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Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

More likely something like hand-rolling timezone conversion code.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once you look past individual anecdotes, the actual rate of voter fraud with mail voting is tiny compared to the voting population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minuscule-number-of-...

>Once you look past individual anecdotes, the actual rate of voter fraud with mail voting is tiny compared to the voting population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minuscule-number-of- ... that's hardly reassuring given how close this election is going predicted to be. >The median scenario from our forecast has Ms Harris winning her pivotal 270th electoral-college vote by less than half a percentage point. h…

Half a percentage point is orders of magnitude bigger than a 0.0025% fraud rate.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

#113

Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

More likely something like hand-rolling timezone conversion code.

I think the timestamp column is straight up broken. I checked the first and last few pages and they all have the same timestamp.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

More likely something like hand-rolling timezone conversion code.

No, it's weirder than that. All the samples I pulled up had the same date and time without showing any time zone information: 2024-11-03 01:43:25

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

Is the site satire? There's basically no information of each "incident" aside from the state and a bunch of hashtags.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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post #115

Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

Is the site satire? There's basically no information of each "incident" aside from the state and a bunch of hashtags.

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Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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For lack of standing or lack of ability to relieve yes. Courts aren't going to question a presidential election. That doesn't mean we can't look at the videos of observers being banned, the facts of now-declared-illegal extra-legislative policy changes, the timings of various ballot drops etc. Opinions aren't formed on court cases. That's why in 2020, more than half of Democrats thought the election was irregular. It…

>For lack of standing or lack of ability to relieve yes. Courts aren't going to question a presidential election. ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore >That doesn't mean we can't look at the videos of observers being banned, the facts of now-declared-illegal extra-legislative policy changes, the timings of various ballot drops etc. My impression is that there were a bunch of "this seems sus" allegations, bu…

Yeah it’s just a polite retelling of the crazy Trump nonsense that was laughed out of court by every judge who looked at it and the rest is just misunderstandings from casual election observers who refuse to do one iota of research about how things work.

The accusations are always vague as well since each time you zoom in on one it’s completely anodyne but you need the distance to keep up the specter of something nefarious.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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That seems like a pretty uncharitable interpretation. Based on the entirety of the comment that doesn’t seem to be the intent.

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>If it's no big deal, just post the same comment with the word mosque or synagogue.

Why only "mosque or synagogue"? Are you singling out Abrahamic religions? What about shrines and temples? Words have meanings. If it's no big deal, just post the same comment with the word "places of worship" to be inclusive. :^)

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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Interestingly, a website set up to document voter fraud by Mike 'My Pillow' Lindell has collected hundreds of election law violations, many in Colorado. For some reason they are all dated for the future though. Might be a warning signal about not populating your database where the public can watch you doing it. https://archive.ph/smlSQ (capture of https://electionnexus.com from earlier today)

That would support Colorado having a robust system then and we shouldn't be concerned just like the SoS says. If their system was bad, they wouldn't be catching the voter fraud.

Re: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

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I think all US folks reading this should volunteer at their county's Registrar of Voters (or equivalent agency for their county). Spend one election working at a polling place, and another election working at the RoV HQ. See what it's like to go through the training, and what things are like on Election Day, and in the days leading up (for places that allow early voting, drop-off, etc.).
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