It's a moot question. By design, no such vote would be discovered. Election officials make a point of not verifying anything or anyone; it's what they're trained to do. I've tried presenting an ID at a polling place, and embarrassed election officials (none of whom knew me) told me to put it away.
Is this something that blockchain tech could resolve? At least in regard to the voting machines. I suppose even if that's possible there would be no support for it from the "dominant" party.
After the 2020 election loss, the "Q" lunatics were sending around emails claiming that blockchain voting was coming to save the day. They were also saying that all our political enemies had already been dispatched, the folks in the media who resembled them were actually body doubles, and Trump would be installed as president by a new USA Corporation supported by the U.S. military. So first of all, I do not support the use of BitCoin even as a currency, primarily for non-technical reasons discussed here: "The Crypto Currency Fallacy": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/the-crypto-currency-fallacy. Then, in addition to the psychological reasons to avoid cryptos, my article discusses one technical flaw inherent in all blockchains, which is that they determine the validity of transactions via a democratic voting mechanism. Anyone with the resources to gain control of the majority of nodes (in the case of state elections, by injecting thousands of new low-cost nodes into the client base) can subvert the whole system by changing the voting algorithm in what is now the majority of the clients; you change their transaction-validation mechanism by modifying the published open-source blockchain code and installing the modified version on your systems. So ironically, the mechanism that would save us from voter fraud is itself a democratic voting system that is subject to voter fraud.
Additionally there is another problem with all computer-based systems that I discuss here: "You Can NEVER Trust a Voting Machine": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/you-can-never-trust-a-voting-machine. As the never-ending stream of business failures caused by hacks increases constantly and dramatically, we are realizing that there is literally no way to know what a computer is doing unless we built the hardware and wrote 100% of all the software ourselves. Even then we might have trust issues with our employees, any one of whom might subvert the system without leaving a trace. The only answer is to build completely separate parallel systems that effectively audit each other. But we don't need blockchain to build multiple parallel systems; rather we'd need the political will and a substantial investment. Unfortunately, as with all things that have even one degree of indirection or one degree of technical complexity, the general public will never grasp the issue and consequently will never support such initiatives. A population that is stupid enough to accept the absurdity of mail-in voting certainly isn't going to start demanding voting systems that could conceivably provide some degree of election integrity.
Actually, my guess is that illegal aliens here are threatened with jail time or deportation for REFUSING to participate in election fraud schemes. When the ruling party is a criminal organization, you have to turn your notion of "justice" on its head.
You don't get jail time if nobody turns you in. And if you're here illegally, you're already under constant threat of deportation or confinment. There seem to be millions of people worldwide who aren't worried about it.
I don't know why it took me so long to figure out the meaning of your comment here, but thank you. Yes I realize that I am risking jail time by publishing this article. I'm expecting the SWAT team any day now.
I wonder what the penalty is for a fraudulent vote by a citizen of Minnesota? Or if there is a penalty.
It's a moot question. By design, no such vote would be discovered. Election officials make a point of not verifying anything or anyone; it's what they're trained to do. I've tried presenting an ID at a polling place, and embarrassed election officials (none of whom knew me) told me to put it away.
Is this something that blockchain tech could resolve? At least in regard to the voting machines. I suppose even if that's possible there would be no support for it from the "dominant" party.
After the 2020 election loss, the "Q" lunatics were sending around emails claiming that blockchain voting was coming to save the day. They were also saying that all our political enemies had already been dispatched, the folks in the media who resembled them were actually body doubles, and Trump would be installed as president by a new USA Corporation supported by the U.S. military. So first of all, I do not support the use of BitCoin even as a currency, primarily for non-technical reasons discussed here: "The Crypto Currency Fallacy": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/the-crypto-currency-fallacy. Then, in addition to the psychological reasons to avoid cryptos, my article discusses one technical flaw inherent in all blockchains, which is that they determine the validity of transactions via a democratic voting mechanism. Anyone with the resources to gain control of the majority of nodes (in the case of state elections, by injecting thousands of new low-cost nodes into the client base) can subvert the whole system by changing the voting algorithm in what is now the majority of the clients; you change their transaction-validation mechanism by modifying the published open-source blockchain code and installing the modified version on your systems. So ironically, the mechanism that would save us from voter fraud is itself a democratic voting system that is subject to voter fraud.
Additionally there is another problem with all computer-based systems that I discuss here: "You Can NEVER Trust a Voting Machine": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/you-can-never-trust-a-voting-machine. As the never-ending stream of business failures caused by hacks increases constantly and dramatically, we are realizing that there is literally no way to know what a computer is doing unless we built the hardware and wrote 100% of all the software ourselves. Even then we might have trust issues with our employees, any one of whom might subvert the system without leaving a trace. The only answer is to build completely separate parallel systems that effectively audit each other. But we don't need blockchain to build multiple parallel systems; rather we'd need the political will and a substantial investment. Unfortunately, as with all things that have even one degree of indirection or one degree of technical complexity, the general public will never grasp the issue and consequently will never support such initiatives. A population that is stupid enough to accept the absurdity of mail-in voting certainly isn't going to start demanding voting systems that could conceivably provide some degree of election integrity.
Risking Jail time solitary for wrong think.
Actually, my guess is that illegal aliens here are threatened with jail time or deportation for REFUSING to participate in election fraud schemes. When the ruling party is a criminal organization, you have to turn your notion of "justice" on its head.
You don't get jail time if nobody turns you in. And if you're here illegally, you're already under constant threat of deportation or confinment. There seem to be millions of people worldwide who aren't worried about it.
Jokingly I was referring to Owen Schroeder and others skeptical of our fine vote process. 😁
I don't know why it took me so long to figure out the meaning of your comment here, but thank you. Yes I realize that I am risking jail time by publishing this article. I'm expecting the SWAT team any day now.
Another free shit State!