Why don't they just release it and call it wrong or gay or woke whatever. It's worked for everything else, why bother trying to hide facts now when they can just tell their base to ignore it?

Oh, a White House "study"? I'm sure that will be well sourced and follow a strict scientific approach. 🙄

I can't imagine why they wouldn't release it though. Clearly not because they're concerned about voter confidence since it's practically Trump's platform that our elections are rigged. These assholes parrot 2,000 mules bs still.

Hmm, somebody could leak that report. Calling somebody, it's time.

The Netherlands has a population of about 18m, which is more than any but the four most populous States in America.

Every election here in NL, federal to local, is pure paper ballots and managed by volunteers. And our voter turnout is nearly 20% more than that in America.

I don't see a problem with paper (unless you are FL then whatever.)

And that's why electronic voting will never work.

As if I have any confidence left in the voters

The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Just one more reason why Bill Pulte has been pushed into this position as "acting" DNI by Trump past unusually strong bipartisan opposition, to the point of canceling the nomination hearing for the real candidate.

This office is really what people should be paying attention to in the coming months, because it's all about the midterms.

For those who are unaware, Bill Pulte is a MAGA loyalist that goes after Trump opponents, and has ZERO knowledge of or experience in national security. As the head of Federal Housing Finance Agency, he is the guy who has been accusing those legitimately investigating Trump (Letitia James, Adam Schiff, etc) of unsubstantiated mortgage fraud.

Expect him to do the same with the ODNI.

When Tulsi Gabbard resigned (or was fired, who knows) another candidate to replace her as DNI was put forward, the Rs and the Ds agreed on him for the most part, and that confirmation hearing was supposed to have happened on Wednesday. It did not. It was canceled at the last second by Trump, allowing Pulte to become "acting" DNI.

While an "acting" DNI has time limits on how long they can "act" without confirmation, that legal end to the "acting" role of DNI comes after the midterms, so this essentially puts Trump's personal bully in the office for the duration of the election season.

Even the Republicans don't want Pulte, and with the Dems they also refused to renew a part of FISA in objection, because the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has access to all the surveillance tools and output this country ever got its hands on.

The consensus is that Bill Pulte is being chosen as DNI for the sole reason of being able to leverage that surveillance against non-favored candidates in the midterms.

Think about that for a hot second. All the surveillance powers of the Five Eyes leveraged against US political candidates that the orange administration doesn't like.

And now we see there's actually a second reason for Pulte's installation: to suppress facts gathered about our voting machines.

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Alternative to Fox.

Electronics are superior to paper for many tasks but voting for your share of representation in government ain't one of them. Without indentifying who voted for who (red flag) and verifying it then you can only hope the software was counting properly at run time and not subverted. You can watch people miscount paper in real-time and call them out.

“Report says Republicans won the midterms 5 months from now”

“Supreme Court rules Republicans win midterms before vote starts”

The key thing for elections is that all counts ought to be auditable and verifiable. It doesn't matter whether the count is done by humans or electronically. Enough information from each individual vote must be preserved so that counts can be verified, during the legal window for races to be confirmed.

I am old enough that when I first started voting, we used lever machines. You pushed a lever for your choice in each race, then you pushed a big lever, which "recorded" your choice and resets all levers for the next person. But, it recorded your choice on manual dials that showed the vote total. Sometimes, the dial has issues rolling over from "9" to "10", or "9999" to "10000". If your vote got swallowed by the mechanical dial, it's gone! There was no remedy. At the end of the election, the poll workers reported the counts off the dials. If they needed a recount, they looked at the dials and said "Yup, that's the count".

Today, I vote on a paper ballot, which gets fed into a machine. I can see right away if my vote is accepted -- if it is not, I can get a new ballot and try again. All those paper ballots are retained so if there is a recount, they can either be run again or physically inspected by hand. It is much better tha it used to be.

Just Fox News helping plant the idea of a stolen election again.

How hard are paper ballots? While sure Canada has a much smaller population our Federal elections are all paper. I guess it's only a problem when you get rid of the staff and don't actually want democracy.

What is Trump hiding?

Anyone else getting paywalled on this article?

The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting ‌machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said.

Are voting machines connected to the internet???

I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn't you just run the machines disconnected for max security?

I think with an admin that could be vindicated with a release of this study NOT releasing it tells you all you need to know.

The study likely doesn't conclude what they've been harping for years.

waiting for the results to see if they want to say they have issues or not.

Why, are we working on the final touches as to how it can be rigged?

They want to release it a week or so before the election, then use that as an excuse for draconian voter suppression measures, leaving no time to appeal.

Someone needs to FOIA that stuff ASAP.

Funfact: Republicans bought Dominion Voting and renamed it to Liberty Votes. Dominion Voting was previously the voting machine provider for U.S. voting - even as States have their own maintenance team (as is my understanding).

of course.

It says nothing was wrong, the overwhelming majority of attempts to cheat the system have been caught, and are from republicans.

So they're gonna suppress it until just before the election, where they'll release some bullshit blaming liberals and illegals, so theres just enough time to enflame the idiots without having the time think about how stupid it is and listen to the debunking

Because he’s gonna call on his old pal Elon to help out again.

Paper ballots are good you dumb motherfuckers. Fully electronic voting can be rigged with 0 evidence. Fucking one firmware patch that self deletes after polls close is literally all it takes on multiple models from multiple manufacturers who are mostly owned by billionaires now.

FUCK! 🤬 democrats can't even be pissed off at the right part of this.

paywall bullshit

My state uses paper scantron ballets. Easy for machines to count and easy paper trail if needed to count by hand. Why is this not the way.

The only way to prevent all those issues with voting machines is to get rid of them.

There is no way that a voting machine fulfills the demands for a fair, secret, democratic, tamper-resistant vote. It is basically mathematically impossible to perform a proper democratic vote on a machine.

ODNI briefed the White House for six months without authorization to publish the report, two sources said

The report says many states use outdated systems, three sources said

All sources said they knew of no evidence of vote manipulation in US elections

Nawww, did the results not go your way?

Cause it doesn't help their case of lying about voter fraud?