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

The White House
Show threadBill ZaumenApr 11, 2025
@mattblaze I thought the vote was skewed by billionaires throwing in a lot of money at the last minute, the fault of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, but there is no evidence whatsoever of any problem with counting the votes. It is easy to tell: you randomly select a sample of ballots (say, 10,000) and see if they agree with what the machines recorded. If more than a trivial fraction are wrong, you will detect that with a high level of confidence.
Show threadWorikApr 21, 2025

@bzdev @mattblaze

> you randomly select a sample of ballots (say, 10,000) and see if they agree with what the machines recorded.

That seems true, but is mistaken.

The machines do not record votes randomly, they are highly selective. By geography.

By carefully selecting which machines I use in the comparison I could prove anything

So you need to have a random selection of machines, too

I have done a lot of work in NZ on polling booths. Not random at all

Show threadQuinn Norton
@mattblaze ooh did you get away to do some NZ photography? I know im way off topic but the landscape is so varied and breathtaking and id love to see your pics of it.
Apr 22, 2025 at 1:28amWeb
Show threadBill ZaumenApr 22, 2025
@quinn @mattblaze That requests reminds me of being in Yosemite: a bunch of climbers went to the Sunday brunch at the Ahwahnee Hotel & afterwards we had a game of cricket billed as "Australia versus the world." The "world" was mostly Americans, with a few Kiwis (slang for people from New Zealand & as far as I know not derogatory) who knew how to play. The world lost - no surprise given that most of us were completely clueless. Our NZ friends couldn't compensate for our ineptness.