The cure is open platforms, visible and exposed, so we can watch it, but not hack it, both during and after the process.
They can program video games to protect them from theft, but not vote machines?
This is simply a matter of political will, not technology lagging.
The top expert in the technology who teaches at the University of Michigan says no fix is currently possible.
easy peezyâŚjust ask them in front of their peer group if they trust Putin or Pelosi moreâŚ
things change; electoral black boxes should disappear completely.
Gotta wonder, though, if thereâs some conservative element in power in the Florida USPS, they could selectively hold up ballots from notoriously blue areas quite easily.
When they call you paranoid, they are probably out to get you.
Republicans realize they are losing voters and have to lie cheat and steal in order to keep âwinningâ elections.
and in florida you can also suppress mail-in votes by more agressively challenging signature matches based on ethnicity of voter name and neighborhood.
I know. I live in the Panhandle. I was working in Bay County on the election up until Michael hit.
The affected counties were given a great deal of leeway to compensate for the hurricane. But, being that most of the Panhandle is red, the SOEs, like the one in Bay, abused it and even though the EO from Rick Scott explicitly said they could not accept email or fax votesâŚthey did anyway and bragged about it afterwards.
But Michael hit over a month before the election. There was still plenty of time to get mail in ballots to the SOE. And, among the steps taken, numerous extended hours and days early vote, âmega sitesâ were setup. And, despite the disaster that is still going on, Bay County posted pretty respectable voting numbers.
(Bay County is Panama City and Panama City Beach, btw. And Mexico Beach where Michael made landfall).
for a pair of right-wing lunatics.
So, if I drive a truck full of absentee ballots, I can tamper with the election by taking a one-week detour?
Why not just have a law that explicitly permits the election to be canceled if anybody calls the toll-free number?
Actually, the 2018 election was largely decided by lower than state average turnout in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade. Hillsborough, Pinellas and Orange counties did their job (which, I admit, is not always the case).
That didnât happen. The "other"candidates on the ballot were not enough to carry Andrew over the finish line.
And that is absolutely not true. Graham wold have lost by even more, I have no doubtâŚand would have hurt Democrats all down the ballot. She was lazy during the primary, and was attempting to run as a republican lite. She spent close to 2 years fund raising, spent almost nothing on her primary campaign, and gave almost nothing to the eventual winner, Andrew Gillium.
We arenât going to win Florida by trying to woo crazy republican voters. The âmoderatesâ will vote for us when we have a clearly better candidate; our left wing will stay at home if we cater to the middle. Graham was catering to the right wing, not even the middle.
Not by running candidates like Graham. Gillum was clearly a bigger motivator to the left leaning 3rd party voters (Though I personally think Levine was the person who had the best chance to win the General).
But keep in mind, the past 5 governor campaigns, and the past 3 presidential campaigns in Florida have all been won by roughly 1% or less.