive info”. It should be something any voter can review so that they can, if they wish, satisfy themselves that votes are being counted fairly.
We need to have people in government we can trust or things will go wrong.
Yes, but the people the government employs to count votes do not fall into this category; this is why democratic countries invite observers to the count. The same argument should hold when it’s a machine that does the counting.
I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I do agree that there’s a lot about how electronic balloting has been implemented in various jurisdictions in the US that’s pretty hinky, and a lot of room for improvement. But a detailed discussion on that topic might be best suited for another thread. In the context of this thread, what she did is not just firmly against the law, it’s far outside the boundaries of what’s reasonable for election transparency, and she deserves every one of those nine years.
She gave the information to Mike Lindell, an ally of trump. She didn’t give it to Joe Biden.
I don’t know if that counts as publishing the source code.
I’d like to reply to these, but it seems a probable hijack. Is there a better thread to discuss open source code for voting machines?
The most recent discussion appears to be this one:
It starts out in the context of a specific election but rather quickly shifts into an examination of electronic voting in general. It didn’t last very long, though, so it’s not much of a conversational archive. Definitely better than this thread as a home for further consideration, though, I think.
County Government GIS here. Years ago a sys admin was pulled over for a DUI. He threatened the cop “I could delete all your data, all your files”
When he came to work the next day, he did not find a computer. He found an empty box on his desk “Get you shit and get out of here”. All credentials to sensitive info was changed immediately. We also take it very, very seriously.