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Technology Approaches to Enhancing Election Security
Vanity | 12/14/2020 | Warthog

Posted on 12/13/2020 6:16:25 AM PST by Wonder Warthog

Imagine:

Blank ballot paper pre-printed over the entire surface with “Q” codes in permanent inks not visible to the naked eye, and then provided to all states ONLY from the Federal Election Comission to state election offices.

States then use that paper to print the “human readable” ballot in permanent black ink.

Those ballots are then “read” by optical scanners also provided ONLY by the FEC and whose software source code and construction specs are publicly available to all citizens interested.

Those optical scanners then retain all scanned ballots in locked compartments, whose keys are also issued to state elections offices by the FEC......ONLY AFTER THE ELECTION.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: election; security; technology
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1 posted on 12/13/2020 6:16:25 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

No political party wants this.


2 posted on 12/13/2020 6:20:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Any attempt to apply a technological solution to an operational problem will fail. The problem is the corruption, and technology can’t fix that. Technology can only further conceal it.

Just my valueless opinion.


3 posted on 12/13/2020 6:23:02 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Why bother? Election fraud is exceedingly rare.


4 posted on 12/13/2020 6:23:16 AM PST by KKDucMan
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To: Wonder Warthog

why not use an isotopic variant undetectable
for uniqueness, hidden along with a second
hidden internal RFID to follow the movements,
hiding, and destruction of “INCONVENIENT” real ballots.


5 posted on 12/13/2020 6:25:37 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: ClearCase_guy
"No political party wants this."

Good tool for accurately identifying those who do and do not want corrupt elections (although we already have an idea already).

6 posted on 12/13/2020 6:25:58 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

It is not who controls the ballots. It is who counts the votes. Secure paper won’t stop corrupt election officials from adding 500,000 votes for the leftist candidate.


7 posted on 12/13/2020 6:26:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Most times I vote, the number of voters in my precinct are in the low hundreds to low thousands.

Count by hand, have someone else verify the count and report it. Done.


8 posted on 12/13/2020 6:26:33 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Samurai_Jack
"Any attempt to apply a technological solution to an operational problem will fail."

Sure...any system can be hacked at "some" level. But the problem can be treated like a "limit" in math. The idea is to make the possibilities as small as possible.

9 posted on 12/13/2020 6:27:57 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. I still understand why people don’t see this. The Democrats can cheat now in any and all elections and the precedent has been established that the cheating cannot be questioned. They win. As a fig leaf, they may decide not to win every time, but that’s their choice. Elections now are an illusion. Who has standing to say otherwise?


10 posted on 12/13/2020 6:29:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: MtnClimber
"Secure paper won’t stop corrupt election officials from adding 500,000 votes for the leftist candidate."

FEC sends only the number of ballots as a state has registered voters. The "Q" codes can be printed so that those ballots are state (and year) specific. True...the problem cannot be fully eliminated, but can be minimized.

11 posted on 12/13/2020 6:30:28 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

the idea is to make Ballot Counterfeiting OBVIOUS
as salient Evidence.

There are already VIDEOS,
and with clearly marked identified
ballots (like money is) corroborating the
ELECTION THEFT by DNC-[F], heads should roll.


12 posted on 12/13/2020 6:30:50 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: Wonder Warthog

Optical scanners must only count in whole numbers and be blocked from the use of fractional numbers.


13 posted on 12/13/2020 6:31:16 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: Samurai_Jack

The solution is simple. Voting will be by text. Each voter must register and do so with a valid ID and a discrete phone number.

The precedent is firmly established with millions of votes by phone to American Idol.

American women live on their phones. They purchases houses and autos on their phones with very complex financial details easily accomplished. Why then can’t they have the convenience of voting by text


14 posted on 12/13/2020 6:32:23 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: WellyP
"Optical scanners must only count in whole numbers and be blocked from the use of fractional numbers."

Which is addressed by having the machines available ONLY from the FEC, and having software source code and hardware schematics publicly available.

15 posted on 12/13/2020 6:33:16 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“Technology Approaches to Enhancing Election Security”

Dominion will get the contract.


16 posted on 12/13/2020 6:34:33 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Samurai_Jack

“Technology can only further conceal it.”

The Devil is in the details.


17 posted on 12/13/2020 6:34:41 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: All

If America did the bare minimum of voting security that plenty of other civilized countries do we wouldn’t be in this mess. No need to get fancy. Voter ID (either a license or the city hall can provide a free photo ID for people) , no mail in ballots and paper ballots only.
Since both parties don’t want this I can only assume they both cheat.


18 posted on 12/13/2020 6:36:32 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: Wonder Warthog
"States then use that paper to print an extra 100k the “human readable” ballots in permanent black ink."
19 posted on 12/13/2020 6:41:48 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Wonder Warthog
FEC sends only the number of ballots as a state has registered voters.

And if there is corruption the DOJ and courts will hold the guilty accountable and correct the fraud?

20 posted on 12/13/2020 6:42:50 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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