We need to get this fixed before 2024. I agree with article almost 100%.
Our Electoral Processes Need To Be Fixed Well Before 2024
We have a problem today because basically, half the country either believes that the election was rigged or they’re at least not confident enough to say that it wasn’t. And both election officials and politicians across the nation have given these people far more than sufficient cause to have and express those doubts. If people have sincere questions about the integrity of the system then those questions deserve answers and solutions that are solid enough to restore the trust of the voters or we probably won’t have enough of a nation left to bother voting anymore.
I’m not saying I know whether or not the correct person was declared the winner of the presidential race (or any other, really) but there are two general categories of potential voter fraud that need to be examined and publicly rooted out. One is localized small-scale voter fraud while the other is the possibility of something sweeping, systemic, and intentional. I’ll address them in reverse order.
Were the Dominion voting machines (or those of any other manufacturer for that matter) set up in such a way that they flipped a sufficient percentage of votes from Trump to Biden to change the results statewide? Again, I don’t know because I’ve yet to see definitive proof that they were. But I’ve also yet to hear any satisfactory, comprehensive explanation of how we know that they weren’t. We need to take a fresh look at how such manufacturers are selected and certified to provide equipment for the polling stations. And we’re obviously not just talking about the physical machines themselves, but the software underpinning the process.
Each system being used needs to be examined at a fine-grain level by experienced white hat hackers provided and approved by representatives of both major parties. We need a comprehensive, professional analysis of these systems to determine if there’s some malfeasance built into the code by the supplier. And if that’s not found, we need to know if the machines could be externally hacked after they are put online to alter the results they produce. This needs to be done in every state.
The other half of the “systemic” level problems come with the paper ballots themselves. As long as there are only a relative handful of absentee ballots each year, the numbers don’t overwhelm poll workers and they’re mostly manageable. (More on that in a moment.) When the vast majority of people are showing up at their polling place, filling out the ballot in person and feeding it into the voting machine, you’re at least going to expect some solid results if the machines have been proven to be secure, reliable and without software bias. But the mountains of mail-in ballots that were handled this year obviously opened the door to errors, if not intentional fraud. We were warned in advance by people screaming from the rooftops that tens or hundreds of millions of mail-in ballots were going to cause equally massive problems and that’s precisely how it worked out. We can’t repeat this error in perpetuity Even if the results from those ballots are mostly honest, it doesn’t matter if the nation doesn’t have faith in those results.
Our Electoral Processes Need To Be Fixed Well Before 2024
We have a problem today because basically, half the country either believes that the election was rigged or they’re at least not confident enough to say that it wasn’t. And both election officials and politicians across the nation have given these people far more than sufficient cause to have and express those doubts. If people have sincere questions about the integrity of the system then those questions deserve answers and solutions that are solid enough to restore the trust of the voters or we probably won’t have enough of a nation left to bother voting anymore.
I’m not saying I know whether or not the correct person was declared the winner of the presidential race (or any other, really) but there are two general categories of potential voter fraud that need to be examined and publicly rooted out. One is localized small-scale voter fraud while the other is the possibility of something sweeping, systemic, and intentional. I’ll address them in reverse order.
Were the Dominion voting machines (or those of any other manufacturer for that matter) set up in such a way that they flipped a sufficient percentage of votes from Trump to Biden to change the results statewide? Again, I don’t know because I’ve yet to see definitive proof that they were. But I’ve also yet to hear any satisfactory, comprehensive explanation of how we know that they weren’t. We need to take a fresh look at how such manufacturers are selected and certified to provide equipment for the polling stations. And we’re obviously not just talking about the physical machines themselves, but the software underpinning the process.
Each system being used needs to be examined at a fine-grain level by experienced white hat hackers provided and approved by representatives of both major parties. We need a comprehensive, professional analysis of these systems to determine if there’s some malfeasance built into the code by the supplier. And if that’s not found, we need to know if the machines could be externally hacked after they are put online to alter the results they produce. This needs to be done in every state.
The other half of the “systemic” level problems come with the paper ballots themselves. As long as there are only a relative handful of absentee ballots each year, the numbers don’t overwhelm poll workers and they’re mostly manageable. (More on that in a moment.) When the vast majority of people are showing up at their polling place, filling out the ballot in person and feeding it into the voting machine, you’re at least going to expect some solid results if the machines have been proven to be secure, reliable and without software bias. But the mountains of mail-in ballots that were handled this year obviously opened the door to errors, if not intentional fraud. We were warned in advance by people screaming from the rooftops that tens or hundreds of millions of mail-in ballots were going to cause equally massive problems and that’s precisely how it worked out. We can’t repeat this error in perpetuity Even if the results from those ballots are mostly honest, it doesn’t matter if the nation doesn’t have faith in those results.
