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Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com)
The Republican-controlled Senate has defeated a push by Democrats to set aside an additional $250 million for states to upgrade their voting systems to protect against hacking and other cyberattacks. From a report: An amendment offered by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy received 50 yes votes, 10 short of the 60 needed for approval. Leahy said securing U.S. elections and "safeguarding our democracy" is not a partisan issue. He said the Senate "must send a clear message to Russia and other foreign adversaries that tampering in our elections will not be tolerated. The president will not act. This duty has fallen to us." A similar effort was also rejected in the House.
The more illegal aliens a state has, the higher the chances are that they will get more representatives after the next census.
The summary says the money was supposed to be "to protect against hacking and other cyberattacks". So changing out machines which could have their results tampered with for ones which, for example, have a clear paper trail. My county did that this year - the old touch screens are gone, replaced by scannable paper which can be stored and audited if needed. My county is relatively affluent, so can afford to do this; it would be good to have it happen all over.
Lots of studies have found that there are vanishingly small amounts of in person voter fraud happening. The problem with some of the touch screen machines is, if there is fraud happening, it's very very hard to tell. And the fraud could be perpetrated by foreign adversaries. It's safer just to have a paper trail.
No real evidence of that, just claims.
Table-ized A.I.
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What a bizzaro quote to use.
(1) Orwell was all about the evils of fascists like okian - he took a bullet from one of okian's fellow travelers.
(2) That quote refers to state media retcon'ing history, none of these events involves rewriting history, it is about revealing more information as investigators dig deeper and deeper into the conspiracy to defraud the american people.
Sure there is. You can add up all the confirmed cases of in-person voting fraud, and use it as an estimate of how likely it is that there are millions of people committing in-person voter fraud in California.
In the 2016 election there were....4 cases. Across the entire United States. Btw, two were Trump voters, so our massive number of four cases were not exactly shifting the electoral results to one party.
That makes it really, really unlikely that there are millions of cases of in-person voter fraud in California. Especially since it would require millions of people to not talk about their crimes.
There's also the fact that public polling in California does not indicate a latent Republican majority being defrauded. And if you want to claim that's just the ebil librul media, Fox News polling shows the same.
But people like you will pay lots of money for entertainers to lie to you about voter fraud, so they're gonna keep lying to you.
The article summary would sound a little different if they also included this line from the article:
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
Actually it's why they went from constant budget deficits and service reductions to having balanced budgets and service expansions... but thanks for confirming your stupidity.
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