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When all the votes are counted this year, Americans should have far more confidence their votes were tallied correctly than in 2016.

After that contest was upended by Russian interference, states vastly increased the number of votes that are cast with paper records that can be audited later. More than 90 percent of votes will have a paper record this year compared with about 80 percent in 2016.

States have also significantly improved how often and how scrupulously they perform post-election audits.

The changes have been especially significant in some of the states ... contested by Trump.

Georgia and Pennsylvania have both shifted from having paper records for few or none of their voters in 2016 to having paper records for all votes cast in their states — a protection security experts say is a bare minimum to ensure votes weren’t altered by hackers or miscounted because of a technology failure.

The Cybersecurity 202: More states now have paper trails to verify votes were correctly counted

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @08:50PM (23 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @08:50PM (#1099075)

    Georgia and Pennsylvania have both shifted from having paper records for few or none of their voters in 2016 to having paper records for all votes cast in their states

    Then they should have had no problem doing a properly observed signature audit for mail in ballots.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @09:01PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @09:01PM (#1099080)

    They did not have any problems, but thank you for your concern!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:55PM (9 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:55PM (#1099138)

      Evidently they didn't have any problems stealing the election but even with the collusion of the courts, it remains unlawful.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:58PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:58PM (#1099139)

        What makes you think it was stolen?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:27PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:27PM (#1099160)

          Joe Biden told us. [thefederalist.com]

          • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:36AM (4 children)

            by deimtee (3272) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:36AM (#1099244) Journal

            The embedded video of Biden :
            https://www.youtube.com/embed/BRZEs9BRGK4 [youtube.com]

            Is that a deepfake or did he really say that?

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            No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @02:12AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @02:12AM (#1099264)

              Most likely they are trolling with a selective cut. I really wish the 4chan wibblers would stick to their poop filled sandbox instead of spreading it around here.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @03:44AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @03:44AM (#1099289)

              Of course he said it. MSM dismissed it as a gaffe [usatoday.com] rather than recognize it as a Freudian slip. [denverpost.com]

            • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Socrastotle on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:55AM (1 child)

              by Socrastotle (13446) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:55AM (#1099332) Journal

              It's real. You can see the whole [youtu.be] video here. The link I provided skips to the time of the "gaffe". I don't really know what exactly he meant to say, because in context it really looks much worse, in my opinion:

              But one of the things that I think is most important is those who haven’t voted yet, first of all, go to IWillVote.com to make a plan exactly how you’re gonna vote, where you’re gonna vote, when you’re gonna vote, because it can get complicated. Because the republicans doing everything they can to make it harder for people to vote particularly people of color to vote. So go to IWillVote.com.

              Secondly, we’re in a situation where we have put together - and you guys did it for our, the president Obama’s administration, before this - we have put together, I think, the most extensive and and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. What the president is trying to do is discourage people from voting by implying their vote won’t be counted, it can’t be counted, we’re gonna challenge it, and all these things. If enough people vote, it’s gonna overwhelm the system.

              He then later goes on to state:

              Go to particularly if you have, you know, grandparents or older folks in your neighborhood who you know. And they have a, they have an absentee ballot. Show them it matters how they fill it out. It’s complicated, some of it. They haven’t made it easier. For people. In many states. And by the way, why we challenged it may not hold up in Pennsylvania, if the Supreme Court were to change it, but now they’ve allowed the county, if it’s postmarked, it can be counted for all the way for next several days, which it should be.

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              Go to IWillVote.com . There are exactly two buttons: "Check if I'm registered to vote" and "Register to Vote". Generally the information you need for either is easy to obtain even for people who are not who they claim they are: name/date of birth/address. This is why signature matching, at the minimum, was absolutely critical to ensure election integrity. And in places like Georgia, they accepted these [youtu.be] signatures as matching. That's footage from a Senatorial hearing on irregularities in Georgia. And, by the way, that is evidence of fraud. The man who's "signature" that showed is a lawyer and sued the state, because that ballot clearly should not have been accepted. But it was. Incidentally, he's now also been banned from social media, because reasons.

              Anybody who believes this was the "most secure election ever", would have just loved правда. And that's the truth.

              • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 13 2021, @07:10PM

                by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @07:10PM (#1099550) Journal

                Clearly he is referring to overwhelming the Republican voter suppression machine by voting in large numbers. Y'know....how you win an election in a Democracy.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:16AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:16AM (#1099226)

        You have confused collusion with Russia, which was 2016, and for which there is actual evidence. First it was the Dems stealing, and now the courts? Next thing you know, you will be ripping up your American flag drained of blood (Blue Lives Fascist) like that guy trying to storm the Capitol Building! Cops are in on it, too!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:01AM (#1099333)

        Evidently they didn't have any problems stealing the election but even with the collusion of the courts, it remains unlawful.

        You were serious?

        I must get my sarcasm meter fixed.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 12 2021, @09:07PM (11 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @09:07PM (#1099084) Journal

    Go ahead. Prove to a judge that you're not full of shit then reprocess them in any manner the laws allows.

    The only places where you CAN'T do that are Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:53PM (9 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:53PM (#1099136)

      Go ahead. Prove to a judge that you're not full of shit then reprocess them in any manner the laws allows.

      That's just what you dickheads are openly admitting!

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:08PM (8 children)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:08PM (#1099144) Journal

        God forbid we treat every voter the same! The horror!

        Before you know it we'll be counting all the votes too!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:25PM (7 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:25PM (#1099158)

          treat every voter the same

          There's your problem. Would you accept a check in exchange for goods without an exact match signature or verifiable form of id?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:58PM (6 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:58PM (#1099180)

            Nice attempt at shifting there. Regardless of what the rules are, it is important that they be the same for everyone.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:27AM (5 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:27AM (#1099199)

              Nice attempt at shifting there.

              There's no shift, the verification requirements for a check or vote are identical - exact match or GTFO.

              Regardless of what the rules are, it is important that they be the same for everyone.

              They clearly were not. [informationliberation.com]

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:44AM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:44AM (#1099208)

                Founded in 2005, InformationLiberation is an independent news and commentary site dedicated to pursuing the truth wherever it leads, without apology and without care for being politically correct.

                Super reliable source of information there, totally not a propaganda farm /rolls_eyes

                for anyone that doesn't want to bother clicking the link

                Google Trends indicate that searches for "Election Fraud Punishment" surged specifically in the crucial swing-states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona in the weeks before the election.

                One would imagine the term would be searched by people concerned with the punishment for committing election fraud.

                The election results in all three states are being highly-contested.

                As I reported on Friday, Joe Biden got a shockingly disproportionate 60-point advantage over Donald Trump in absentee mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania and a 38-point advantage in Michigan.

                With one graph of google search trends and one showing mail-in ballot percentages by state with Pennsylvania compared to Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Florida. Totally not an attempt to cherry pick "the truth" to push a specific narrative.

                "Fake news" they scream, as they drop every brain cell to believe balatant propaganda as absolute truth.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:57AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:57AM (#1099214)

                  "Fake news" they scream, as they drop every brain cell to believe balatant propaganda as absolute truth.

                  The performative nature of pseudo-reality [newdiscourses.com] was more than balatant (sic) in Biden's non-existent "Office of the President-Elect". [hg.org]

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:20AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:20AM (#1099230)

                NO, you GTFO, traitor! Rebel scum! (Remember, how in Star Wars, that was a good thing? And not a crazy fascist attempt to overthrow the US Constitution, like it is now?)

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @07:29PM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @07:29PM (#1099560)

                Look dude, for the longest time I had a female name on my ID, checks and stuff issued to my deadname, and I didn't have any problems. I was actually expecting at least one person to be a total dick, but that didn't happen. I was even able to deposit a sizable check (5 figures) written to my deadname with my female name ID to my female name checking account, conduct real estate transactions that way, etc so it's not like we're talking petty cash and smokes or booze here.

                As it turns out, the vast majority of people aren't autistic idiots like you, so your hypothesis of exact match fails.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @03:38AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @03:38AM (#1099850)

                  Cool story, dudette.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:27AM (#1099235)

      Must be the reason most of those states went for Trump, nobody can prove/disprove fraud.