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The U.S. election system is secure, but human nature is a vulnerability

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By DAVID KLEPPER and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

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Fortunately it sounds like the wall is going back up around the Captiol.

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“I think that’s almost certain to happen,” former CIA political analyst Adam Darrah said when discussing the risk of perception hacks.

Darrah, now vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity company ZeroFox, said misleading people into thinking election systems are vulnerable is a lot easier than actually hacking into them. ”It’s a way to induce panic. We are very technically resilient. Our emotional resilience, our hypersensitivity, that’s still a challenge.”

Chalking it up to 'human error' is a copout I think.

It is clear that unrestrained capitalism and corporate influence on politics from the Citizens United decision is having a malignant influence on politics: see Trump and Musk's 1 million a day to a voter.

And the entrance of betting markets, like lotteries very regressive.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/31/business/kalshis-daring-bet-on-election-betting-is-paying-off/

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Dominion warning they were going to sue soon brought mtg’s crazy train to a screeching halt.

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Lets see how many people have bought the lie that US elections are safe and secure.

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Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn't be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said,

So what do you expect election officials to say??

Fact is that any system that uses mail votes and electronic devices can and will be manipulated in a huge and complex election with big incentives to influence it. By definition. The only question is to what degree. So this issue only becomes relevant when there are small margins.

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dutch

Lets see how many people have bought the lie that US elections are safe and secure.

For example, the BIOS password for the voting machines in Colorado was online for weeks.... very "safe and secure". Safe to assume there are countless problems like this.

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For example, the BIOS password for the voting machines in Colorado was online for weeks.... very "safe and secure". Safe to assume there are countless problems like this.

And that is only one glaring example. The authors of the above propaganda piece are banking on the ignorance of leftists who trust whatever legacy media spoonfeed them.

In fact, a poll was done asking Americans the likeliness of election fraud in the 2020 election.

40% of Democrats responded "likely".

Everyone knows the system is broken. The only question is how badly.

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In some states, voting shenanigans have always been widespread. I was once in a conversation with three Wisconsin Democrats: a party activist/academic, a union president, and a Democrat normie. The activist referred to vote fraud in Milwaukee as their best bet to win an upcoming election. The normie protested that voting fraud isn’t real. The activist rolled his eyes and looked at the union president. The union president responded, “As union president, I can’t admit that there is voting fraud, but all I can say is, thank God for Milwaukee!”

The thing is, Republicans ran their own games a few miles down the road, and the two often more or less balanced.

Then 2016 happened.

Tech people have shown for years that hacking individual electronic voting machines is easy, fast, and virtually undetectable.

After Democrats screamed in 2004 that Diebold electronic machines couldn’t be trusted because the company owners were Republican, what did a wealthy Democrat promptly do? Founded Dominion so that Democrats would have their own machines.

Even in a place like Wisconsin with paper ballots, small and committed groups of people find ways. It takes an alarmingly small number of people to inject 50,000 votes into a race if those people are well-positioned and tightly organized.

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What sadness, what sadness, what sorrow!

Mambru went away to war,

I don't know when he'll be back.

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I don't know when he'll be back."

US Civil War II: revenge is Orange, coming soon?

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If that is the truth, then why are there so many irregularities and lawsuits happening, it doesn’t and won’t if everything is secure, it’s all going to get messy, very messy in the next few hours, over 2000 lawyers are on standby, buckle up.

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bass4funkToday 05:49 pm JST

If that is the truth, then why are there so many irregularities and lawsuits happening

Sometimes there is fire because someone is running around starting fires.

, it doesn’t and won’t if everything is secure, it’s all going to get messy, very messy in the next few hours, over 2000 lawyers are on standby, buckle up.

The judges seems to take perverse pleasure in shooting down MAGA election lawsuits. That is the only explanation I have for why the MAGA lawyers haven't been charged with contempt.

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If that is the truth, then why are there so many irregularities and lawsuits happening, it doesn’t and won’t if everything is secure, it’s all going to get messy, very messy in the next few hours, over 2000 lawyers are on standby, buckle up.

Just the simplest question possible:

Where are you getting your information from?

Just a link so we can make sure this isn’t made-up disinformation. Thanks in advance.

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Sometimes there is fire because someone is running around starting fires.

Well, as the old saying goes, where there’s smoke, there are Democrats.

The judges seems to take perverse pleasure in shooting down MAGA election lawsuits.

They were unprepared last time because this style of doing elections was new, they corrected that and we are already seeing and checkmating the Dems as fast as they can dish out any irregularities

That is the only explanation I have for why the MAGA lawyers haven't been charged with contempt.

And they won’t be, that’s why they’re now playing the Dems game and now they are on the defense.

Just the simplest question possible:

Where are you getting your information from?

Huh? All over the place, well if you bypass all the lib noise news sources

*Just a link so we can make sure this isn’t made-up disinformation. Thanks in advance.*

You can think whatever you want, it’s not important whether you believe it or not, has nothing to Do with your personal beliefs or requests, I’m not here to validate your personal feelings nor anyone else’s, and a link wouldn’t help because you wouldn’t believe it anyway, so no worries.

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