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"The Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il was born inside of a log cabin beneath Korea’s most sacred mountain, where upon the moment he came into this world, a shooting star brought forth a spontaneous change from winter to summer, and for the icing on the birthday cake: a double rainbow."
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> Isn't the actual problem the abusive relationship and that pressure to vote a certain way a symptom? The solution isn't to ban no mail in ballots for those that want to vote that way, but to offer assistance to empower people to get out of that situation. If a voting system requires zero abusive power dynamics to work, it’s a bad system. Also, banning mail-in ballots isn’t the only solution. Early voting is an alte…
All of the above seems like the best solution
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/12/pennsyl... I don't understand how you can say the Election was the "most secure" when you literally have a Court in Pennsylvania throw out 10,000 ballots! If the system was so "secure" it shouldn't have even gone to the Courts in the first place and instead the electoral system should have found out the discrepancies on its own! The truth is that US electoral syste…
I would argue it would be more helpful if the rules were established in every state by a completely non-partisan entity and that they couldn't be changed arbitrarily.
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> It makes me wonder how a statement like this can be proved. >> There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised I suppose it might depend on how you read that statement. One person might read it as "There is no evidence (that exists/that will exist) that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised", in which cas…
I always read "we got pwn3d" disclosures this way. For example, it's common to read something like "we have found no evidence that the hacked data has been (ab)used ...". Cynical me just assumes they decided to leave out the rest of the sentence, "... because we didn't actually go looking for any such evidence", therefore they can ("honestly") "plead ignorance".
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New York Post Article, hope this satisfies. https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/michigan-gop-claims-software-i...
An error happening, being discovered and corrected through validation (that at least according to some reports is going to be always done before certification of the result: https://mobile.twitter.com/jhalderm/status/13251633006996480... ) seems like the overall system working just fine? Something to fix (why have the early machine result if it's so easily broken), but doesn't seem that different than someone fat-fin…
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I don't think you can avoid the politics of the situation because when it comes to presidential candidates, when the R candidate wins, much will be made of how broken the system is, from vulnerabilities in voting machines to fatal flaws in the Constitution itself (viz., the Electoral College). When the D candidate wins, we are assured that election security is airtight, there's no evidence of significant irregulariti…
Every person who downvoted you knows this too. They are being willfully ignorant because they are too smart not to notice at least in the slightest the difference in treatment.
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Every person who downvoted you knows this too. They are being willfully ignorant because they are too smart not to notice at least in the slightest the difference in treatment.
I don't think it's true. Democrats still don't like the electoral college even when they win. The real margin in this election would be over 5 million instead of the hundred of thousands if the EC didn't exist. And in this case the Republican claims of misnformation and conspiracy have seemed so outlandish and baseless it's hard to take any of them seriously. Like videos of ballots being burned, that turned out to be…
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The possible connection I see: who watches the watchers? What's the difference in trusting CISA vs PRISM? I have no ill intent, and I find all of this stuff distressing.
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A possible solution to the electronic/paper issue might be literally just receipts. You vote in a 'machine' and it prints a 2 receipts - one for the 'backup' and one that you keep with some kind of encrypted/encoded data for non-repudiation. You go online with your private receipt number and it can validate your vote. If the electronic count is not accepted, the physical 'receipts' are coded so they can be counted ve…
What precisely do you mean by "validate" here? Would this scheme make the ballot non-secret?
On what basis? Because there aren't any rumors of Russian meddling being sowed by the opposition this time? There are multiple states with no paper audit trail, closed source electronic voting machines, multiple dubious last-minute decisions made around postal ballots due to COVID, no easy way to verify the voter roll. Making a claim like this reeks of partisanship.