Matt BlazeApr 11, 2025

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable.

I said it then, and I will repeat it now: There is simply no evidence that the 2020 election was "hacked". Krebs's forthright clarity about this in November, 2020 was a brave and important act of public service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

Addressing Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship

 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES The Federal Government has a constitutional duty and a moral responsibility to respect and

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Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Apr 11, 2025

@mattblaze Paul Krugman - an economist not a cybersecurity professional - raised concerns about the vulnerabilty of US electronic voting machines in a piece in the NYT, which I have in print if you want to read it (we have everything in print).

But nope, there's no evidence so far that the election was stolen in this manner.

Edit: I probably should have read the year in Matt's post. 😆

Show threadAnnie GApr 11, 2025
@ApostateEnglishman @mattblaze unlike the most recent presidential election, where swing state votes seemed oddly uniform in their oddness (https://smartelections.us/home#62a6843e-b1d8-4584-9d68-1c627a013bb7)...
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Show threadRonny LamApr 13, 2025
@AnnieG @ApostateEnglishman @mattblaze Are you implying here that in fact the 2024 elections are rigged, stolen?
Show threadAnnie GApr 13, 2025
@ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman @mattblaze I don't have the background or data expertise to know, but observations from data people both at SMARTelections and Election Truth Alliance have been concerning. And the universal reassurance that keeps being repeated around elections, that "everything looks good" because no irregularities have been found, relies far too heavily on a tautology: there have been no irregularities found in exactly NO investigations, NO hand recounts (no, wait, some recounts, in other races, showing multiple different results). Hard to find what no one's looked for. Rockland County NY actually may get a recount, but it's not in a swing state, so probably moot whatever the outcome there. I'd be happy with a single swing state recount..
Show threadMatt BlazeApr 13, 2025
@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman Sigh. What you are saying is simply wrong. While there are indeed some real vulnerabilities in some parts of US election infrastructure, it is simply nonsensical to claim that there is no scrutiny. Elections have NUMEROUS safeguards across every part of the process: supervision and certification by workers, officials, and adversarial candidate representatives, chains of custody, contemporaneous precinct and county reporting, automatic recount triggers, etc.
Show threadMatt BlazeApr 13, 2025
@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman And the graphs you cite of supposed “anomalies” are nothing more than pretty pictures labeled with alarming conclusions that don’t actually follow from the data. There isn’t actually any analysis. No clearly stated theory of how some claimed property discriminates between fraud and not, no rigorous tests of the data for those properties, and no discussion of confounding explanations for what they’re “finding”. It’s just BS that people want to believe.
Show threadMatt BlazeApr 13, 2025
@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman worse, this is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit pseudoscientific “analysis” that the Trump supporters were peddling after the 2020 election to “prove” foul play then. It’s as meaningless for 2024 as it was for 2020.
Show threadteirdes
@mattblaze wouldn't like gerrymandering be a more serious issue than vote counts?
Apr 13, 2025 at 9:16pmWeb
Show threadMatt BlazeApr 13, 2025
@teirdes Gerrymandering is an example of (mostly) legal ways in which the structures in which elections happen can be manipulated to influence outcomes. But it’s essentially different from hacking vote tabulations or stuffing ballot boxes.