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OT: American Politics

MindzEye said:
Yeah definitely. My layperson's understanding of the overall security measures suggests that it is though. Drives are loaded to machines with multiple witnesses signing off on the serial numbers of each, machines are kept in a secure location once loaded, drives are removed with multiple witnesses and SN checked before putting them together in a tamper resistent bag. If someone did defeat all of that and gain access to a drive (or multiple) they're encrypted. If they beat the encryption the drives are formatted to the proprietary file system that voting machine company has built which the attacker would either need a machine that runs, or have the ability to emulate that environment to be able to access the data on the drives....which my knowledge breaks down at this point, but I'd imagine they would have be able to not just alter the data, but do it in a way that doesn't log the results of the change, while doing it in a proprietary OS built to not allow that to happen.

and they would have to do all of that in between the time the drives were removed, and roughly when they were expected to arrive at the central registry that they were doing the vote tallying at.

And with all of that said....if we were going to see that type of election attack, you would think that the amount of hand counted recounts we've seen over the last ~20 years would have uncovered just one attempt to do this and we haven't. Because it's fucking hard and there are better/easier ways to influence an election.
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I'm not surprised that you know all of this, but I am amused
 
FlyGuy said:
So the D’s collectively decided to buck their voting trend of the last decade+?
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not exactly.

D's early voting in 2020 was higher than ever before cause of covid. I haven't seen all the numbers but my expectation is that D's early voting will totals will be less than in 2020, but higher than in 2016. and higher than the Rs.
 
thehabhater said:
Laugh, but hundreds of thousands are going to do just that.
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oh, way more than that.

Though I guess 10-20 million is technically made up of hundreds of thousands....

'member...Tay Tay has 283 million social media followers. Not all Americans of course, but still.
 
Wayward DP said:
not exactly.

fewer Dems who voted early in 2020 are also voting early this year. that means that the Dems, assuming they retain all their 2020 voters, will do better on election day this year than in 2020.
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Ah so the assumption is the D EV that didn’t EV this year are voting on ED. Not sure id be making that as a reliable assumption
 
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