Y'all ever notice how all the tankie types are eager to tell you your votes don't matter but also conservatives are above rigging elections and Trump literally bragging about Elon rigging the election shouldn't be investigated?
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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The rich are trying to achieve world domination before we collectively strip them of their excess wealth to fix wealth inequality and dethrone them.
I wish i were kidding...
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Man... Her post went from
"You can see that it appears to be a Python script that programmatically creates a series of synthetic ballot images (two pages per ballot) with random variations, then logs information about each generated image in a text file.
In essence, it’s simulating “filled-out” ballots."
to
"You basically see that this tool they built could be used to invalidate ballots in bulk.
Machines could do it during initial scanning instead of later on, or on custom metrics.
Just set the machines to count less blue ink ballots and instruct democratic areas to use blue pens.*
Either I missed something vital or she's talking out of her ass.
The point is though, even if we had 100% certifiable proof that the 2024 election was rigged with direct ties to Trump and/or Musk being responsible by giving a direct command, I honestly don't know if that would make any difference today.
I also don't know exactly what she is getting at. What are these generated ballot images being used for precisely?
It's not a great theory, and quite frankly I think getting stuck on a college project is silly when you can just make a new program with better resources but I think it goes:
1: Issue blue pens to swingable democratic regions (or whatever).
2: Have the machines set to generate a fake ballot image when it detects blue ink on the voter signature. Doesn't need to be every ballot, just enough to swing the region.
3: Print the generated ballot instead of what they voted for. I'm not sure how all machines work but my area physically prints a paper copy, do any machines just keep entirely digital records?
4: Voter is apparently unaware their choices were changed.
This presumably wouldn't work in my area any more as it prints a scannable code and your entries, but it would have worked in 2016 when it just printed the code.
I don't buy this specific chain of events, but it is an excellent demonstration of why voting machines are just a stupid fucking idea. Even if they were the most secure, unhackably hardcoded systems in existence there would always be doubts.
On the other hand, it's not like paper ballots are tamper proof themselves.
I didn't think it would take this long for stuff like this to start surfacing.
I've always maintained that the party of "every accusation is a confession" who screamed about election fraud for 4 years committed election fraud.
All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have... Fellas, I need 11,000 votes, give me a break.
We already know they're willing to commit fraud.
it was not rigged. the voters didn't like Biden Harris or the situation in Palestine along with the fact nothing major changed. We fought and voted, where are the politicians helping? And now we're here
I'm not worried about the last one. Im worried about the next ones.
Please read the post.
I looked at the python code in the repository they linked, it doesn't do anything suspicious. Unless they can come up with some better evidence. This is complete nonsense.
The bluesky OP links to a generator for "fake" ballot images - this is a test script. I generated thousands of "fake" background check applications once for a work project to test how much load the system could accommodate and if any number of likely data entry errors would break it. It's a normal practice.
The suggestion that a student working on a voting-related project is suspicious ipso facto is silly. Your professors require you to pick an interesting topic to work on, and voter fraud or election fraud have been in the news.
It wasn't at his professors request. It was at Elon Musk's, who sponsored the "hackathon".
It's one thing to do on your own and another to do for a billionaire as a presumptive job interview.
Yeah, this is just circumstantial so far. There’s enough to justify continued effort, but this is no smoking gun yet.
I wouldn’t say complete nonsense the script used for their testing does take an image of a ballot and generate replicas with random errors.
It’s not a fire but it smells a hell of a lot like smoke.
No it doesn't, the script doesn't do jack shit except run a few tests in fake test directories. Come back when you have actual evidence of fraud. We aren't Trumpster MAGA nuts who hoot at the first sign of dear leaders telling them stuff.
Edit: And maybe use a coding language next time that I'm not super familiar with.
I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don't see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.
Keep the evidence coming. Don't stop digging.
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