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I feel this is such a complicated issue I do not understand at all. One would think that republicans would take interest in why their candidates loose in the primaries, or the democrats would want to think really hard about the evidence coming from the famous close votes to control the senate or house. But, no.
I came from the computer side of things, with my criticism of voting software. For a long time I tried to talk about software. I figured early on that people were, like you described, just tuning me out. But, after I tried to change tack, and skip any technology or math, there was still no interest.
Over the years I have had many discussions and I concluded this was simply a taboo subject for those who are active in politics. However, those who are cynical, and not participating, readily see the value and truth, but see little value of the knowledge. We have no ready made audience for such discussions.
For a long time I just felt like there was something simply broken in political discussion. There is a wide disconnect between those who participate in American politics and everyone else. Its not math, its not science, its faith. We are challenging the faith of the politically active. What does that make us? Heretics.
We are heretics who speak of things that, if taken seriously, would invalidate the majority of USA elections. The truth would burn the country down. Its remarkable there is such tolerance as seen, and its just people ignoring the few who see the Emperor has no clothes.
And we will be ignored here, there, everywhere, for at least a generation or two, if not longer.
maybe… or maybe neither of us are good at communicating difficult topics to people?
i couldn’t convince anyone that the covid pandemic was coming, even though i had been tracking it since it first started growing in china and korea…
i couldn’t get my own family to stock up on toilet paper and supplies, while australia had people fighting in grocery stores…
maybe america just had it good for too long. “it won’t happen here” has been mostly true for quite a while.
one thing i’ll say is: this won’t invalidate all elections. for one, i don’t think they hacked the voting machines before this one, but also people have been cheating in elections ever since Athens… it’s the nature of humans and power.
i just think that due to voting machine hacks, no election has been stolen on this scale before.
every hacker, computer security person, or just programmer has said that voting machines are crazy, but people just won’t listen.
there’s testimony of a lead developer claiming he was asked to write a program to manipulate votes during george w bush’s election… he explained how easy he could’ve done it, but he blew the whistle instead…. nothing came of it.
for one, politicians don’t like to talk about technical things they don’t understand, because then they can be shown to be fools….
i don’t know, all i can do is speculate.
but i do know for sure that the data of the last election proves it was hacked. there’s an algorithm… it’s clearly in the stats….
but we need some nice infographics, some nice, short and sweet, animated videos… an hour long youtube video with a statistician talking over graphs isn’t going to work.
the simplest impossibility is: they won every single swing state with just enough votes no not trigger an automatic recount… flipped 88 counties and harris flipped zero….
with trump behind in every poll…
it’s impossible…
also a weird coincidence that 88 is a neo-nazi symbol (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet -> heil asshole), no conclusions their but they do like their symbolism….
but there’s other glaring evidence. people voting differently if they have odd or even numbered birth years is a huge one… that is absolutely the work of a shitty programmer… probably using pseudorandom number generators wrong….
but it needs to be packaged nicely….
simple enough to be understood, but not so simple that it’s just five posters with big bold words on it.
I don’t think its a communication problem, I thought that about myself for a few years and finally worked through it. Deaf ears cannot hear. Supporting my contention, is that I have seen people try to improve methods for counting ballots in the USA, and invariably, they give up after shouting to the void after a few years, usually less than five.
Some movements, like getting Virginia to use paper ballots, are rare victories, and are invariably regional in scope.
So, temporarily ignoring who is doing what in cheating, and how prevalent it is, and for how long it has been happening ( I have been against Texas electronic voting enabling cheating for the past generation, and its not hacking, but that is my own starting point into this).
I think anyone who understands the overall issue can agree that the average political participate, or spectator, in the USA, has absolutely no concept of democracy, and is basically an interesting study in psychology. Because, it takes mental gymnastics to overlook exit polls being off, and to just trust whatever process is going on, which they are neither interested in, or curious about. And yet be so hyped up about how many people vote, and for who. Its just a contradiction on so many levels.
For me, its been a singularly frustrating experience. Because I have one foot in the camp of people who do not care, and one foot in the camp of people who do care. I think that is what makes people like me rare.
