A Simple Solution To Voting Machines
Easy solutions - with Republicans - are almost impossible
Can voting machines be rigged?
The answer is any electronic device using software can be manipulated - so the voter integrity types face a hard choice. Either hand count ballots - some with 50 offices and Propositions on them - or use machines.
Machines will always win because most of the people “proving” there is voter fraud in election tabulators have long ago positioned themselves with the crazies. Even if they are correct, nobody in the mainstream cares.
Voting machines are here to stay.
So what to do?
There is nothing complex about a voting machine - or there shouldn’t be.
A voting machine - all the machines which form a network to cast a ballot, count it, send an image here and there - is no more complicated than a cash register.
There should be nothing more complicated than an adding machine in voter equipment.
We read the preposterous claims of voter machine firms that they had serious IP (intellectual property) in those babies so nobody could ever see the software.
Look, we are the guys currently advising some of the top U.S. tech companies on how to manage 100,000 drones as if they were a flock of birds - so when it comes to technology we run with the big boys.
We are in the process of destroying the valuations of several of them.
Voting machines are simple machines and there is absolutely no reason to protect their software from prying eyes. There is, in fact, a very compelling set of reasons to make that software public all the time.
Why not implement a very simple solution - that solves this problem once and for all?
Have the Federal Government fund the creation of a standard voting machine - that runs on current UNIX or Windows hardware, using software which is public?
This isn’t hard.
Nor is it expensive.
To build a state-of-the-art software application to run on current hardware could be done for less than a million dollars. Much less.
Since it’s the government, and they are always over charged, it may get to $3 million or so. But it’s not REAL MONEY - like the amount of money given to Leftist NGOs every year to interfere in honest elections.
The Government can go to current vendors like cash register companies, computer companies - and have them build out the needed software.
If they have any trouble finding someone who can do it for less than a couple of million bucks, give us a call and we will find someone to do it.
This is low level software and there are currently many voter machine processes in the public domain so knowing what it is supposed to look like is no big deal.
Then the Feds make it either mandatory or free or lock up Federal funds if states don’t comply - and give out the damn machines.
The software is 100% public - so the crazies on Twitter/X chasing every conspiracy can see it and while they will claim there are aliens in the machines, real technical communities will insure that the software is not malicious.
The solution to this nonsense about voting machines is to make them free, software public, used by states for all Federal elections - and put the companies out of business who say they have IP critical to their industry dominance.
This modest proposal is unlikely to get traction - because there are way too many people invested in election fraud - which can be stopped - but they don’t want it stopped.
Voter integrity orgs fight anything that effectively stops election fraud - like comparing voter rolls with property tax rolls to find voters living in buildings without bedrooms.
They endlessly chase voter IDs, cleaning voter rolls and of course, paper ballots - because these raise donor money and never solve the problem.
Perfect fit.
The voting machine companies will be royally pissed off, but who cares? They are tiny companies with crap technology anybody can recreate.
The politicos will never buy in because they are invested in the narrative that all voting machine claims are crazy - so this would constitute chasing a crazy proposition.
That leaves us where we are - voting machines can be manipulated and if their software is NOT public, the crazies will assert the worst.
Elections won by less than 1% will continue to be called fraudulent by the losing side.
Paper ballots remain a non-starter - but nut cases will push them on Twitter/X forever because that’s what they do.
Simple solutions are almost impossible to implement - because their adoption threatens those whose identity is tied to current fraud claims.
That said, we thought we would put it out there so people understand voting machines are just low level cash registers - anyone with some software background can build one - and if the Government just does it the problem will pass.
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