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Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges

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This person is actually a repeat offender with a history of abusing his office. https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-convicted-abscam-p...

This link not only has a paywall but also has terrible dark pattern with popup etc and hijacking the back button. Just FYI.

Ah, I trimmed the url a bit, there was no paywall on original link. Will try to find again.

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Best option is paper ballots that are machine-readable and human-readable. Cryptography doesn't help; what you need are processes which make fraud difficult (for instance, observers with line of site to all ballot boxes from when voting starts until they're counted; cross-checking counts of blank, spoiled, and voted ballot papers before & after voting, translucent ballot boxes that are clearly empty at the start of e…

I'm not sure it even matters how difficult fraud is. Conspiracy theorists will see what they want to see, especially when primed by their candidate to assume fraud in the case of a loss.

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Amusing that the ward leader for the GOP in the very same ward was just kicked out of his own party last month over suspicions he was committing election fraud: https://www.newskudo.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/governmen...

Quite a rotten two square miles of Philadelphia there.

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post #27

This person is actually a repeat offender with a history of abusing his office. https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-convicted-abscam-p...

This link not only has a paywall but also has terrible dark pattern with popup etc and hijacking the back button. Just FYI.

Wikipedia page[1] has good info too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Pennsylvania_po...

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Everything is cheaper when you get it at just the right point of the supply chain.

Mark Zuckerberg spend $400MM to get influence over state election offices in key swing states. Makes you wonder.

Proof for this claim?

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This was done by adding votes. The voter counts of poll watchers should not have matched those of the election officials. Why wasn't that noticed?

I would assume that, in a large city, those counts are routinely wrong and mismatches are ignored. If I try to count even a few dozen items twice in a row, I’d be lucky to get the same count twice. I can’t imagine poll counts are better.

As an election judge, I'm not sure how different Baltimore is from Philly, but we are not permitted to physically leave the polls if the count (voters_entered - votes_cast = 0) is off by one at the end of the day. There is not slop in the daily counts. A chief election judge could just close out the tallies and lie up the chain, but if there was an audit, they would get caught. (ps - they got caught)

The other scheme was advising voters inside the polling place (illegal) and signing in non-present voters and casting votes on their behalf (also illegal), so the counts would all look legit. They got caught for that too, it sounds like.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason progressives are against voter ID laws. I've said that before and will say it again: Most of EU requires ID to vote. I will support Republicans that want to do this. It is sad to bring EU in the picture to convince progressives but it is a magic word that somehow brings logic and reason. We shouldn't have to say "They do it in EU, so it must be good". People have stopped thinking for themselves. Anyth…

> For some reason progressives are against voter ID laws. It’s a barrier preventing citizens from exercising constitutional rights. The need isn’t clearly demonstrated to justify the restriction. Voter ID laws have different outcomes based on economic status. It’s especially difficult for poor people to exercise their rights. > People have stopped thinking for themselves. Or maybe someone else thought of something yo…

> It’s a barrier for poor people to exercise their rights.

This is delusional. ID is required for so many daily activities and the price of an ID (if they charge for it) is less than $10.

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This is definitely going to be used as proof that Trump won in a landslide in 2020 and all of the poll watchers nationwide are in the (((Democrats))) pockets. > some straightforward cryptographic scheme Anybody who designs cryptographic systems is LOLing right now.

I'm not talking about inventing a new method for encryption. I'm talking about something along the lines of:

* Every registered voter gets an encryption key

* When you vote, your vote is encrypted with the key

* A list of everyone who voted, along with their encrypted vote, is semi-publicly available (like current voter registration lists [1])

* Anyone can check who they're registered as having voted for (but the encryption keeps it private)

* Anyone who wants to verify the election results can request the voter registration list, and ask some randomly sampled subset to verify their vote

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...

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