I feel this is such a complicated issue I do not understand at all. One would think that republicans would take interest in why their candidates loose in the primaries, or the democrats would want to think really hard about the evidence coming from the famous close votes to control the senate or house. But, no.
I came from the computer side of things, with my criticism of voting software. For a long time I tried to talk about software. I figured early on that people were, like you described, just tuning me out. But, after I tried to change tack, and skip any technology or math, there was still no interest.
Over the years I have had many discussions and I concluded this was simply a taboo subject for those who are active in politics. However, those who are cynical, and not participating, readily see the value and truth, but see little value of the knowledge. We have no ready made audience for such discussions.
For a long time I just felt like there was something simply broken in political discussion. There is a wide disconnect between those who participate in American politics and everyone else. Its not math, its not science, its faith. We are challenging the faith of the politically active. What does that make us? Heretics.
We are heretics who speak of things that, if taken seriously, would invalidate the majority of USA elections. The truth would burn the country down. Its remarkable there is such tolerance as seen, and its just people ignoring the few who see the Emperor has no clothes.
And we will be ignored here, there, everywhere, for at least a generation or two, if not longer.
maybe… or maybe neither of us are good at communicating difficult topics to people?
i couldn’t convince anyone that the covid pandemic was coming, even though i had been tracking it since it first started growing in china and korea…
i couldn’t get my own family to stock up on toilet paper and supplies, while australia had people fighting in grocery stores…
maybe america just had it good for too long. “it won’t happen here” has been mostly true for quite a while.
one thing i’ll say is: this won’t invalidate all elections. for one, i don’t think they hacked the voting machines before this one, but also people have been cheating in elections ever since Athens… it’s the nature of humans and power.
i just think that due to voting machine hacks, no election has been stolen on this scale before.
every hacker, computer security person, or just programmer has said that voting machines are crazy, but people just won’t listen.
there’s testimony of a lead developer claiming he was asked to write a program to manipulate votes during george w bush’s election… he explained how easy he could’ve done it, but he blew the whistle instead…. nothing came of it.
for one, politicians don’t like to talk about technical things they don’t understand, because then they can be shown to be fools….
i don’t know, all i can do is speculate.
but i do know for sure that the data of the last election proves it was hacked. there’s an algorithm… it’s clearly in the stats….
but we need some nice infographics, some nice, short and sweet, animated videos… an hour long youtube video with a statistician talking over graphs isn’t going to work.
the simplest impossibility is: they won every single swing state with just enough votes no not trigger an automatic recount… flipped 88 counties and harris flipped zero….
with trump behind in every poll…
it’s impossible…
also a weird coincidence that 88 is a neo-nazi symbol (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet -> heil asshole), no conclusions their but they do like their symbolism….
but there’s other glaring evidence. people voting differently if they have odd or even numbered birth years is a huge one… that is absolutely the work of a shitty programmer… probably using pseudorandom number generators wrong….
but it needs to be packaged nicely….
simple enough to be understood, but not so simple that it’s just five posters with big bold words on it.
I don’t think its a communication problem, I thought that about myself for a few years and finally worked through it. Deaf ears cannot hear. Supporting my contention, is that I have seen people try to improve methods for counting ballots in the USA, and invariably, they give up after shouting to the void after a few years, usually less than five.
Some movements, like getting Virginia to use paper ballots, are rare victories, and are invariably regional in scope.
So, temporarily ignoring who is doing what in cheating, and how prevalent it is, and for how long it has been happening ( I have been against Texas electronic voting enabling cheating for the past generation, and its not hacking, but that is my own starting point into this).
I think anyone who understands the overall issue can agree that the average political participate, or spectator, in the USA, has absolutely no concept of democracy, and is basically an interesting study in psychology. Because, it takes mental gymnastics to overlook exit polls being off, and to just trust whatever process is going on, which they are neither interested in, or curious about. And yet be so hyped up about how many people vote, and for who. Its just a contradiction on so many levels.
For me, its been a singularly frustrating experience. Because I have one foot in the camp of people who do not care, and one foot in the camp of people who do care. I think that is what makes people like me rare.