News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
That's really not as big a deal as it sounds.
The security of voting machines has been an issue for as long as they've been around. Bev Harris and BlackBoxVoting made a big deal about this 20 years ago, with a number of demonstrated exploits. A security model would be absolutely insane to rely on keeping all units out of the hands of bad actors. Besides, every polling location has multiple volunteers that will put hands on identical models, every single election.
Any of them could be lackeys, including locations where ALL of them are lackeys. There's remarkable little verification of loyalties. In Ohio, I could be "The Republican" for any/all actions requiring a member of both parties. The only thing I had to do (and the only thing I did) to get this designation was vote in the Republican primary. It's also true in reverse. Any of them could've easily gotten access to any of the software.
Most states have a verification process to ensure the machines function as expected, with a security and audit process around it. This usually includes running a fake election first, multiple times, and in a way that the machine cannot tell whether it's the real election or not.
Besides, Occam's Razor applies. It's not like the entire country was thrilled to be rid of him. Most polls put them in a dead heat. Then the results came in, and he outperformed his polls for the third time in a row. But he outperformed at a lower rate than both previous campaigns. Him winning wasn't exactly a surprise that no one saw coming.
The bullet ballots thing is interesting, but far from (pardon the pun) a smoking gun.