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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 20 2020, @01:51AM (6 children)
And how many fraudsters have they found who are willing to do this and risk getting caught? Not saying they'd catch them all, but there will be some who get nailed - what's that number?
Back in the '80s the Florida voters registration card I was issued was made on a standard manual typewriter, ink ribbon on thickish paper preprinted with a two color background. I erased my birth year and drew it back in with a mechanical pencil - got me in a fair number of bars back in the day - had to forge it back to the truth to use as a 2nd source of I.D. for a trip to the Bahamas. I'd still feel about 4x as comfortable forging that kind of card (only card you needed to vote at the time) than I would doing anything through the mail, and none of it is worth the risk. You might get away with one or two, but what difference is that really going to make? Run an operation of thousands? they're gonna find you, and again it's still not enough to really make a difference in most elections.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:28AM (5 children)
What risk? There is pretty much zero risk. The Dems in CA wrote the law how it is precisely to make double damned sure of that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:35PM (4 children)
And, yet, nobody fucks with my mail - there's financial information and checks and all kinds of other things in there they could use to steal my identity and wreak all kinds of havoc in my life for potential gain in theirs, virtually zero risk snatching mail out of a roadside box, and how often does that happen outside of fictional movies? It happens, sure, but it's 1/100,000+ rare.
Both sides need to back the fuck down, starting with gerrymandering - Pubs have lost the house for so many years running they might as well just give up and let the districting make some sense again. But concede isn't in the vocabulary, is it?
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @02:34PM (3 children)
I'm not talking about snatching mail. I'm talking about registering fraudulent voters at PO boxes, checking those PO boxes exactly once to get the ballots, and disappearing without a trace until the next election. It's dirt simple to do for CA, for example.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 22 2020, @04:52PM (2 children)
Are you in CA? For the good of the nation, faith in our election system, etc. I suggest you do what I outlined above: find a politically/elections oriented lawyer, engage with him and several judges to "test the system" and do just what you proposed - attempt to register 100 fraudulent voters at PO boxes and get the ballots for the 2022 congressional elections. Don't mail them in to vote them, just obtain the ballots and have the lawyer document the process and show how you have done it. See if you can avoid getting caught until January 4 2023 when the congresscritters who would have been affected by your fraudulent ballots are seated in office. Maybe an even better test of the system would be to vote for the darkest horse on the ticket, just to show you can really get away with it.
Seems to me that if it were do-able, even just in CA, with a population of 40 million there should be more than one "investigative journalist" who would have blown the lid off this thing with solid evidence BEFORE steal-gate hit Trump in the face.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 23 2020, @12:22PM (1 child)
What's an investigative journalist?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 23 2020, @06:58PM
A dying breed of people who go find out actual shit, document it to a reasonable level of proof, and publish it for fame and prizes. Much easier to listen to your audience, echo back what they want to hear and collect advertising revenue: capitalism triumphing again.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end