Election security fears doused with reality: Top officials say Nov 3 'was the most secure in American history.' The end
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Despite ongoing unsubstantiated claims of fraud from the outgoing Trump administration, senior election officials charged with securing the 2020 vote on Thursday said they had done so successfully. In effect, a coalition of federal and state bodies have openly pushed back on the President's empty allegations today.
"The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," said the Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council Executive Committees in [1]a joint statement , along with the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other organizations.
"Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result."
The officials credited security measures, such as pre-election testing and state certification of voting machines and the US Election Assistance Commission’s certification of voting equipment, for building confidence in the voting process. And they said recounts are to be expected.
"When states have close elections, many will recount ballots," the officials said. "All of the states with close results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary."
This process, they said, improves election security and resilience, allowing for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors.
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"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," they said.
Others recently have said as much. On Wednesday, Matt Blaze, a professor of computer science and law at Georgetown University, [3]said via Twitter, "To my knowledge (and this is my field of expertise), no serious evidence has yet been found or presented that suggests that the 2020 election outcome in any state has been altered through technical exploitation. Period."
Democrat Joe Biden is [4]projected to win this year's presidential election. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has, incidentally, come to the [5]conclusion Biden has won even though the social network continues to be used to spread misinformation about the election. President Trump has not conceded. ®
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[1] http://www.nass.org/node/2118
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/05/blaze_blackhat_keynote/
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[4] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/07/us_presidential_campaign/
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Fraud
POTUS45's claims of fraud are entirely besides the point for him. If he couldn't dog-whistle "Fraud!", he'd figure out sometime else, like "Paid for votes!", the old standby (for him) of "Illegals!", or maybe even as far as "[X} is actually a Chinese implant spy!". He's proton-authoritarian and the methods that he, and his enablers, use to forward their biases and agendas will change on a whim to suit whatever they are trying to get away with. The sad part is how many so-called "freedom loving Americans" are quickly, and willingly, falling into the cheap tricks common to a third-rate dictator, all the while holding their Bible and their flag.
It's simple, really: If Trump doesn't concede by January 20th then arrest him and find him guilty of treason. The trail should last, oh, 10 minutes max?
Ribbon
Since the Donald is behaving like a 5 year old that lost the egg and spoon race at kindy sports day, can we just give him a participation ribbon or something?
"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," they said.
That is an outright lie. The software in some states glitched and switched a bunch of votes from Trump to Biden. There's a list of states where that happened. Wisconsin and Georgia being two. The software in all cases where this happened was published by Dominion Voting Systems.
The only "evidence" I can find for this claim comes originally from OAN, then amplified by Mr Trump. So I can choose to believe them or a non partisan report from the EIGCC and the EISCC. Hmm, that's a tricky one.
Even in the microscopically small event that OAN are not full of shit (which would be a first), there is a paper trail so it can be checked.
and quite possibly the fact that so many used the mail in option, made it so secure too
and Trump told his supporters NOT to use that route
I am still a bit baffled by how the whole thing works over there, but this election had a MASSIVE number of voters, so I would assume that any 'irregularities' would be noted if they were of a substantial nature, so again, well done you America
now you just need to convince PotUS45 his time has come :o(