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It really was the most secure election ever

Journal by DeathMonkey

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: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:01PM (7 children)

    by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:01PM (#1099140) Journal

    On Eve of House Vote, McConnell Is Said to Be Pleased About Effort to Impeach Trump [nytimes.com]

    Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.

    At the same time, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader and one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the riot at the Capitol last week, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations.

    It would be sweet to wake up on a morning where Trump has been impeached and confirmed by a trial in the senate. Or alternately, that the 25th has come to be.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:32PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:32PM (#1099163)

    Cocaine Mitch is happy with the "Most secure election evar"? [alternet.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:20AM (#1099196)

      Suddenly you care about Mitch's lack of integrity when it doesn't work in your favor? Shocking indeed.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:51PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:51PM (#1099455) Journal

      McConnell is from Kentucky, one of the few states that refuses to implement a paper trail.

      Best yet doesn't mean perfect.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:48PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @11:48PM (#1099173) Journal

    It would be sweet to wake up on a morning where Trump has been impeached and confirmed by a trial in the senate. Or alternately, that the 25th has come to be.

    Yeah, but then you look over and... AAAAHHHH!!!

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:11AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:11AM (#1099224) Journal

    Mitch is one of those Republicans who love Mammon slightly more than they love Cheeto Jesus, which is to say, he realizes full-blown insurrection would be bad for his stock portfolio. This is the extent of Mitt "Bain Capital" Romney's "conscience" as well, and probably that of every other Republican who isn't sucking the gleba out of Trump's misshapen mushroom.

    There's nothing more to it. They're a bunch of opportunistic egomaniacs who see the world as their personal bank account, and they are the closest thing to "good guys" in the GOP.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:05PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:05PM (#1099432) Journal

    I don't think Trump cares about impeachment: he's hoping that he'll incite the revolution that puts him in absolute power. He doesn't care about the Constitution or America or Americans except for the fact that he needs some of them to accomplish that for him.

    He wants absolute power: he just needs idiotic, deluded Brown shirts to back him up. Giuliani seems to be his Goebbels, if that doesn't make you laugh.

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