• earphone843@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    I didn’t think it would take this long for stuff like this to start surfacing.

    I’ve always maintained that the party of “every accusation is a confession” who screamed about election fraud for 4 years committed election fraud.

    • All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have… Fellas, I need 11,000 votes, give me a break.

      We already know they’re willing to commit fraud.

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    I looked at the python code in the repository they linked, it doesn’t do anything suspicious. Unless they can come up with some better evidence. This is complete nonsense.

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      The bluesky OP links to a generator for “fake” ballot images - this is a test script. I generated thousands of “fake” background check applications once for a work project to test how much load the system could accommodate and if any number of likely data entry errors would break it. It’s a normal practice.

      The suggestion that a student working on a voting-related project is suspicious ipso facto is silly. Your professors require you to pick an interesting topic to work on, and voter fraud or election fraud have been in the news.

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        It wasn’t at his professors request. It was at Elon Musk’s, who sponsored the “hackathon”.

        It’s one thing to do on your own and another to do for a billionaire as a presumptive job interview.

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      Yeah, this is just circumstantial so far. There’s enough to justify continued effort, but this is no smoking gun yet.

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      I wouldn’t say complete nonsense the script used for their testing does take an image of a ballot and generate replicas with random errors.

      It’s not a fire but it smells a hell of a lot like smoke.

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        No it doesn’t, the script doesn’t do jack shit except run a few tests in fake test directories. Come back when you have actual evidence of fraud. We aren’t Trumpster MAGA nuts who hoot at the first sign of dear leaders telling them stuff.

        Edit: And maybe use a coding language next time that I’m not super familiar with.

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          I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don’t see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.

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    Man… Her post went from

    "You can see that it appears to be a Python script that programmatically creates a series of synthetic ballot images (two pages per ballot) with random variations, then logs information about each generated image in a text file.

    In essence, it’s simulating “filled-out” ballots."

    to

    "You basically see that this tool they built could be used to invalidate ballots in bulk.

    Machines could do it during initial scanning instead of later on, or on custom metrics.

    Just set the machines to count less blue ink ballots and instruct democratic areas to use blue pens.*

    Either I missed something vital or she’s talking out of her ass.

    The point is though, even if we had 100% certifiable proof that the 2024 election was rigged with direct ties to Trump and/or Musk being responsible by giving a direct command, I honestly don’t know if that would make any difference today.

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      I also don’t know exactly what she is getting at. What are these generated ballot images being used for precisely?

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    The entire country shifted red. They would’ve had to implement this system in all 50 states, even ones that didn’t matter, and across 50 different voting systems, many of which are entirely paper-based, and not leave a single scrap of evidence. Individual ballots are secret, but lots of other records are not, including who did and did not vote in each precinct, and how many ballots were cast for each candidate, so if they were just injecting lots of fake ballots, the numbers wouldn’t add up. The simple fact is, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and neither was the 2024 one.

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    this sort of could be verified using the paper ballots pretty easily, or by checking vote monitor polls and exit polls vs the final results. things like voter turnout vs reported vote, etc, there are a lot of ways to audit this. always fine to audit but i doubt there’s much to this.

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    it was not rigged. the voters didn’t like Biden Harris or the situation in Palestine along with the fact nothing major changed. We fought and voted, where are the politicians helping? And now we’re here

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    The rich are trying to achieve world domination before we collectively strip them of their excess wealth to fix wealth inequality and dethrone them.

    I wish i were kidding…

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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    Man I knew bluemaga would follow the maga pipeline pretty strictly but its still weird seeing it come about.

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      “Left”-maga succeeded though. Palestinians won’t even be allowed to return home so you got mostly what you wanted. Unfortunately for you, some will survive.

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        You really are just in the maga pipeline. I hope you get better soon before a gay black woman leads you further into fascism and you celebrate it.

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            Yes, my principles to get the Dems to complete abandon the working class and call them a basket of deplorables and tell them they’re lying to themselves about not being able to find a job, afford food, or afford rent.

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                It’s extremely ghoulish how BlueMAGA pretends that, just because my ignored the level of genocide happening under Biden, it didn’t actually happen.

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                Are you still trying to argue there’s more genocide now than under Biden?

                You have to be smart enough to realize that’s not an argument and is an undefendable position.

                Or not, I guess. Sorry not sorry white people are now getting affected.

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                  You’re commenting on an article about trump making things worse in Gaza, just like we all told you would happen.

                  Interesting that somehow race comes into the conversation here. Interesting indeed.