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DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thread of posts refuting 2024 Election Deniers.

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DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 3h

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Maron is awesome and correct. Maher is a dick.
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DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 4h

It sucks, but that likely can't be done short of a Constitutional Amendment.
It only falls under Congress' Enumerated Powers under very tenuous legal theories.
A good CRS analysis is here.
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

www.congress.gov

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 4h

I learned something today! Thanks!

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 4h

We are currently fighting against Naperville taking an IMEA extension for another 20 years. You should see they gymnastics being performed by the city's "neutral analyst" to show that coal is cheaper. You won't believe it, but he left out the capex cost from his analysis.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 6h

Ugh. "Cyber Security Expert".
His name is Nate. He is an IT admin. He resets passwords.

And the "turned off again" doesn't make sense. They don't run the ballots through the machine again. They manually recount them and compare it to the original machine count.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, and I said "Risk Limiting Audit". You said "Forensic Audit". So you should also know about Logic and Accuracy audits conducted on the machines before and after the election. A sample of mock ballots with known counts are ran through the machines and the count is verified

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 20h

These are inconsistently named and the states/counties are bad about making the results easy to locate.

Was there a particular state you're most interested in?

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 20h

Maricopa County, Arizona
apps.azsos.gov/election/202...

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DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 20h

Georgia
sos.ga.gov/news/georgia...

Georgia's 2024 Statewide Risk Limiting Audit Confirms Voting System Accuracy | Georgia Secretary of State

The Secretary of State’s office is pleased to announce that the audit confirmed the outcome...

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DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, we do know how people voted last November.
There were Risk Limiting Audits conducted in all the swing states; a manual recount of a statistically-significant sample of machine-tabulated paper ballots. The tabulation was verified.
I hate it, but Trump won.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 21h

That video is 17 years old. Now, all electronic tabulation machines must execute a cryptographic process to detect any change made to the code.
Plus, there are Risk Limiting Audits conducted in all swing states; a manual recount of a sample of machine-counted ballots.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 21h

It's not "all digital". 96% of all ballots cast in the US were on paper.
In all swing states, there are "Risk Limiting Audits"; a manual recount of a statistically significant sample of machine-tabulated votes. Only a miniscule difference in the machine tally was found.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 21h

About the only thing that amounts to election theft was the bomb threats to precincts.
The rest of it isn't true. There are layers of audits and technological safeguards to prevent the machine hacking you're asserting.
I hate the result, but I also hate our side look like MAGA election deniers.

DB Main @dbmain.bsky.social · 21h

Please stop with this starlink nonsense. It wasn't done and it makes us look like MAGA fools.