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The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".
CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:49PM (15 children)
Yes. Look up the process for registering by mail and voting by mail in California if you want definitive proof of insecurity. Mostly I'm concerned by the fact that we completely stopped all scrutiny and criticism of voting machines by the tech community overnight.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:49PM (3 children)
If you know of a specific issue, state it; then people will investigate and prove it wrong (because it is wrong). Just throwing out nebulous baseless claims isn't fooling anybody.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:27PM
But you've set a catch-22. Without an investigation, there could be mistakes or fraud, but nobody will know. Is that an okay system?
I'd advocate for everyone using paper ballots, and counting 3 times, or as many as necessary to achieve reasonable convergence. "Reasonable" meaning: if the margin or error is greater than the difference between the totals, you need to count again.
This ain't rocket science. Or maybe it is and should be done by rocket scientists.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:58PM
Here's a *specific* case of *attempted* election fraud. [latimes.com]
Even if the scheme had succeeded (which it didn't, because appropriate controls were in place to detect such efforts), it was nowhere near enough to change the outcome of just a *city* election, let alone a state-wide election.
Election fraud in the US is hard to do in a way that could actually affect the outcome of an election -- even a local election.
If you take even a cursory look into how elections in the US work, that becomes obvious.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 20 2020, @01:17AM
I just did. Read the procedures for registering and voting by mail in CA and tell me they're not absolutely designed to protect voter fraud.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:17PM (8 children)
California has paper trails.
The state you live in does not.
California wins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:31PM (4 children)
Maybe he is extrapolating the insecurity of voting in his own state to how the rest of the country's voting works.
Also, non white skinned people actually do get to have a fair say in the government. Just like everyone else. Yes, really. And it is not unfair for it to be that way. I know some people will be horribly offended about this. But there it is.
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 1, Troll) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:41PM (3 children)
The rightwing filter would never allow a story about how all the Blue states fixed their voting systems while all the Red states left them insecure into his bubble.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday November 19 2020, @08:03PM (2 children)
That looks to me like the republicans have loyalty tests, ever since the tea party idiots introduced the term "RINO" to describe anyone who didn't fit their particular narrative.
If the rest of the republican party had had any real ethics, they would have rejected the Sarah Palin types, or at least debated with them, instead of rolling over and allowing them free reign.
Now they're in the situation that they have to argue black is white, because they have allowed their partry to be taken over by Trump and he has no regard for reality.
The Mighty Buzzard might ask himself why, if this voter fraud thing is so real, can the Trump campaign cannot find a reputable law firm to argue their case in court?
Instead they have fools like this working for them, and even worse, Rudy Giuliani. [politico.com]
I don't think TMB is stupid, but I do think he has wound up invested in "his team" and won't be disloyal by questioning any of their narrative.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 19 2020, @10:08PM (1 child)
The most disturbing thing is the "Black is White, might makes right" actions they are taking while in control of things like Supreme Court nominations.
I know the Ds pulled out the nuclear option first, but the Rs are going beyond retribution.
What kind of mechanism is required to de-Gerrymander districts? The R hold on power is so tenuous at this point, if they lost that one advantage it seems that they would fall down a deep hole they might never climb out of.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @05:54PM
Gerrymandering can be prevented by having districts set by a committee of citizens, like Michigan is now doing (a form of direct democracy). Apportionment reform could make gerrymandering less relevant by greatly increasing the number of districts and diluting the power of partisan voting blocs.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 20 2020, @01:18AM (2 children)
Dude, I could have voted in CA this time around. As many times as I wanted to take out post office boxes for. I could even shave that down some if I used folks with the same last names.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @05:05AM (1 child)
I was wrong, you are the Rudy Giulani of SN.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:07AM
You're wrong on the issue as well. You should look into fixing that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:48PM (1 child)
Just blind uninformed hatred towards "commiefornia." Here I thought you were a libertarian above all that partisan hackery /s
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:10AM
I give you facts you were unaware of, you hate and deny said facts without being able to refute them in any way, and you think I'm the ignorant one?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.