RE: Election machines connected to the internet
This will likely get lost in the noise, but just want to alert Anons to the many deceptions of election machines and the internet.
Contrary to popular opinion, connecting election machines to the internet is actually a GOOD idea. Our current incarnation of election machines is not good to connect to the internet, but the end-state ideal election machine is 100% connected to the internet.
Think about it - which one is more secure? An election that is audited once, at the end, when all the votes have been tallied and "sealed" and any amount of professional fuckery has already happened - OR - and election that is CONTINUOUSLY audited by a multitude of parties (even you!) and where discrepancies or "suspicious" events can be called out and pinpointed in near real time?
Obviously the latter.
CA recently made a law saying that election machines can never be connected to the internet, which made me do a double take because CA never fucking does anything that's in the interest of the people, so obviously this was bad. Had to think about it for a while, but I think they're just trying to prevent elections from ever being good.