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Elections Officials Battle a Deluge of Disinformation
The New York Times | Yahoo ^ | August 12, 2024 | By Tiffany Hsu (D-NYT)

Posted on 08/12/2024 11:48:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Tate Fall is overwhelmed.

When she signed on to be director of elections in Cobb County, Georgia, last year, she knew she’d be registering voters and recruiting poll workers, maybe fixing up voting machines.

She didn’t expect the unending flood of disinformation — or at least, she wasn’t prepared for how much it would overtake her job. She has had election deniers shout at her at public meetings, fielded weekend calls from politicians panicked about a newly circulating falsehood, and even reviewed conspiracy theories circulating on Nextdoor…

Increasingly, her generation of elections officials must multitask as defenders against disinformation and its consequences. On any given day, they are debunking claims that masses of dead people are contaminating the voting pool or that mail-in balloting is susceptible to fraud. In just the past year, they have been flooded with inane demands for details about their employees, faced harassment campaigns targeted at their female family members, received intimidating letters laced with fentanyl and been subjected to fake threats of bombings and break-ins.

The stress has pushed many public servants to resign or retire.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2024; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; media; nytsedition; press; tiffanyhsu; votefraud

1 posted on 08/12/2024 11:48:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

isn’t it easy enough to combat by showing the voting rolls with no dead people on it?


2 posted on 08/12/2024 11:51:09 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks for posting an article from the corporate gaslight press.

It’s important to know what lies and projections the enemy is spreading today.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 11:55:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The stress has pushed many public servants to resign or retire

We all know what a tough job it is being a public servant, LOL! Go get a job that requires actual production/results.


4 posted on 08/12/2024 11:57:47 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Quit cheating and these things won’t happen.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 12:00:20 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its not your job to police online information, Tate. Just do your freaking job to make sure that ballots are only cast by registered US citizen voters and that they are accurately counted.


6 posted on 08/12/2024 12:03:16 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One’s person truth is another person’s disinformation. Even election officials can deny the truth, and will classify it as disinformation.

No government official should ever be tasked with deciding what is true or false, or fact or disinformation. That kind of official would be tampering with the first amendment rights of the public.


7 posted on 08/12/2024 12:03:43 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they were honest and transparent then it would be way less stressful for them


8 posted on 08/12/2024 12:07:40 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ maybe fixing up voting machines.”

Really now?
Doesn’t the vendor take care of the rented product?
What a scam we are living in. I don’t trust any “voting machine” or anyone that fixes them up, or governments that use them.


9 posted on 08/12/2024 12:09:42 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: adorno

Very well stated.

Both the partisan press and those in political office seem to freely offer their opinions of what is true and what is not. In fact, they abuse the power of their positions to enforce their beliefs.

We live in an era where self-styled liberals support censorship, and they are too stupid to see the irony.


10 posted on 08/12/2024 12:15:29 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone I disagree with is spreading disinformation.


11 posted on 08/12/2024 12:19:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks for posting this. Some pretty good comments below the article.

I’ve worked as an election official since Reagan’s second campaign. Not every year, but certainly every year in the last nine here in GA.

So here’s some things worth knowing.
In metro Atlanta, legally required chain of custody was not maintained. Absentee ballots were not properly verified, per the law. Ballot harvesting (which *WAS* legal last election [2020]) was rampant in metro Atlanta. I will agree 2000 mules had some arguable flaws, yet the video and cell phone location data were pretty damning.

Hourly and final vote counts were NOT properly performed or recorded (violation of law). Tabulator (scanner) data/vote counts were FUBAR in double digit thousand quantities (violation of law) and vote totals per scanner serial number were so wrong they easily looked manufactured after the fact.

And for the life of me and other election officials NOT in metro Atlanta, *WHY* was anyone scanning ballots after the fact???? In GA a voter marks their ballot on a screen and prints it. Then the voter carries their printed ballot to the scanner and scans it. An election worker CANNOT touch a voter’s physical ballot. (violation of law). After the polls close, part of the shut down process is that the tabulator lead/manager with two facto authentication [key fob and passcode] required, uses an interface on the tabulator to print a ‘cash register’ tape, two copies, of the election results for everything on the ballot. The manager(S) then tape one copy to the front door visible to the public. The second paper copy is turned in with the other paper reports and the one-of-two disk drives. Now the election precinct manager/tabulator lead removes one of two solid state disk drives from the scanner. Also THREE people (manager and two witnesses) take the paper ballots bin from the bottom of the scanner, close up the ballot bin, place a numbered seal on that bin [recorded #] and then drive the sealed bin(s) with the hourly totals, printed tapes, all seal #s, all provisional ballots, and the one-of-two disk drives from each tabulator to the county office. The manager must be accompanied (in the same vehicle, not lead follow) by an assistant manager to the county office where the precinct results are uploaded from the disk drive(s) to the county system. It’s common to get all this done between 60 and 120 minutes after polls close, depending on how many machines are in place. The precinct workers are responsible for documenting all the seals/ removed seals and packing up the equipment for removal and return to the county offices.

The paper ballots MUST BE RETAINED (time period varies by county and state law) as well as the data and scan image data. Same for the data on the disk drives in the machine. This allows audits pretty easily if ya retain the paper and digital records, which apparently, magically, ‘metro Atlanta’ did not do ...

Let’s just say that metro Atlanta blew right past the chain of custody/ ballot and vote integrity steps described in the prior paragraphs. The fact that the State accepted such sloppy results (and of course the county office certified them prior to giving them to the state) is mind-blowing.

A few workers got reprimands ... Much of that behavior is felonies.

Whether in on the ‘steal’ or just afraid of being labeled racist, the State accepted the results into the totals and Biden won GA, officially.

Won’t get into here, but most all of that is either easy to detect and/or illegal in the upcoming 2024 election. But we have to have legit oversight and enforcement in GA.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 12:31:09 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t they just trurn off the TV???


13 posted on 08/12/2024 12:31:43 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NYT writing an article on political disinformation. They could write the manual for it!


14 posted on 08/12/2024 12:41:33 PM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NYT writing an article on political disinformation. They could write the manual for it!


15 posted on 08/12/2024 12:41:35 PM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Blueflag

The governor of Georgia last week said he was putting the full weight of his political machine behind Trump. Was that a meaningful statement in georgia or anywhere else?


16 posted on 08/12/2024 2:28:37 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What makes it disinformation is the fact that the NYT and the democrats don’t agree with it. The situation we are in now is exactly why the framers put in the 1st Amendment - to protect the people from a dictatorial government that wants to control us through controlling speech.


17 posted on 08/12/2024 2:38:09 PM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: ckilmer

Kemp is poorly supported now by many GA Republicans. He wants another term. He has to walk the walk. We shall see.

Problem is we have open primaries. Dems put Raffensburger back in office


18 posted on 08/12/2024 2:53:55 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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