My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania • Hacker News Board

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by nemo44x » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 3:32 PM UTC

voxl wrote: post #334

nemo44x wrote: post #262

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Depressing how uncivilized and obnoxious people can be. We may want to reevaluate why we used to tech our children shame. It’s about mutual respect. Without that, we continue a downward spiral.

Because God forbid a women be topless... So disrespectful. We need to start shaming people who comment online again, remove all anonymity so we can publicly shame them for saying something stupid like a women voting topless should be shamed.

In this particular case it is. You can’t wear political clothing in a polling place. This law applies to everyone. To indignantly take your shirt off is disrespectful to the people there. It would be the same if it were a man taking his shirt off.

The fact you instantly made it into some sort of anti-feminist or sexist screed sounds paranoid. Are we really this suspicious of each other?

Do you honestly think “no shirt, no shoes, no service” makes for a worse society?

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by Shared404 » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 3:35 PM UTC

u801e wrote: post #340

ebg13 wrote: post #338

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> Which is why I mentioned using certificate based authentication (AKA, client-side TLS certificates). Not only does the client verify that they're connecting to the correct server via the server side TLS certificate, the server can verify the client though the client cert. "Software has no flaws" is not a strong position historically. I mean, the very fact that we're on TLS version 1.3 and not SSL 1.0 should be clue…

> I mean, the very fact that we're on TLS version 1.3 and not SSL 1.0 should be clue enough. But we still conduct a lot of business online without issue. If we followed the line of reasoning that you're suggesting, then we would still be doing things as they were done prior to 1995. The fact that we're not is testament that these systems largely work. Voting is not a special case that requires us to not make use of t…

> But we still conduct a lot of business online without issue.

Business has fallbacks though.

If your credit card is compromised, you can disable it, recover the funds, and get a new one.

There is no equivalent for voting, that I know of.

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by ebalit » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

Thervicarl wrote: post #344

ebalit wrote: post #323

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Same in my country. Elections are always on Sundays and the campaign stops from Friday night to the results reveal at 8 pm the day of the election. Spreading polls results or estimates is also forbidden during this period, even though in recent years it has been hard to enforce especially from foreign sources.

Not sure if that is what you are referring to but this is what happens in France with Swiss and Belgian websites being overloaded on French election days.

It was indeed what I was referring to.

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

juped wrote: post #281

throwaway377383 wrote: post #196

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You just publicly admitted to breaking Philadelphia election code. >Author here. The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. The USA is a political entity that different voters have different opinions on. The city, state, school district, utility district, sanitst district, etc. are all political entities that different voters have different opinions on. The specific guideline…

Would you rather they not admit to it?

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Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

juped wrote: post #281

throwaway377383 wrote: post #196

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You just publicly admitted to breaking Philadelphia election code. >Author here. The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. The USA is a political entity that different voters have different opinions on. The city, state, school district, utility district, sanitst district, etc. are all political entities that different voters have different opinions on. The specific guideline…

Would you rather they not admit to it?

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Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by hshdsjkans » Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

juped wrote: post #281

throwaway377383 wrote: post #196

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You just publicly admitted to breaking Philadelphia election code. >Author here. The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. The USA is a political entity that different voters have different opinions on. The city, state, school district, utility district, sanitst district, etc. are all political entities that different voters have different opinions on. The specific guideline…

Would you rather they not admit to it?

I never said otherwise. I'm simply pointing out the insane brazenness that this entire comment section has become.

Multiple election officials are here admitting to breaking election code because they're blinded by their bias and hatred of the right.

The gall of it all is... Disgusting.

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by throwa883737 » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 3:56 AM UTC

juped wrote: post #281

throwaway377383 wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just publicly admitted to breaking Philadelphia election code. >Author here. The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. The USA is a political entity that different voters have different opinions on. The city, state, school district, utility district, sanitst district, etc. are all political entities that different voters have different opinions on. The specific guideline…

Would you rather they not admit to it?

I'm simply pointing out the brazenness that this comment section has become.

Multiple election officials are here posting anecdotes of them breaking election code. I assume this is due to their biases and hatred of the right.

The gall of it all...

Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

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Post by m0zg » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 5:19 AM UTC

DeRock wrote: post #257

BrandonMarc wrote: post #248

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# 1 would fit, if there were a proportionate number of mail-in ballots for Jo Jorgensen and Kanye West. If you have 10,000 ballots, some of those will be expected. Tens of thousands of Biden-only? Repeatedly? Doesn't pass the sniff test.

What does “Biden only” votes mean to you? Is that where you see vote totals jump for Biden, but not for any other candidate? Because your conclusion from that, that it’s obviously fraud, seems incredibly naive. The simple answer is they update candidate totals in chunks. Further, if someone was committing fraud, they could just add a few votes for other candidates to evade your detection. Your sniff test doesn’t pass…

Biden-only means the ballot is marked _only_ for Biden, and not for any of the congress or local legislature candidates. That's unlikely as fuck, especially when such ballots come as a large batch or a series of large batches. That's what you do if you bought into the "Joe is ahead by 15%" polls and didn't have the time to make your scam believable at 4AM on November 4th.