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DisgustedByMisleadia 12 points ago +12 / -0

Texas had a limited number of ballot boxes: 1 per county, per the Governor's order.

But, these "boxes" weren't simply on a street corner. The ballot must be presented to a poll worker, along with their identification. It must also be delivered by the voter, and not anyone else.

This preserves the chain of custody.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I guess he shouldn't have been eating those paint chips.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0 (edited)

Yes, all three blocks variants have a one-seat and two-seat version. Spez: "Block" isn't the right nomeclature, because 2 of the 3 variants had muitiple blocks of production.

I wasn't able to quickly find how the US Air Force distributes production between the two. But as I wrote before: as we walked the production line, my escort (an employee of General Dynamics at the time) explained that it was rare to see one on the floor.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks, I appreciate you posting this. It was the first tipoff to me this is a LARP, or at least poorly informed.

I walked down the F-16 production line long ago. My escort pointed out a 2-person model under construction and noted that it was rare.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 68 points ago +68 / -0

I'm fine with that.

It is absurd to elevate someone like her to the status of "martyr". It's obvious to anyone other than a rabid leftist. And it further marginalizes the left.

I know several moderates in my own family that are so disgusted by the antics of the Democrats and the left (yes, I repeated myself), they will never vote for a Democrat in the foreseeable future.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 5 points ago +6 / -1

I'm not sure, either. Waiting for an authoritative cite.

Putting it on the docket may not mean certiorari was granted. It may only mean that SCOTUS will consider whether to grant certiorari .

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DisgustedByMisleadia 5 points ago +5 / -0

From what I've read, if a state doesn't certify their votes by the time Congress counts them (on 2021-01-06, I think), the denominator is lowered, and less than 270 votes are needed for a majority.

What's unclear: if a state certifies their vote and:

  1. A court rejects the result, or
  2. Congress rejects the result.

The Electoral Count Act is unclear on this point.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 3 points ago +3 / -0

The whole point of a vaccine is to trigger an immune response. For some people, that immune response will mimic the actual disease, but it's less severe.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

I just read (and can't find it again, sorry): people over 55 actually have a lower incidence of side effect from the vaccine.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, this is a stupid comparison. The vaccine is 95% effective at preventing you from contracting COVID-19.

It's further stupid to consider a 99% possibility of surviving a COVID-19 to be successful. Would you get on a plane if you had a 1% chance of crashing? Do you have any idea how many planes would crash every day with those odds?

But, let's use the 99% survival rate for a simple thought experiment: if the vaccine is 95% effective, 100 out of 2,000 vaccinated people would contract COVID-19, and of those 100, only 1 would die.

That's 1 out of 2,000, or a 99.95% survival rate. Still not great when applied to 330M people, but it's not a catastrophe.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

In order to do that, they have to disable certificate verification by the clients. An SSL cert is tied to the domain name of the server, and the only way you can use the same cert for multiple servers: a load-balancer precedes them.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

I would like to see that, too. But as far as I know, that hasn’t been published yet.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yup, I doubt it, too.

In order to do this properly, each machine must have it's own public/private key pair. Then, when the XML/JSON is exported, the machine signs the exported file with its private key.

When importing the file elsewhere, the receiving machine would need all the public keys. When importing it, it would use the machine identifier (in the file, and therefore protected by the signature) to select the correct public key, then use that to confirm the file came from the specified machine, and that it had not been modified.

In order to protect the integrity of the process, a key management process must be created to segregate the private keys from the public keys, so that no one can circumvent the digital chain of custody.

It's not rocket science. This is all well-established technology. Open source software already exists to do it.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

From what I can see, the underside of the table is empty when they bring it in. The black drape is waving back and forth as she moves it.

Also, you can see when the table first appears, the underside is empty:

https://youtu.be/cbTSUkA8xgI?t=994

The timestamp is 8:21:03 AM, but the link above should take you right to the right point in the video.

You can see the gray strips on the floor under the table.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was wondering if they were just rescanning the batch after a jam. They are supposed to clear the results for that batch and start over. But, there have been reports of people not doing that, either intentionally or erroneously.

But, I think I can see the last ballot in the batch disappearing, leaving the input slot empty. Then, she rescans the batch again.

Can anyone else see it?

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

Has anyone posted the video showing when ballots were put under the black table with the drape over it?

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DisgustedByMisleadia 3 points ago +4 / -1

They can, but the specs for both XML and JSON include provisions for a digital signature. I posted links here:

https://thedonald.win/p/11QlFgNFTh/x/c/4DpMxRUuNxG

Of course, it remains to be seen if this software uses them. And, you would need access to the key pair used to sign the XML or JSON to determine if the file had been modified (otherwise, someone could just regenerate the signature).

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +2 / -1

The XML spec supports a digital signature:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/

There's also a spec for a JSON digital signature:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7515

CodeMonkey should know about these.

But, it remains to be seen if these signatures were used in the files generated by the voting machine.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'd like to see more details of how this was measured.

If I was testing these machines, I'd start with a set of ballots in which the votes were known exactly: 50 Biden and 50 Trump. Then, I'd scan them and look at the result.

Next, I'd repeat it with 55 Biden and 45 Trump, and vice-versa. Then, keep increasing the margin until they were 100 Trump (and 100 Biden). If any discrepancies appear, that's evidence of tampering by the software.

I'd set the machine's clock to 1:00 AM on 2020-11-04. It's child's play to change behavior of the software based on time, and this would be one way for compromised software to pass certification before election day. (It might be necessary to sandbox the machine on a closed network and set up a bogus NTP server, as that's one way to avoid revealing a compromise during testing)

I'd also test multiple machines, pulling them from different counties. But, I'd walk into the warehouse and say: "that one", buried under the ones on top. Anyone that has done an inventory audit knows why.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +6 / -4

It's probably not a leftist.

I've had alleged Trump supporters do it here simply because I dared to disagree with them.

For a while, someone was running a script every day to downvote all my postings.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +2 / -0

Others have explained the start of the process. Here's the rest:

  1. The House and the Senate vote separately on whether to refuse the electoral votes.
  2. You can probably guess how the House will vote.
  3. The Senate will be 50-48 at the time of the electoral vote count. The GA runoff will be held the prior day, but the results likely won't be available in time to swear in the winners.
  4. Only one Republican defection will be enough to result in a tie in the Senate. Two will block the objection. VP Pence presides, but cannot cast a tie-breaker vote.
  5. If the Senate and House votes disagree, the state governor casts the tie breaker vote.

However, all of this presumes that the objection is not ruled out of order. If the state followed the legal process in place before the election, and certifies their electoral votes by the safe harbor date (12/8, I think), the Electoral Count Act limits the grounds for objection.

Democrats tried to object to counting Florida's electoral votes in 2000. VP Gore ruled them out-of-order, because FL had followed their legal process that culminated in Bush v. Gore (2000) being decided just before the safe harbor date.

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