GAE Grows Weary Of Electioneering

Fixing elections is easy. Convincing people to accept the results, not so much. This best explains the difference between American passivity and Brazilian revolt in the wake of blatantly fixed elections. Americans are high-trust people genetically wired over a thousand European winters for cooperation even with enemies. Brazilians…

Brazilians have football, therefore violent protest is merely their #2 sport.

Brazil, US show that secure elections require agreement – not just cybersecurity and clear ballot records

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23 January 2023 By Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Disclosure statement: Herbert Lin has received funding indirectly from the Hewlett Foundation…

Herbie Lyin’ has a problem. He’s figured out how to rig elections… as you’ll soon see, he’s an expert in “digital vote counting”… but as Drumpf and Brazil demonstrated, there’s no point in winning an election if the results aren’t accepted.

This was not a problem in America when the Cuck Party would reassure its voters that they should vote harder next time. But then the Cuck Party self-destructed over Trump.

There are a number of ways to run a legitimate election. But the U.S. has learned in recent years, and Brazil learned in recent weeks, that it’s not always simple.

There is only one way to run a legitimate election: INDEPENDENTLY MONITORED AND VERIFIABLE BY HOSTILE THIRD PARTIES.

There are technical mechanics and processes of how votes are cast, collected and counted. But those are ultimately less important than the agreement – among opposing parties, and across a society – to abide by the results of those processes.

When he’s right, he’s right. Poor Herbie. He tried so hard to lie convincingly, but even when “the science” finally backed him up like it’s supposed to, nobody trusts his unverifiable and self-serving results.

Why do people not trust the hirelings of globalist bankster foundations? And how can they be forced into a state of trust?

Answer for the fool: bribes.

Answer for the midwit: “Science says real communism has never been tried.”

Answer for the wise: “shut up shut up Cancel Cancel Cancel!”

In 2020, President Donald Trump alleged, without evidence…

Such as the F Curve and video surveillance of panel vans & suitcases… by the way, Lyin is a registered Republican…

..that election fraud in several states had caused him to lose. A number of audits in various states found no evidence that irregularities in voting or vote counting processes had any effect on the outcome of balloting in those states.

But there WERE irregularities, yes? And a number of audits DID find evidence?

Some of these results were later challenged in lawsuits seeking to alter the results of the election, and in every case, the election’s outcome was determined [by the winner] to be accurate.

I fixed it for him.

In Brazil in late 2022, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro lost an election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president seeking a return to office. Even before the election, Bolsonaro had cast doubt on the integrity of the country’s voting system. On Jan. 8, 2023, after Lula had been in office for a week, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters, including right-wing militants, attacked key government buildings, including the building that houses the national Congress.

As a scholar who studies election integrity and cybersecurity, I see the source of these violent disputes not as the result of procedural or technical flaws in the voting system but rather as a failure of certain individuals living in democratic society to uphold the fundamental principles of democracy.

“You lost the election. You aren’t allowed to question the results. Put down the ugly stick, loser, you need to trust your new regime… oops, I mean the old regime that you kicked out the last time you had a chance… you must have changed your mind, why else would you vote the way I said you did?”

I and others in my field tend to agree, and think most regular people would too, that election officials should aspire to the following basic criteria:

• • Every person with a legal right to vote is able to cast a ballot in a given election.
  • No person without a legal right to vote is able to cast a ballot.
  • No person is allowed to cast more than one ballot.
  • Every ballot unambiguously indicates the voter’s preference.
  • Every ballot cast by a legally legitimate voter is counted, but no other ballots are counted.
  • No ballot cast can be associated with the voter who cast the ballot (that is, voters can maintain the secrecy of their ballots).

None of that matters. What DOES matter, is COUNTING the votes!

But Brazil has done away with paper voting entirely. The nation’s election officials take many measures to ensure that the electronic voting machines are working properly…

QED.

To help uphold these standards, many election security analysts, including me, believe that paper records are an essential element of electronic voting systems. They leave open the possibility of recounting ballots in the event of a claim that electronic ballots were counted incorrectly. In general, only people who appear to have lost elections make these claims, though some states’ laws require automatic recounts when the margin of difference is small.

Herbie is surprised that the people who win elections, are not suspicious about their victory. Election integrity must have the result that those losers ALSO trust the election results.

The right way to do election integrity, is to import a single private corporation with an Orwellian name like Dominion Voting Machines, proud subsidiary of the respectable Clinton Foundation, who will operate the elections from a centralized location in Germany or China. You can trust the results because ten percent went to the Big Guy and cybersecurity experts said the process was very modern!

The wrong way to do election integrity, is require voter ID, a paper trail and independent observers at every step of the locally-operated process.

But no combination of these measures, nor any of the other protections, such as public posting of vote tallies and requiring voters to use fingerprints to unlock voting machines or to present photo identification to poll workers, is completely foolproof.

We’re talking thief-proof, Herbie. Not foolproof. We’re talking fraud detection.

What good are you, Herbie? If you highly-compensated ‘experts’ can’t figure out a better way to run an election than Syria, then I know who should be enjoying your sinecure. Not you.

Fraudulent ballots could potentially be manufactured and inserted into the counting process without being detected. Ballots can be irretrievably destroyed after being cast. Improperly made marks on a ballot may not clearly indicate the voter’s intent.

All of those are DETECTABLE flaws in the system. The next best thing to a system working properly, is for its faults to be easily flagged. Scratch that… it’s the same thing. You ONLY know the system is working properly IF the faults can be easily flagged!

Despite the inevitable flaws in voting and counting, democracies need to conduct elections. They must choose election officials for whom the public’s confidence in the security of the elections is more important than any partisan outcome.

Then why have elections? If the people can choose an election official that even his enemies love and trust, then he should be in charge.

And given a catchy name like “Santa Claus”.

Meanwhile, Lyin just reasoned himself out of a job.

True democracies require candidates who agree on election rules and processes in advance and agree to abide by the outcome of elections, even when they wish the results were otherwise.

“I promise to abide by this upcoming election’s official outcome no matter how fraudulent and undocumented it might appear to be!” Gonna be a hard sell.

Soon, the champions of Democracy will tire of people not believing their lies, and democratically suspend the democratic process for the good of democracy.

Who could ever have guessed, that We the People of Western Civilization wanted to be ruled by crime cartels, pathological liars and the pawns of foreign powers?