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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (194805)	2/25/2021 12:25:36 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 355188

Oh, wow, I see it all now! It must be true! The election was stolen! No one could say something so inane if it wasn't true! Could they?

To: i-node who wrote (194805)	2/25/2021 12:31:24 PM
From: Wharf Rat	5 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 CentralParkRanger combjelly Dracin72 Sam Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355188

"not one of you here understands and believes that anything wrong was done" There was a lot wrong. Trump began claiming it was rigged for months, or even going back to '16. Then Louie Delay slowed the mail down. Then Trump supporters tried to stop the counting of votes. Then Trump refused to concede. Then he told his supporters to fight at the Capitol. "I'm sorry that so many were off track for so long on how it was stolen" It wasn't stolen.Trump was defeated in a landslide. "I don't know where we'd be without Fox asking real, actual questions" We prolly wouldn't be laughing at them being sued for libel, along with Rudy, The Kraken, and Pillowman.

To: i-node who wrote (194805)	2/25/2021 12:35:35 PM
From: Thomas M.	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 355188

Tom

To: i-node who wrote (194805)	2/25/2021 2:56:40 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Recommended By combjelly John Koligman Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355188

The cost to secure the election need not be high, unless it is under attack as it was in Mar-Nov of last year. Back to the Texas grid. You decide how much risk you want to take. Do you invest in upgraded equipment that will handle zero temperatures in Texas, a remote event? Do you invest a lot in infrastructure against the risk that some president will be such a sore loser and so narcissistic that he will try to bring down the government rather than acknowledge defeat? After all, that's something that no one ever expected to happen. More likely that Texas will freeze over. To have the kind of transparency your distrust demands you'd have to, for example, have three people handling each ballot by hand and agreeing on signature match or voter's choice, signing and copying and backing up the agreed upon ballot. And you'd have to do it for every election because you could never know in advance when a candidate will dispute normal results from an appropriately secure system as happened this time. The public has not been prepared to pay to even set up sufficient polling places so voters don't have to wait in line for hours. They're certainly not going to pay for a level of security you demand and do so on the off chance that a once multi century risk presents itself. It's not cost effective to design systems to the standards of paranoids. The best way to prepare for such a wild risk is to not elect a nut-job in the first place. Then reasonable people can operate successfully with a reasonably secured system.