Prepress dudes would have had to intentionally thrown some "artifacts" on the ballots. Would need to be artifacts that dont replicate well when ballot is scanned.
I suppose there is a scenario where POTUS could have asked enlisted America's trusted ballot printers (afraid to lose their business to electronic elections in future) to help protect the integrity of the elections by creating an intentional pattern of "artifacts" that look like "dust" on the plates or blankets to -- basically it would look like half assed quality control.
There's an ir "watermark" for the forgers to find, but the real water mark is an algorithmically specific dot pattern. The pattern could even be cryptographic - which is to say if you have the key you can derive numerous 'results' to print but with out the key you could replicate one you saw but never create a new original one that would pass the cryptographic test. Making forgery of NEW ballots literally impossible.
And yes, as you say, if it was just a typical watermark the dots would absolutely appear to be poor qc.
crypto, now you're talking blockchain. Every ballot traceable on a public ledger. Using a cryptographic mark. That is what bitcoin is except its "coins". Every bitcoin transaction every can be seen and never tampered with! and never goes away unless all computers with the bitcoin ledger disappear from this reality.
Prepress dudes would have had to intentionally thrown some "artifacts" on the ballots. Would need to be artifacts that dont replicate well when ballot is scanned.
I suppose there is a scenario where POTUS could have
askedenlisted America's trusted ballot printers (afraid to lose their business to electronic elections in future) to help protect the integrity of the elections by creating an intentional pattern of "artifacts" that look like "dust" on the plates or blankets to -- basically it would look like half assed quality control.relevant links...
https://thegroundtruthproject.org/the-hidden-keepers-of-american-elections-2020-report-for-america/
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/03/848347895/ballot-printers-increase-capacity-to-prepare-for-mail-voting-surge
That's actually brilliant.
There's an ir "watermark" for the forgers to find, but the real water mark is an algorithmically specific dot pattern. The pattern could even be cryptographic - which is to say if you have the key you can derive numerous 'results' to print but with out the key you could replicate one you saw but never create a new original one that would pass the cryptographic test. Making forgery of NEW ballots literally impossible.
And yes, as you say, if it was just a typical watermark the dots would absolutely appear to be poor qc.
Brilliant
crypto, now you're talking blockchain. Every ballot traceable on a public ledger. Using a cryptographic mark. That is what bitcoin is except its "coins". Every bitcoin transaction every can be seen and never tampered with! and never goes away unless all computers with the bitcoin ledger disappear from this reality.
https://thedonald.win/p/11PpBKYCKO/heres-a-way-to-identify-fake-bal/