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What about the starling machines
I couldn't find anything about voting machines named Starling. There is a StarLink theory. The problem is that seems to be based on a TikTok video that was incoherent by most reports, and is no longer up.
I get that moneyed interests could get evidence removed from a centralized social media service. But nothing in the transcript I've found describes a specific link from StarLink to voting machines. In fact it sounds like the person just described the basics of TCP/IP in a roundabout way to make it sound sinister. The problem is election systems are air gapped with the exception of a few highly controlled access points. Situations where that's been compromised, (such as allowing remote work from home for election office workers) have made the news for precisely the reason that it's rare. And the most credible criticism of election security is that the election office's computers could be compromised and used to spread malware to machines. But that's an inherent weakness. If the office can't access the results, they can't report them.
Furthermore, there's nothing special about StarLink that would make them a better access route. They aren't close enough to intercept the unofficial results as a false cellphone tower, (and that wouldn't change the official results later anyways), and any traffic going through them to attack election systems would also have to travel through modems on the ground, controlled by election officials. So destroying the satellite does nothing for covering your tracks. If you believe they can erase all traces of their traffic, then there's no need to destroy a satellite as surely that would be even easier on a satellite controlled by a close ally.
At the end of the day, with what we know right now, the fuck up was with the Democrat's messaging. Not anything to do with election security.
the only two significant things i've heard, one is pretty much confirmed.
republicans had access illegally to source code for dominion voting machines (we know this because people were charged over it) this is also the contents of the "letter to VP harris" thing that was released a minute ago. Though it doesn't claim fraud or anything of the nature, just calls for a recount, and establishing that no foul play happened.
The second, and one i haven't dug into at all, so take this at face value, is that apparently, there may have been a very large number of "bullet ballots" or ballots just voting for trump, in AZ i think. I don't know the status of this one. Even if it's true, it doesn't explicitly mean voter fraud happened. It may be a tad bit suspect though.
Those are the only two theories i've heard that have weight, granted i'm not following election conspiracies, because i'm a normal sane person.
Realistically the most likely "fraud" was elon musk buying twitter.