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floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Dominion Voting Systems Sold to GOP Firm — Right After Settling Defamation Suits vs. OANN, Giuliani, Powell

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Dominion Voting Systems has been purchased by Liberty Vote, a firm headed by a former GOP election official with ties to a staunch ally of President Donald Trump -- just weeks after Dominion settled several defamation lawsuits it filed in the wake of the 2020 election.
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  • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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    Anyone who believes the US will see another legitimate democratic election is fooling themselves.

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      That’s what I’ve been saying since the election

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        That’s been the truth for at least as long as i’ve been alive.

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      Relevant: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited

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    Why the fuck is a private company even involved in our elections to begin with?

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      American ingenuity, it’s not corruption when a private company does it for political favors!

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      What do you want the government to pay people to do stuff that benefits the population? When a private sector can remove all the guardrails and outsource labor, ludicrous.

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    And now that the shithead cheaters OWN THE VOTING MACHINES I’m sure they will suddenly be saying they’re the most trustworthy things ever.

    Reminder: check your voting results frequently when you vote next

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    Well fuck.

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      I believe those were the same words uttered by half of Americans who chose not to vote last time round.

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      I don’t like it either. But …

      Third-Party Auditing: Incorporating rigorous, industry-leading third-party auditing standards to verify election integrity at every step."

      … does sound like a good step. Give NPR/researchers access and only run audited code. It’s what we’d ask of Republicans if Democrats owned the company.

      I’d still prefer open source.

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        They’re not talking third-party as in political party. Third-party just references an outside individual or group they don’t directly control. The third-party auditor won’t be an independent third-party. It will 100% be a GOP-aligned group.

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          Can’t wait for it to be a totally neutral and moral company not named after Lord of the Rings Lore like Palantir or Anduril

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          Ugh. Damn.

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          It doesn’t even need to be “aligned”. I remember the savings and loan debacle.

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        And hand-marked paper ballots. I don’t trust the electronic voting machines.

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    The new owner, Scott Leiendecker — a former Republican election director from St. Louis and founder of the tech company KNOWiNK — says his goal is to rebuild confidence in America’s voting process through transparency and paper-based security.

    Thank goodness.

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      Is that paper 100% untouched by machines? Is it manually counted by multiple people of opposing parties?

      If no to either, then it’s untrustworthy.

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        Actually votes already are even under the current system

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          Moreso now

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