[ExI] I wish this was fake news

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Dave Sill
Subject: Re: [ExI] I wish this was fake news

 

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:43 PM, <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

>>…Barbra Streisand: “I’ve talked to senators from Michigan and Wisconsin. I do believe, like I believed during Bush, they were playing with those voter machines…” 

 

>…Seriously? Hearsay from a celebrity is the best you've got?

 

Not seriously.  I got a huge heehaw when I saw a Hollyweird star point fingers at the voting machines.  I thought the day would never come.

 

My comment from years ago is that if an election ever comes out differently than expected, it could result in a disputed election.  One did.  The next one could come out waaaay different than expected.  A disputed election now would be really bad news.

 

 

>>…Elections are done on a state level.  Trump can’t do anything either way.  It isn’t his call.

 

>…Then you're not trying to solve one problem, you're trying to solve 50 problems. Good luck with that…

 

True.  The voting machine problem cannot be solved at the federal level.

 

>…Trump, congress, and the entire federal government are constantly doing things that aren't their call…

 

I agree that they do.  But it is not legal.  This problem has to be solved legally.

 

>…Who would object to a national effort to replace old, vulnerable, proprietary voting machines with new, open source, more secure voting machines with a paper trail?  -Dave

 

The people who benefit from the arrangement would object.  If done illegally, I would object.  States must carry the ball on this.  State governments must do something they have previously persistently refused to do: publish vote totals of paper ballots, mail-in ballots and machine ballots as separate numbers.  That alone would give us a hint that something is amiss.  But it could make a new problem as well, if we discover something is amiss.  I want the new problem.

 

spike

 

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