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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 Monday November 23 2020, @07:08PM (2 children)
I don't live in Cali, dude. Florida cleaned house after 2000, we actually have the voting thing pretty well nailed now, IMO.
Having a single location [texastribune.org] for drop boxes in counties with populations in excess of 5 million people, that's limiting access.
Single polling places with long lines open for a single day is limiting access [americanprogress.org].
Demand your photo I.D. to register, verify the fuck out of it - it's not hard with the "gold star" documentation requirements for travel these days. And, then, shut the fuck up about how mail-ins are "a cheat, a steal, a lib-dem-flim-flam and we all know it" without providing any proof of the same.
What's even better than the poor us whining is the lame ass [lawandcrime.com] mockeries of proof [fastcompany.com] that are being submitted, apparently as the best available evidence of fraud in the elections. If this is what you all want to pass for legal proof going forward, let's see how businesses fare when consumers start piling bullshit lawsuits at their doorstep expecting equal treatment in the courts as politicians.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 24 2020, @02:47PM (1 child)
Drop boxes? There shouldn't be drop boxes to begin with. That's just asking for trouble. If for no other reason than you can drop things other than ballots in them. Like, say, half a gallon of black ink or a lit sparkler.
As for long lines, I guess the DMV limits access too then. Yet everyone who actually wants a driver's license or state ID seems to have no problem actually getting one. If you want more polling places, make more polling places. Our town has several when we could get by just fine with only one; they're never even slightly busy except when a family all comes up to vote at the same time. Your town is your business.
You don't need proof of misdeeds to say that misdeeds are not just possible but dead simple and completely unaccountable. By design. And that's what I've been saying. I don't give a rat's ass what Trump and co have been saying, because I don't give a rat's ass about Trump and co. I do give a rat's ass that my vote and yours don't get nullified by a dead, illegal, imaginary felon though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday November 24 2020, @03:19PM
So there should be no mail-in option whatsoever, because you believe the election workers are an excellent judge of false/true identity and you implicitly trust them to make that call? All the drop box does is cut out the postal service, which has shown itself to be less than 100% reliable in the recent election. Better security for the voters, also much easier to detect if somebody is trying to "stuff" 1000 ballots than if they show up in postal boxes all over town.
Have you ever even been to a polling place? Any polling place I have been to is attended, things going into the drop box are closely observed by poll workers, when there are no attendants, access to the drop box is not available.
Fuck yes it does, and having paid that price with three forms of validated I.D. to get the little gold star on the State issued photo I.D. card, that I.D. card should carry some weight.
We have wanted State IDs for our 17 & 19 year olds since they turned 16, and we don't have them yet. Life, one thing after another, COVID most recently, has conspired to take away our RoundTuits such that State IDs just haven't materialized for them yet. That's with unlimited opportunity for scheduling any day of the year. Even in Florida the voting window is only open for a few weeks per election.
That's not in the control of the people voting, that's in control of the minority elected politicians who are desperately clinging to power any way they can, including limiting access to the polls.
What system of law permits suing for theoretical damages, instead of actual damages? The one in your head?
Just like one side can't get more polling places by saying they need more polling places, the other side shouldn't be able to use imaginary problems to restrict real access.
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