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Scheme to cast votes on stolen mail ballots thwarted by Colorado election officials.
(coloradosun.com)
Which is why we don't do vote by mail ¯_(ツ)_/¯
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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However, three ballots were counted before election officials could pull them from the process because they passed through the signature verification process. Those votes cannot be remedied or removed.
What? So the person whose ballot was stolen now has their vote cast for trump (let's be real there is a 99.99% chance it was a trumper who did this even they are being coy about it) and there is nothing they can do about it? WTF?
It could go a number of ways.
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An attempt to stuff a ballot box for their preferred candidate
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An attempt to invalidate voting by mail by conducting obvious fraud, then publicly blame vote by mail
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An attempt to vote for an opponent to claim the opposition is conducting fraud
Further down it states:
All of the voters affected by the Mesa County fraud will be offered a new ballot.
So does that mean those voters are counted twice? One fraud and one real, or...?
That's how I interpreted it, yes. The criminal(s) succeeded in getting 3 illegal votes into the count beyond retrieval. The victims of stolen ballots need not lose their votes.
They will likely revamp the process. The problem is, once the ballot is counted, the vote is separated from the voter, so there's no link to who the person was and who they voted for.
It's a process meant for privacy. That someone was able to accurately forge signatures enough to pass verification (which is handled by trained humans) is a bit on the "this was creepy/planned" side, which is likely how the outlier event happened.
America isn't there yet, but cryptographic hashes anonymizing but connecting a vote to a voter, so the vote could be anonymously recalled for an attack like this would likely be the best privacy-preserving process.
Wait, how exactly could a crypto hash connect a vote to a voter and still be anonymous...
Can identify one way, from voter to vote. If a voter for some valid reason has to re-vote, the hash-id could be used to only count the person's vote with the last timestamp.
What would you hash, though? The name? The SSN? These are all know plaintexts…
If you want to de-anonymise a vote with any of these you just make a rainbow table of all voters.
Do you add salt? But now salt becomes a secret… how does the secret is picked? Someone centrally? Back to rainbow table. Everyone picks one? Then the voters has to write the hash… at that point there is no benefit with an unique id that is not really anonymous
99% of Congress is too old to understand a word you just said... Someday it'll all be zoomers, and then maybe tech will start to help us
Maybe.
Millennials, zoomers and even gen alpha likely won't be much different. There's a difference between understanding how to use technology and understanding the intricacies of technology, understanding how to regulate or use different functions of it. The majority of boomers know how to use a modern phone. They don't know how to properly take care of the phone nor do they understand how it functions, but they know how to use it. A lot of younger people aren't much different.
Idk about that majority of boomers know how to use a modern phone. Make calls, text, play candy crush, and go on Facebook, sure but that's hardly knowing how to use it beyond surface level.
That's true, but where boomers are pig headed about it because they don't want to have admit younger people know more than them, I think millennials and zoomers would be much more willing to accept expert advice
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