Open to-do for those interested in the #Texas governance marketplace and/or #VRSystems: Call the TX SecState's office (runs TEAM), ask,e.g.:

* How many counties of 254 are now contracted to VR
* When do those contracts go into effect
* When do the TEAM connections expire
* Who manages the overlaps?

County considers agreement with voting technology firm on Tuesday Voting technology to register voters and manage elections would be covered by the agreement.

Today #BexarCounty, #Texas reconsiders if #VRSystems in #Florida should provide county with Voter Focus, the company's flagship Election Management System offering (incl. #vote registration). Debate revolves around who's-responsible-for-what text in potential contract. Locals or faraway vendor?

Read about the VR Systems No-No Ballot Bug that Ron DeSantis Didn't Want Trump to See. thecrabbernews.substack.com/p/the-vr-sys...
#NoNoBallot #Trump #DeSantis #VRSystems

Half a Million Broken Ballots: The Bipartisan Lawsuits Florida Wants to Bury Florida’s elections run on corrupted data. Half a million ballot records falsified — and officials certified them anyway.

Florida has an election problem. Corrupted data feeds elections. What’s being done to fix it? Read more from Big Mouth Media Senior Staff Writer Danika Joy Fornear. #electionintegrity #elections #florida #politics #VRsystems

www.bigmouthmediafl.com/post/half-a-...

This letter concerns your appeal of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) response to your FOIA request 2023-NPFO-00156. As set forth below, I am AFFIRMING CISA’s response. Pursuant to an interagency agreement, the United States Coast Guard Office of the Chief Administrative Law Judge is reviewing FOIA appeals for the DHS General Counsel’s Office. Therefore, the Office of the Chief Administrative Law Judge will be rendering the official appeal decision on behalf of DHS. In your FOIA request, you reference that on May 16, 2019, the Tallahassee-based elections vendor VR System wrote a 4-page letter to Senator Ron Wyden. In that letter,

News in my Reality Winner #FOIA cases)

Sept. 2, 2025 decision I received pertains to cybersecurity review of Tallahassee-based #VRSystems, a voting vendor lately moving into the #Texas 'governance marketplace' due to county #vote decisions (3-page PDF): douglaslucas.com/files/Realit...

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The Voting Vendor in Reality Winner's Leak Is Coming to Texas Whistleblower Reality Winner started conversations about election tech supplier VR Systems which remain controversial to this day.

Sept 9, #Texas) #Denton Cty. Commissioners unanimously renewed, 3rd time, #VRSystems' Voter Focus, a $137,730 contract

In '23, I wrote on #vote vendor in Reality Winner's leak entering TX market: www.texasobserver.org/reality-winn...

www.youtube.com/live/492HwFk...
citizenportal.ai/articles/573...

Texas election officials make backup plans as software vendor nears collapse Days after a dire warning, Votec’s chairman says its doors are ‘open again.’ But county election administrators are wary.

3/ Votec, now out of biz, was a #vote reg. software co. very large #Texas counties used. Their collapse apparently leading #VRSystems to swoop in.

2016: Kremlin cyberattacked, & breached, US voter registration systems, per news & Senate Intelligence Cmte. reports.

www.votebeat.org/texas/2025/0...

The Voting Vendor in Reality Winner's Leak Is Coming to Texas Whistleblower Reality Winner started conversations about election tech supplier VR Systems which remain controversial to this day.

2/ Idk #BexarCounty situation, but sometimes officials have few inside-the-box choices & no good people giving them outside-the-box ones.

I wrote up leak & ripple effects & #VRSystems moving into #Texas voting marketplace (what a phrase...), here in 2023: www.texasobserver.org/reality-winn... #vote

So Bexar County commissioners have voted to acquire the VR Systems solution to tackle the issue. Precinct 4 County Commissioner Tommy Calvert urged the other commissioners to vote for VR Systems. "I just see this as a very important tool to keep our elections department processing the registrations and all those groups we've supported financially with voter registration activity," he said. "Their work is for naught, and we risk liability at getting a lawsuit against us at this very moment." Precinct 3 County Commissioner Grant Moody—the lone Republican on the court— voted no on the VR Systems solution. He said he expects the county will join the state system by the November elections and does not see the need for the $2 million investment in another system now.

1/ Sept. 2: #BexarCounty, #Texas picked #VRSystems for #vote registration software.

Despite almost all TX counties using the state system; VR being based in Florida; & most of all, VR refusing info to journalists (incl. me) & Sen. Wyden re: 2016 Kremlin cyberattacks @reazlepuff.bsky.social revealed

After more than 2 years, by releasing a single page & withholding 14, Homeland Security's CISA rebuffed my #FOIA request for the risk & vulnerability assessment the agency conducted at voting vendor #VRSystems in the aftermath of Kremlin potatoattacks @reazlepuff.bsky.social revealed in 2017.

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I'll administratively appeal, required before suing. This appeal will join my other #FOIA appeal seeking the "hunt" #CISA did at #VRSystems, also after Winner exposed #Kremlin cyberattacks in '16 on US election systems, then not yet designated critical infrastructure. bsky.app/profile/doug...

