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2020-11-07 at 5:37 PM UTCNow 50 ballot watchers from various key states are coming forward to testify they were denied access by the Democrats to observe and contest ballot counts. Not looking good for the Democrats.
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2020-11-07 at 5:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by street_carp Your avatar makes that seem so sinister. Leave the little birds alone you feline bastard.
My avatar kitty loves birds too he plays with them in the bird bath and helps lick their wet little wings and feathers while they go cheep cheep cheep and splash and play together -
2020-11-07 at 5:40 PM UTC
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2020-11-07 at 5:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by frala It doesn’t have a bird bath but I bought a litte birdhouse! No birds have taken to it yet though :(
Give it time and the wrens will come aplenty. Please please pretty please get a little birdy bath to put near the birdhouse so they can all play and get clean and eat and be happy together thank you -
2020-11-07 at 5:47 PM UTC"News networks don't decide elections. Courts do." ~ Rudy Giuliani
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2020-11-07 at 5:47 PM UTCI might do it because I have the perfect spot and I think that would be a cute addition next to the birdhouse.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-11-07 at 6:30 PM UTC
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2020-11-07 at 6:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT I believe no matter how stupid you think or speak its not really my job to judge you or try to get others to think poorly of you over my opinion of you but cancel culture is doing just that and to extremes.
Nigger conservatives were boycotting Budweiser because they ran a super bowl commercial depicting immigrants.
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2020-11-07 at 7:06 PM UTCI don't watch ball games,, it seemed kinda gay,, oh wait,, huh Oh
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2020-11-07 at 7:07 PM UTCAOC has threatened 70 million people by saying we need to make lists of trump supporters to know who was who for later on when they try again
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2020-11-07 at 7:14 PM UTC- huge Biden ballot dump at 3am on night of election
- 50 Republican poll watchers denied access to vote counts (legal onus is on state legislation to enforce Republican observer access to witness all vote counts)
- ballot counting machines in several states discovered to have software that flips votes to Biden
- social media manipulated platforms to favor Biden
- news and polling organizations purposely pushed fake polling
- submitting votes after election day is illegal
- thousands of dead people voting Democrat
- MORE TO COMEThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-11-07 at 7:17 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL - huge Biden ballot dump at 3am on night of election
- 50 Republican poll watchers denied access to vote counts (legal onus is on state legislation to enforce Republican observer access to witness all vote counts)
- ballot counting machines in several states discovered to have software that flips votes to Biden
- social media manipulated platforms to favor Biden
- news and polling organizations purposely pushed fake polling
- counting votes after election day is illegal
- thousands of dead people voting Democrat
- MORE TO COME
Sauce for any of this? Especially the rigged voting machines, that would be an interesting read. -
2020-11-07 at 7:18 PM UTCPole,
You know it’s getting bad when you’re thanking spectral posts. -
2020-11-07 at 7:23 PM UTC
one of my good friends from back in indiana,, he wasnt right but he wasnt wrong neither,, I loved that crazy bastard he sold me my dodge one ton before he passed,, he hated the politics of our town and always showed up to meetings to call em all out -
2020-11-07 at 7:23 PM UTCSouth Carolina lawmakers decided in June to buy a model called ExpressVote from the country’s largest election technology company, Election Systems & Software. Counties in at least seven states — Florida, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas — have also replaced their paperless machines with the ExpressVote since 2018, according to a POLITICO survey. Delaware bought another model from ES&S, called the ExpressVote XL, and Georgia has purchased similar machines from another manufacturer.
The ExpressVote is a so-called ballot-marking device, and its most prominent feature is a large touchscreen for voters to make selections. But unlike older electronic machines, this one produces a paper record at the end of the process showing which candidates the voter selected.
That slip of paper, which serves as the official ballot, also embeds those votes in a barcode that the state’s tabulators will scan to tally the results on Saturday.
The problem, according to the security experts: The voting machines are still vulnerable to tampering that could cause them to print barcodes that don’t match the voter’s choices — for example, changing “Sanders” to “Biden” or vice versa. Voters, who can’t read barcodes, would be unable to tell that such a change had occurred.
In a close election, a recount could uncover any tampering by verifying the official results against the text on the ballots. But a hacked machine could also change that text as well — and research shows that most voters do not doublecheck printouts from electronic voting machines. One University of Michigan study published in January found that participants missed more than 93 percent of errors on their printed ballots, although verification improved when poll workers prompted the voters to check the ballots’ accuracy.
“Until [ballot-marking devices] are shown to be effectively verifiable during real-world use,” the researchers wrote, “the safest course for security is to prefer hand-marked paper ballots.”
“Everyone should be concerned about voters not verifying their BMD printouts,” said Eddie Perez, the global director of technology development at the OSET Institute, which advocates for open-source election systems.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/south-carolina-voting-machines-118046 -
2020-11-07 at 7:25 PM UTCKansas, Delaware, and New Jersey are in the process of purchasing voting machines with a serious design flaw, and they should reconsider while there is still time!
