[ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> Ja, most people vote by mail now in California.  Even with mail in ballots we proles have no way of knowing if our ballots are counted properly, which reduces confidence in elections.

No one can know anything absolutely.  But I do recall getting specific
notice that my ballot had been received and counted.

For what it's worth, North Carolina offers the same.  NC's service is
provided through a company called BallotTrax.  I forget if California
used them too or some other service.

> I am suggesting a public-access spreadsheet showing the name of the eligible voter, the number of the ballot which that voter filled out, a secret voter-created password that would allow that voter to verify that ballot went in as he intended.  With that system, the vote is both secret and verifiable.

Passwords can be hacked.  Moreover, people would fear that the
government would fall to the temptation to provide a passwordless "for
admins only" access mechanism.

People would raise privacy concerns of making it easier to find out if
someone had voted at all, but I can see strong arguments for doing so.
It's already easy for those who know how, so the actual impact to
privacy doesn't appear to be significant.