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Jarek's avatar

Hi Chris thank u for your work, i was looking for the person takin on voting from rational/systematic way. I'm also interested in mechanics of voting, but also reality of it perceptions of voters, of current issues and voting itself (best example is ID is rasist, and people swallowed it) ect. My problem is as follows, there is heavenly-voting and there is reality-of-elections. How can we transition from less secure to more secure elections, what ways to apply to do it?

Another thing is to find out is to find cheatig/mistake in campains, or at lest estimate it confidently.

Another point is that in France last elections, and France they claimed is paragon of voting sytsem, they elected Macarone again, despite yellow west protests, lockdowns, vaccme dictatorship, lots of points that u mentioned in other article of yours. People still voted for this tyran??? Why?? Are we conservatives/natural-law people have to abandoned all hope, because dum/ignorant voters are in majority and they listen to lies from d side and believe them.

Sorry i just rumbled some of my incoherent thoughts, but since Trump i was following political process and trying to understand it. Any thoughts, again thank u for your articles.

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The first step in any transition is to severely restrict mail in voting. Make it only absentee by specific request prior to an election. This would include incapacitated people since even they need to get out at least twice a year for doctor visits. For overseas military personnel you set up polling places overseas.

Now if, big IF, you can convince enough people that mail in voting is insecure no matter what, you move right to eliminating it. At the same time you make the case that if any machines are used their source code must be open source such that it can be reviewed by all sides. Ultimately I think you work toward exactly what I mention above or something very close to it. That's going to take quite a bit of doing though, especially the unique ID encrypted on each ballot.

I've been to France twice, and over there, like in much of Europe, they don't even really have a concept of what being on the right is. They buy into the absurd left wing claim that fascism is on the right, and so when they hear that Le Pen, for example, is "far right" many of them believe it and are afraid.

Does this mean that I convinced Macron won legitimately? Not at all. The problem is I don't know enough about the voting process as well as the ballot counting process in France. I understand it's a hand count, but are there safeguards to make sure the count is fully valid everywhere?? Is there full transparency at each counting location and at the location(s) where the results from all counting locations are summarized??

To even be able to start answering those questions would would need fully Conservative news sources in France that had full freedom of the press and freedom of speech. 'Le Gateway Pundit', for example. The EU's current threats against Elon Musk for daring to bring free speech to Twitter tell you that the controlling left wing there wants to keep suppressing free speech because it terrifies them. A very bad sign.

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Darius's avatar

Fantastic! Stand! Speak! Share! Teach! ONWARD---->

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