Over the past 15 years, almost all the states have moved away from paperless touchscreen voting systems (DREs) to optical-scan paper ballots. They’ve done so because if a paperless touchscreen is hacked to give fraudulent results, there’s no way to know and no way to correct; but if an optical scanner were hacked to give fraudulent results, the fraud could be detected by a random audit of the paper ballots that the voters actually marked, and corrected by a recount of those paper ballots.
Optical-scan ballots marked by the voters are the most straightforward way to make sure that the computers are not manipulating the vote. Second-best, in my opinion, is the use of a ballot-marking device (BMD), where the voter uses a touchscreen to choose candidates, then the touchscreen prints out an optical-scan ballot that the voter can then deposit in a ballot box or into an optical scanner. Why is this second-best? Because (1) most voters are not very good at inspecting their computer-marked ballot carefully, so hacked BMDs could change some choices and the voter might not notice, or might notice and think it’s the voter’s own error; and (2) the dispute-resolution mechanism is unclear; pollworkers can’t tell if it’s the machine’s fault or your fault; at best you raise your hand and get a new ballot, try again, and this time the machine “knows” not to cheat.
Third best is “DRE with paper trail”, where the paper ballot prints out behind glass; the voter can inspect it, but it can be difficult and discouraging to read a long ballot behind glass, and there’s pressure just to press the “accept” button and get on with it. With hand-marked optical-scan ballots there’s much less pressure to hurry: you’re not holding up the line at the voting machine, you’re sitting at one of the many cheap cardboard privacy screens with a pen and a piece of paper, and you don’t approach the optical scanner until you’re satisfied with your ballot. That’s why states (such as North Carolina) that had previously permitted “DRE with paper trail” moved last year to all optical-scan.
Now there’s an even worse option than “DRE with paper trail;” I call it “press this button if it’s OK for the machine to cheat” option. The country’s biggest vendor of voting machines, ES&S, has a line of voting machines called ExpressVote. Some of these are optical scanners (which are fine), and others are “combination” machines, basically a ballot-marking device and an optical scanner all rolled into one.
This video shows a demonstration of ExpressVote all-in-one touchscreens purchased by Johnson County, Kansas. The voter brings a blank ballot to the machine, inserts it into a slot, chooses candidates. Then the machine prints those choices onto the blank ballot and spits it out for the voter to inspect. If the voter is satisfied, she inserts it back into the slot, where it is counted (and dropped into a sealed ballot box for possible recount or audit).
So far this seems OK, except that the process is a bit cumbersome and not completely intuitive (watch the video for yourself). It still suffers from the problems I describe above: voter may not carefully review all the choices, especially in down-ballot races; counties need to buy a lot more voting machines, because voters occupy the machine for a long time (in contrast to op-scan ballots, where they occupy a cheap cardboard privacy screen).
But here’s the amazingly bad feature: “The version that we have has an option for both ways,” [Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie] Metsker said. “We instruct the voters to print their ballots so that they can review their paper ballots, but they’re not required to do so. If they want to press the button ‘cast ballot,’ it will cast the ballot, but if they do so they are doing so with full knowledge that they will not see their ballot card, it will instead be cast, scanned, tabulated and dropped in the secure ballot container at the backside of the machine.” [TYT Investigates, article by Jennifer Cohn, September 6, 2018]
Now it’s easy for a hacked machine to cheat undetectably! All the fraudulent vote-counting program has to do is wait until the voter chooses between “cast ballot without inspecting” and “inspect ballot before casting”. If the latter, then don’t cheat on this ballot. If the former, then change votes how it likes, and print those fraudulent votes on the paper ballot, knowing that the voter has already given up the right to look at it.
Johnson County should not have bought these machines; if they’re going to use them, they must insist that ES&S disable this “permission to cheat” feature.
Union County New Jersey and the entire state of Delaware are (to the best of my knowledge) in the process of purchasing ExpressVote XL machines, which are like the touchscreens shown in the video but with a much larger screen that can show the whole ballot at once. New Jersey and Delaware should not buy these machines. If they insist on buying them, they must disable the “permission to cheat” feature.
Of course, if the permission-to-cheat feature is disabled, that reverts to the cumbersome process shown in the video: (1) receive your bar-code card and blank ballot from the election worker; (2) insert the blank ballot card into the machine; (3) insert the bar-code card into the machine; (4) make choices on the screen; (5) press the “done” button; (6) wait for the paper ballot to be ejected; (7) compare the choices listed on the ballot with the ones you made on the screen; (8) put the ballot back into the machine.
Wouldn’t it be better to use conventional optical-scan balloting, as most states do? (1) receive your optical-scan ballot from the election worker; (2) fill in the ovals with a pen, behind a privacy screen; (3) bring your ballot to the optical scanner; (4) feed your ballot into the optical scanner.
I thank Professor Philip Stark (interviewed in the TYT article cited above) for bringing this to my attention.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/14/serious-design-flaw-in-ess-expressvote-touchscreen-permission-to-cheat/ -
2020-11-07 at 7:37 PM UTCTrump was evil. Even if the allegations of voter fraud were true (a big if), the fraud was a good thing. Glad that fascist fuck is out of office.