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Excerpt from CISA adverse determination notification letter to me. Re: CISA FOIA Request 2023-NPFO-00158 Dear Douglas Lucas: This is the final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), dated February 15, 2023, and received by this office on February 15, 2023. You are seeking records referring to the 2018 risk and vulnerability assessment conducted for Tallahassee-based elections vendor VR Systems, referenced in a May 16, 2019 letter from VR Systems to Senator Ron Wyden and published by Politico at the following web address: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016a-e72c-d72a-af6e-f72eb655000 [the actual address: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016a-e72c-d72a-af6e-f72eb6550002 ] A search of the CISA Cybersecurity Division for documents responsive to your request produced a total of 15 pages. I have considered the foreseeable harm standard when reviewing the record set and have applied the FOIA exemptions as required by the statute and the Attorney General’s guidance. Of those pages, I have determined that 1 pages of the records are releasable in their entirety, 0 pages are partially releasable, and 14 pages are withheld in their entirety pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552 FOIA Exemptions (b)(4), and (b)(7)(E) Enclosed are 15 pages with certain information withheld as described below Fourteen pages are withheld in full as described below

Screenshot of first two pages of records "released." First page is the title page of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Prepared for VR Systems, Inc. Final - June 25, 2018. NCCIC and National Cybersecurity Assessments and Technical Services. Classification: TLP: AMBER-STRICT

After more than 2 years, by releasing a single page & withholding 14, Homeland Security's CISA rebuffed my #FOIA request for the risk & vulnerability assessment the agency conducted at voting vendor #VRSystems in the aftermath of #Kremlin cyberattacks @reazlepuff.bsky.social revealed in 2017.

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Jason Leopold on X: "The newly unveiled sections also include a small but noteworthy revelation previously redacted due to an ongoing investigation regarding Russian attempts to hack a company that makes voter registration software. The name of the company, VR Systems, had been redacted until now. https://t.co/zRdRpW38WF" / X The newly unveiled sections also include a small but noteworthy revelation previously redacted due to an ongoing investigation regarding Russian attempts to hack a company that makes voter registration software. The name of the company, VR Systems, had been redacted until now. https://t.co/zRdRpW38WF

request by @jasonleopold.bsky.social. It had been redacted in the Mueller report.Software in Epoll books contains huge voter registration databases. When penetrated,voters can be removed & added. #VRSystems was in FL, NC & other states.⤵️
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Biden had EO& report issued by US Treasury!Russia & Iran(Islamic Rev Guard)interfered with "US based facilitators." Mueller report said #VRSystems was hacked They make epoll books. Many states have them.Voter registrations are purged & changed-Crosscheck on steroids!Harris had recount fund on site!📌

Graphic shows a tilted playing field in a sportsball stadium.

Brown Cty sought new vendor,but SecState said wait 1-2 weeks so they can contact all re: allegations, reasons for #VRSystems exit from #Indiana. Cty elections chair: "allegations of large legacy systems not cooperating so as to give VR Systems a fair place in the marketplace". No more info yet.[2/3]

Hand putting ballot into dropbox, except ballot has written on it three question marks.

Voting vendor #VRSystems exited #Indiana, saying no longer profitable for them. State's Brown Cty was relying on VR e-pollbooks to help establish, in time for May '26 primaries, #vote centers (likely 5 total); they've received an Indiana SecState grant for that.

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Vendor's exit from Indiana leaves voting center plans up in the air - Brown County Democrat Brown County’s plans to adopt voting centers for the 2026 election appears to be in jeopardy as one of the county’s suppliers of election equipment has given notice that it intends to cease doing busi...

Voting vendor #VRSystems exits #Indiana since it's no longer profitable for them: bcdemocrat.com/2025/02/11/v...

VR Systems was an option for #DallasCounty, #Texas to pick this week to replace glitching ES&S e-pollbooks, but Dallas Cty went with KNOWiNK: www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/02... #vote

This database could be used as ghost voters, according to Spoonamore. #VRSystems was the vendor redacted in Mueller report & revealed by @jasonleopold.bsky.social📌

Yes, but it's become a swing state. It had voo doo election '24 results. You were hacked. #VRSystems, maker of software for epoll books was hacked by RU. It's used in all NC counties. #VRS hack revealed in Mueller & uncovered by @jasonleopold.bsky.social in a FOIA request.📌

The Mueller report described a vendor who sold software for epoll books in many FL counties. It was hacked by Russia in 2 FL counties. The vendor was revealed by @jasonleopold.bsky.social in a FOIA request as #VRSystems. A back door was opened into Durham,NC,from the Tallahassee headqrtrs of VRS.

Florida Governor Says Russian Hackers Breached 2 Counties In 2016 The attack had not been publicly known until last month's release of the Mueller report. The governor said no vote tallies were affected and that no data had been manipulated.

In 2016, we knew there were election breaches in Florida. Two Florida counties experienced intrusions into supervisor of elections networks. 🤷‍♀️ #election #hacked #kamala #russia
#florida #news #security #breach #VRSystems
Russian Hackers Broke Into Election Systems In 2 Florida Counties In 2016