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Wait....American history is marred by voter fraud and violence.? Hayes/Tilden wasn't the only one.
But every election is claimed to be the most secure election in American history because this is America and voter fraud and violence can't happen here.

All states use optical scan and potentially DRE. Louisiana only uses DRE. Theoretically DRE alone could steal the election. For optical scan to steal the election there would have to be massive, I repeat, massive conspiracy. None of the 2021 court cases had any merit regarding such a conspiracy.

62 lawsuits in 9 states alleging election fraud immediately after the 2020 elections...all dismissed for lack of evidence...

----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election


2000 Mules was a movie produced purporting to show actual election fraud...all debunked

---https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/g-s1-2298/publisher-of-2000-mules-election-conspiracy-theory-film-issues-apology


Trump's Big LIe is intended to grease the skids for his followers to contest every election he loses. He uses the playbook of his propagandist hero, Goebbels from the Third Reich, and keeps pitching a lie continuosly because the Master, Goebbels said: "repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it"

---https://scholar.harvard.edu/skelman/blog/goebbels-says-repeat-lie-often-enough-and-people-will-believe-it

I am an election worker with real experience, and I manage the scanner(s) at the poll.

My county uses paper ballots. They get run through the scanner by the voter and are deposited by the scanner bellow into a locked cabinet that the scanned ballots fall into. At poll closing, the votes are transmitted directly by the scanner to the election office by way of internal cellphone. Then, the ballots are locked and tagged for transport to the election office. The backup USB thumb drive, is sealed in an envelope that has been initialed by witnesses to each other person's tasks. They travel secured in a different poll worker's cars and 2-3 people are involved/witness and sign off on every single step involving the scanner.

Each car has one D and one R. The USB is only an additional back-up. That's all. Security measures include locking those ballots in the ballot box with a key that only I have at the poll. The ballots are then security/tamper tagged and the serial numbers of the tag are recorded by hand on paper. The count is printed up by the computer and we tape it to the poll window for all to see (including curios voters), before the ballots are transported.

Each and every step with the scanner and the ballots is observed by 2-3 other people working the poll. So to are the unused ballots. Everything must be equal. If there was tampering, the paper ballots would show a discrepancy. Sure someone could try to override the electronic count of the votes, but it all comes down to one basic thing- YOU CAN"T HACK A PAPER BALLOT.

These are about 1/20th of the steps my job involves. Other people doing different things, like check-in at the poll, have their own protocols to prevent the vote being hacked, and provide security that the number of paper ballots disbursed equals the count on the scanner. For every provisional vote, there is a notarized form the voter fills out. The provisional ballots are on a different colored paper. There are probably at least 200 security steps that others must witness and sign-off on, just at the poll.

Having seen all of this at the polls for a around a decade leads me to believe it would take multiple people with different poll jobs to pull off a scam. Could someone at the election office scam the vote? Doubtful, if not impossible, with the number of regular citizens involved making certain, every step is secure and must corelate with the count of every other step exactly.

There is a chit-ton more to it, but I know the ballots that go through the machine are secure at the poll along with the USB. Also, there is the historical voting count for each precinct from prior years. Significant differences from years past are recounted by hand by both an R and a D. Since everyone votes at the same poll, past records compared to each vote's records don't match-up with the history of that poll, there is an automatic hand count rule.

I could go on and on about the steps in the process from printing the ballots, each ballot's individual bar scan code, and the multiple steps of security. There aren't any problems alleged in my county. Is it impossible to hack the vote? Sure. But there is a 98.2% chance that the chain of steps (probably like 300-400 to close a poll) and witnesses, transportation protocols and the like, which make even one improperly cast vote unlikely to get through the system at the poll or involving my scanners.

I thought we already concluded that the greatest abuser of BIG LIE propaganda was the Biden Reich.

Despite frequent claims that President Trump’s warning about vote fraud/vote buying with mail-in ballots is “baselessly” or “without evidence” about mail-in vote fraud, there are numerous examples of vote fraud and vote buying with mail-in ballots in the United States and across the world. Indeed, concerns over vote fraud and vote buying with mail-in ballots causes the vast majority of countries to ban mail-in voting unless the citizen is living abroad.

There are fraud problems with mail-in absentee ballots but the problems with universal mail-in ballots are much more significant. Still most countries ban even absentee ballots for people living in their countries.

Most developed countries ban absentee ballots unless the citizen is living abroad or require Photo-IDs to obtain those ballots. Even higher percentages of European Union or other European countries ban absentee for in country voters. In addition, some countries that allow voting by mail for citizens living in the country don’t allow it for everyone. For example, Japan and Poland have limited mail-in voting to those who have special certificates verifying that they are disabled.

France has made an exception this year to the ban on absentee ballots to those who are sick or at particular risk during the Coronavirus pandemic. Poland and two cities in Russia have adopted mail-in ballots for elections this year only, but most countries haven't changed their regulations.

France banned absentee voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. Mail-in ballots were used to cast the votes of dead people.

According to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center, “These countries have learned the hard way about what happens when mail-in ballots aren’t secured. They have also discovered how hard it is to detect vote buying when both those buying and selling the votes have an incentive to hide the exchange,” said author John R. Lott, the center’s president.

While politicians in the United States have been debating the pros and cons of mail-in voting due to concerns of spreading COVID-19 at the polls and new reports of postal service and vote counting issues, Lott, whose center is known for its gun research, built a voting database of the European Union and the larger Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

Those countries, said Lott, are typically held up by Democrats as a model to follow.

“Liberals and progressives often try to model the U.S. on Western European countries in many ways, but you never hear them arguing that we should adopt their voting rules. There is a reason for that. Banning mail-in voting or requiring people to use photo IDs to obtain a mail-in ballot is quite common in developed countries, especially in Europe,” he said in the report.

The report, titled Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-in Ballots? They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems, listed the rules for voting and widespread cases of fraud and vote buying. His report also listed notable cases of fraud in U.S. voting.

He ended up calling mail-in voting a “throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Like most of the rest of the world, Americans deserve a more trustworthy system.”

Learn something new everyday. My bad. It appears I was wrong. Just like Ivermectin.