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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 10h

There's not much publicly available on this but what little there is says tabulator counts are faster and more accurate than hand counts

dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha...

votingrightslab.org/2024/02/27/b...

If you've got other references, I'd love to read them.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 13h

Colorado does risk limiting audits on all elections, I believe. The procedure used only gives you statistical confidence, but it's very good at detecting wrongly declared winners.

I confess I didn't look at OR and WA as closely.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

now do jan 6th

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 19h

There is no reason not to use tabulators, lots of reasons not to use voting machines.

People who peddle mistrust of tabulators think they are better than you, their preferences should decide and yours ignored. They are charlatans and bullies.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 19h

People like Mike Lindell are confusing tabulating with voting. Tina Peters, convicted Qanon election interferer, seems to have allowed someone to tamper with tabulator software, because Mesa County Colorado was able to do a complete hand recount. And got the same results.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 19h

You can look up "colorado risk limiting audits" to see how Colorado does things. Tabulators can be, and are above board, and verifiable. It's easy to duplicate and try out the audit method. I've done that: bruceediger.com/posts/risk-l...

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 19h

They're conflating two things:

Tabulators mechanically/electronically count ballots

Voting machines present a ballot representation to the voter, accept inputs, then tally inputs

Tabulators are common. Ballots exist outside the machine, verifiable. Vote by mail states use these, and verify.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 22h

Does Thune have anything going for him other than height and good hair?

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 22h

The thing is, they're almost certainly lying. If we've discovered anything about conservatives, we've discovered they lie constantly.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks but Gubble is here to stay. If you don’t embrace Gubble then you’ll get left behind by everyone that has embraced Gubble

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta give them catchy names, like "Morpefa", or "Optifa", so that the Boomers and the news anchors feel cool talking about them, and don't have to work to figure out what Morpefa is all about.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Why should Democrats vote to bail out Republicans? Heard of the Hastert Rule? Has a single R voted for a Democrat budget in the last 20 years? If Johnson can't manage his own caucus it might be time for a new Speaker, one who can bargain.

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 1d

I remember answering a Unix sysadmin question in Usenet alt/sewing. The asker knew that a female coded group would answer the question faster and without hectoring. She got multiple correct responses within 10 minutes. Early 1990s

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh please

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Your owner and editor, Oligarch Bezos, won't be happy with this! It's not promoting weird right wing bullshit.

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, what compelling proof? I've heard nothing about this. In fact, is there any compelling proof that a larger "antifa" even exists, like the Symbionese Liberation Army existed in the 1970s?

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 2d

The all-rubber Burger King king.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 2d

I was really surprised by how sour the self described conservatives got. Hadn't thought of it this way, but the sourness does follow from the worldview.

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