cramsessionMar 25

Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/spies-lies-and-fake-investors-in-disguise-how-plotters-tried-to-flip-a-european-election-1f42b39a

Show threadSoftTalker
I thought we were all told a few years ago that it wasn't possible to rig an election, at least not to any degree that would change the outcome. A lot of people were called crazy or worse for believing it might be possible.
Mar 25 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadImustaskforhelpMar 25

Conflict of interests. We were told these things by the very same people who have an interest to rigging an election :-)

at some point, this problem boils down to something like trusting trust and I think that the answer might be similar to how stage0 in compilers work in that smaller stages which can be easily audited combine/compile together to form larger stages. (Not sure if this allegory fits at the moment but I do feel like decentralization can definitely help in these cases which is my point but these same people who told that it wasn't possible aren't looking for/actively hindering any prospects of decentralization due to once again, conflict of interests)

Show threadJumpCrisscrossMar 25

> lot of people were called crazy or worse for believing it might be possible

Sorry, when were questions about Slovenia’s voting system considered crazy?

Show threadGudMar 25
Who would say that? Elections are rigged all the time.
Show threadwas8309Mar 25
Mueller correctly stated there was an orchestrated disinformation campaign by Russia. That's different than Russians under voting tables stuffing ballots in their pockets. the two are conflated so that the right wing can call it all the 'russia hoax'