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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: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:21PM (3 children)
What you describe is like where I vote. (flyover) Fill out paper ballot. Drop ballot into machine. You (and poll watchers) can visibly see that your ballot was counted and that the total ballots counted display increments by one, as the ballot drops into a box that collects the ballots.
Counting by machine makes vote counts rapid and efficient. Also can make recounts rapid and efficient.
Use of paper, human readable ballots makes manual recounts possible.
Ideally, one type of paper ballot could be counted by optical counting machines from multiple vendors. Then some easy reality checks become possible:
* Grab subset of ballots, and count them on two different brands, expecting same totals.
* Before counting them on the 2nd machine, first shuffle the deck, expect same totals.
* Swap counting machines with other precincts, expect same totals.
* Run stack of ballots through machine 1, shuffle and cut the deck, run the two halves through machines 2 and 3. Expect totals of 1 to match sum of totals of 2 and 3.
Other possible quick checks could be done on machines.
There is no excuse for voting machines that do not count human readable paper ballots that were manually filled in by the voter. The ballot is what is sacred. The machine is there simply to make counting more efficient.
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:27PM (2 children)
Same as CO, it's a great system that has the benefits of both worlds.
It's a shame that folk like Buzzard in TN won't elect anyone who wants to fix their paperless voting system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:33PM
TN? That is how Rand Paul stays in office?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 20 2020, @12:22AM
Careful guys, Trump may fire you too. That's not what he wants to hear, reality be damn'd. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0