Reality: The existence of a vulnerability in election technology is not evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited or that the results of an election have been impacted. Technology has vulnerabilities. Identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities is an important security practice.<p><pre><code> Rumor: Vulnerabilities in election technology mean that elections have been hacked and hackers are able to change election results.
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I'm sorry this is comical.
Sure... let's trust bureaucracy that consistently outsources election security to third parties who then claim that the process is proprietary. Might as well outsource the Federal Reserve and SEC to Chase and Wells Fargo while we're at it and believe everything they do is fair and balanced.
> Mail-in/absentee ballot request forms typically require applicants to sign the form and affirm their eligibility to cast a mail-in/absentee ballot under penalty of law. Upon receipt of a mail-in/absentee ballot request form, election officials implement varying procedures to verify the identity and eligibility of the applicant prior to sending the applicant a mail-in/absentee ballot. Such procedures include checking the signature and information submitted on the form against the corresponding voter registration record, as well as ensuring that multiple mail-in/absentee ballots are not sent in response to applications using the same voter’s information.<p>Let’s see. In 2020, many duplicates were sent. Ballots were sent for dead people. So the rumour is not only true, it has already been happening across the country as recently as last election.<p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/duplicates-and-dead-people-hundreds-of-thousands-of-questionable-ballots-sent-out-to-la-county-voters/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/duplicates-and-dead-...</a>
Can we stop it with this bullshit.<p>There's no such thing as election integrity in america and there never has been. Everything they say about the previous election is probably true. Everyone involved in elections in the united states is biased, and just like everything in politics, people will resort to dirty tricks, do whatever they have to do and are in it for themselves. It is nothing new.<p>Everyone arguing for mail in and absentee ballots is doing it because they want to use them to cheat. Everyone arguing for or against anything wants the rules to favor them in some underhanded way, every single rule in very single system was decided to enable some official's preferred method of cheating.<p>Multiple presidents have stolen elections. Every house seat is gerrymandered to protect the incumbent. Election officials in the south used to throw black votes away. Politicians in the north used to pay poor people to travel around a city or state and vote multiple times 50, 100, 150 years ago. It has always been this way in America.
> Not a word about Voter ID<p>Every serious, even-remotely-democratic country on the planet requires voter ID, yet one US party is staunchly against it. Until the US changes this, then its electoral process should be seen with extreme skepticism and electoral fraud should probably be considered the default.
These are all of the following form:<p>> Rumor: Bad things can happen.<p>> Reality: Bad things cannot happen.<p>> Facts: We made bad things illegal. Therefore they can't happen.<p>Somehow this fails to be reassuring. A slightly more sophisticated take is that the "bad things" which fill in this template are precisely those things which legislatures thought up as the most likely threats to election integrity. That makes the "we made it illegal" approach that much less sufficient. The only thing on the whole page which is remotely a mitigation is the description of outdoor drop boxes being reinforced against tampering, which is... small potatoes.
I saw the film "2000 Mules."<p>Amongst the claims of this film was an assertion of open drop boxes on public streets with no cameras for surveillance. Several FOIA requests for camera footage also failed, as the cameras "malfunctioned."<p>While there may be innocent explanations for the odd cell phone location tracking, this fact remains:<p>"The most secure election in history" cannot be as claimed with unmonitored and publicly-accessible drop boxes.<p>This cannot continue if an honest election is the goal.<p>p.s. I regularly split my voting ticket, so I am not as biased as some might suppose.
It mentions system testing; i read here that testing could only be done according to criteria provided by the vendor.<p><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/596142725/Fulton-Pa-Sues-Dominion#download&from_embed" rel="nofollow">https://www.scribd.com/document/596142725/Fulton-Pa-Sues-Dom...</a>