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DHS Official Responsible for Election Security Previously Called to Ban Voting Machines
“The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted," a voting rights advocate said.“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”
The “emergency” would empower the president to ban mail ballots & #VotingMachines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.
#law #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
Ramping Up Election Attacks, Trump Does Not Let Reality Get in His Way
Gabbard’s 2020 Election Claims Put Her Back in Favor With Trump
WTAF? I’m just going to assume that they don’t know that #PuertoRico unfairly doesn’t get to vote in presidential #elections — idiots
Reuters Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for #Trump's spy chief, #TulsiGabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's #VotingMachines, said Gabbard's office & 3 sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
#law #ElectionLaw #BigLie #propaganda #idiocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-spy-chiefs-office-investigated-voting-machines-puerto-rico-2026-02-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
How Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Have Been Debunked Again and Again
TIP:
To defeat election rigging, motivate all the opposition* voters of one unit of ballots counting (the kind of smallest area from which you get official ballot results) to share and put in common their proof of vote (digital signature if it is electronic, photo of ballot if vote by mail, etc) or just their word that they voted for their candidate.
So that it makes a number of votes for the opposition*, to be compared by the implied number given officially. At least it gives a lowest bound.
(*) Here I am simplifying a bit, instead of "opposition" I should say "the non-rigging camp". But clearly, in any case, both (or all, if more than two) camps would benefit doing this. Except that it would expose political preferences. But the good thing is that this process cannot be used in bad faith. Someone whose voice is being used against their consent in that kind of open ballot could just contradict them publicly, effectively subtracting their vote (it cannot, however, be used to discredit the whole process, or else it would be too easy for a woe to first give their open vote then retract it publicly to destroy the credibility).
#democracy #votingMachines #electronicVote #internetVote #ballotVote #forceRetireTrump #forceRetireOrban
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
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