General Discussion

I'm having a hard time believing Trump fairly won all the swing states when Harris's campaign was raising so much more money and enthusiasm, that people like Allan Lichtman and Ann Selzer who have nearly perfect track records got it so wrong. That the things Trump said about 'not needing votes' meant nothing, etc, etc. I'm also having a hard time with Democratic leadership not putting up any sort of fight or inquiry or anything, given things like multiple bomb threats from Russia, missing mail-in ballots, etc etc. I don't get people supposedly on our side who are very very quick to shut down any questions over the results and whether there may have been fvckery (the operative word being may)

"In our report, we raised concerns about a number of potential vulnerabilities that remain in our election infrastructure. Voting systems are outdated, and many of them do not have a paper record of votes. Without a paper record, there is no way to reliably audit a vote tally and confirm that numbers haven’t been changed. We found that thirty states use paperless voting machines in some jurisdictions, and that five states use them exclusively, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation that cannot be reconciled and reversed. We also found that many of our election systems are connected to the internet, leaving them open to hacking. Even systems not regularly connected to the internet are nevertheless updated by software that must be downloaded from the internet. It’s misleading to suggest that impenetrable cybersecurity is possible; our focus must be on defending against, detecting, deterring, managing, and mitigating any effort to do us harm. There’s a grim joke: What’s the difference between being hacked and not being hacked? Knowing you’ve been hacked. The truth hurts—but we simply can’t afford to be naive."

- excerpt from The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris