15% of Americans believe in QAnon. As you walk down the street, one out of every six people you pass is a QAnon believer. If the numbers are correct, these people are our neighbors, our work colleagues, our kid’s baseball coach, the postal carrier, etc.
I did that too. So did my wife when she was a kid (one reason I married her, a fellow nerd). At least you could sorta understand what you were looking at back then. Good luck now. You end up staring at a black IC chip that does it all, somehow. That won’t stop Ms. QAnon here from figuring out that the chip is receiving Jewish radio waves from Italy to alter the votes.
Where, or from whom, does this madness originate? This level of conspiracy thinking reminds me of some childhood treasure-hunt game. In this case, I suppose the ‘treasure’ was the control unit tablet/tabulator. There is no way someone who is playing such a game should be anywhere near voting machines.
after Scott refused run accuracy tests on or allow a vendor to conduct mandatory maintenance of the voting machine.
…and this is why everyone with the brains of an average chipmunk says to use paper ballots that are retained for months after the election and are spot checked and cross checked by both parties post election.
Same here. I used to know how to clean a carburetor, take it apart and put it back together. I even had a timing light! All ancient history now unless you’re a vintage car nut.