There is a reason that Trump wanted his operative Roger Stone out of jail this fall. The GOP WILL try to cheat this year, both by a firehose of dishonest but emotional propaganda and by direct election fraud. People like Karl Rove & Roger Stone are critical to the effort.
Election security exper Jennifer Conn gives advice on stopping them:The threat:
1. Cyberattack, or insider, efforts to alter election rolls to impede voting.
2. Cyberattack, or insider, efforts to actually, change recorded votes or flip them.
3. Intentional or negligent handling of mail in ballots to impede casting votes.
4. Breakdowns of voting machines or equipment inadequate to handle voter volume.
Vulnerabilities
1. Mail in Ballots, delay or destruction are the main concern. Fraud is less an issue with them.
2. E voting. Electronic voting can be programmed to record different votes from what voters thought they cast.
3. E pollbooks, are as dangerous as e voting, can be hacked, fail or misbehave for other reasons.
4. Encoded activation cards & bar codes can be used to disguise deliberate flipping of votes as it happens.
5. Machines break down or are supplied in insufficient numbers.
6. Polling sites closed, located abusively and/or underresourced in material & personnel.
7. Bar codes are useful for numbering ballots but otherwise are a vulnerability.
8. Any scanner, modem or electronic tabulating device can be hacked if attached to the networked or tampered with by nefarious insiders.
9. Centralized tabulating is notorious for being vulnerable to nefarious insiders.
Remedies
1. Paper ballots are needed to memorialize voting for verification & validation.
2. Paper polling records are also needed for the same reason.
3. Records should be eye readable, hand countable and preserved for auditing, verification & validation.
4. Election judges should act like judges.
5. All parties involved should be present to monitor recording, tabulating & verification activities.
6. Partisan officials should not touch anything without witnesses present.
7. All election documentation should be preserved.
8. Elections should be validated and audited by default.
9. Criminal penalties should attach to official vote fraud.
10. Ballots should never be trashed. Spoiled ballots should be be documented [for why they were spoiled] and available in case their invalidation was wrong.
11. Voters should have an automatic right and the infrastructure to report
What we can do
1 support efforts to reform our process.
2. Fill out requests to vote by mail early.
3. If can't vote by mail, fill out your sample ballot in advance to speed voting.
4. Insist on paper ballots.
5. Volunteer as a poll worker or poll watcher if possible, but wear PPE if you do it this year!
6. Get informed!
Of course there is more. You can volunteer with protect our votes & similar below.
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