11-29-2020, 03:35 PM
(11-29-2020, 10:55 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 29-Nov-2020 World View: Scandal TV, vote rigging and Dominion Software
From e-mail:
Quote:> Was thinking of you as I hear reports of voting
> software irregularities. You often have referred to the
> combination of Boomer managers allowing GenX/Millenial
> mayhem. Morality goes out the window.
> At defendingtherepublic.org there are links to two lawsuit filings
> by attorney Sidney Powell. (Each about 140 pages long).
> Would love to hear your Technical analysis - perhaps via
> generational dynamics.
> The charges seem so fantastic that I am not sure what to make of
> them.
I haven't read the filings, but based on televised reports that I've
seen, the Dominion Software has holes, and it would have been possible
within the Dominion Software system for the Democrats to change votes
from one candidate to another, if they wanted to.
In fact, I saw an interview on tv with the president of Dominion
Software where he was asked whether the software could be used to
change votes, and he gave a weasel-worded answer. So if I needed
convincing, that convinced me. So I'm certain that the Democrats
could have used the Dominion software to rig the election, if they had
chosen to do so. And since the Democrats and mainstream media have
committed fraud every day since Trump took office, there's no doubt in
my mind that they did choose to do so, and that Democrats did use
Dominion software to change votes. Whether that was enough to flip
the election is unknown, but that information may come out in
investigations over the next few months.
It's almost certainly too late to change the election outcome, but as
I understand it, Trump's legal strategy now is to continue bringing
court cases, in order to get the Dominion situation into a court over
the next few months, so that the rigged election can reach some kind
of court verdict, at least to make sure that the Democrats won't be
able to rig the 2022 election as well. In one scenario, Dominion
Software sues Trump to protect its brand, and that will force all the
evidence to be presented in course.
Highly unlikely.
Misrepresentation of the vote is most likely to result from a machine error and not a design. Most states have mandated controls that would detect a loss of votes (for example, a number of voters comprising all who came to vote and all ballots accepted is counted, and if there is some significant difference, then something has gone very wrong. This makes stuffing the ballot box (or its current equivalent) or losing votes unlikely without detection even if it is strictly a machine error. If 5000 people voted and there are 4000 or 6000 votes, then something is terribly amiss.
Add to this, electoral fraud by administrators is very bad for one's career. Voter fraud is rare because it cannot materially affect the results of an election and it can result in serious prison time. Electoral fraud by local government employees means a police investigation and felony charges if substance appears. Employees of local government have good, well-paying jobs protected from partisan pressures.
The scariest situation that I can imagine is inversion of the results. Suppose that a precinct (name changed to protect the innocent), "Klan Hollow, Arkansas"* gets results of 122 for Biden and 7 for Trump, which is the opposite of what one would expect.
Quote:It's true that the charges seem fantastic. But think that a year ago
it would have been thought fantastic that Twitter, Facebook and Google
had become Gods that could control everything we read, everything we
say, and everything we think, and that's come true too. Misusing vote
counting software to rig an election is not nearly as fantastic as
some other things that I've seen as a senior software engineer for the
last few decades. In fact, my guess is that the Dominion Software
vote count would be trivial to change by a knowledgeable systems
software engineer who knows more about software development than just
how to put up a web page.
I recognize no authority in "Facebook", "Twitter", or "Google" as a source of news.
Quote:***
*** Scandal TV series and Defiance Ohio vote rigging
***
Starting in the 1990s, I began recording prime time tv shows that I
didn't have time to watch, so I could watch them later. This has
turned into something of a monster, as I'm now over four years behind
on watching them. But I enjoy watching them, as opposed to
subscribing to Netflix or something.
So anyway, yesterday I started watching Scandal episode S06E10 (The
Decision), recorded on April 13, 2017, and I was extremely startled by
the fact that it was about presidential election vote rigging. How
timely! How fortuitous!
This episode refers back to an earlier episode, S02E07 (Defiance),
which was broadcast on November 28, 2012. In that episode, it was
revealed that the reason that Fitz Grant won the presidential election
was because Olivia Pope had authorized the rigging of voting machines
in Defiance County, Ohio. Ohio was a swing state, so rigging the
voting machines gave Fitz the victory in 2012.
Unlike you, I have been in Defiance, Ohio, and I can assure you that it is not the sort of community in which the local political figures would have rigged the Presidential election on behalf of Barack Obama. Although machines can malfunction, they are tested frequently. Government officials who generally have some of the best jobs in many small towns (like Defiance, Ohio) would risk losing those good jobs and get prison terms instead to give aid to the Presidential nominee of their choosing.
Some scriptwriter who knows little about Ohio politics liked the sound of the town's name and chose its name as a location. Having some camera crews from a TV production company come to town to take location shots for the set might have been attractive to a town that would have loved to have such people dine in the diners and perhaps pick something up at an antique store.
I would have more likely expected "Akron", "Cincinnati", "Cleveland", "Columbus", "Dayton", or "Toledo" as the sort of place where electoral hanky-panky might have helped Obama win... except that the Republican pols who dominate statewide government would have thwar5ted such before it could happen.
Defiance County, Ohio altogether had 18,349 voters in the Presidential election, and it went nearly 64-29 for Trump in 2016. My source: Leip's Election Atlas.
Quote:The April 13, 2017, episode was broadcast several months into the
Trump administration. At that time, there had been a great deal of
publicity about how the cast of Scandal had been traumatized by
Trump's victory. They had gathered on election day to celebrate
Hillary's victory, and when Trump won, they were all bawling and in
tears, and they were extremely depressed for weeks afterward, as I
recall the news stories at the time.
The April 13, 2017, episode was a bizarre "what if" episode which
portrayed what would have happened if Olivia had said "No" to rigging
the Defiance Ohio voting machines in 2012, so Fitz lost. Things turn
out badly in the "what if" scenario, and the episode sends a very
strong message. At the most dramatic moment in the episode, Fitz says
to Olivia, in essence: "You made a mistake. You should have
authorized the vote rigging. You should have rigged the election. At
least then I would have been president."
Ohio was decided by 8.07% of the popular vote, and 446 thousand popular votes, which is larger than the population of all but two of Ohio's cities. There were stories of dirty tricks that caused Trump to win Michigan (hackers cracked the Democratic Party's voter-outreach program and ensured that Democrats who went out canvassing found themselves approaching Trump supporters instead), but that is not so much electoral fraud as a dirty trick -- possibly done in Moscow... and I don't mean Moscow, Idaho.
In any event, Hollywood screenwriters are an erudite lot, and the one thing that most of us can say about Donald Trump is that he did a splendid job of reaching out to the "low-information" white voters particularly gullible. Yes, an ignoramus' vote counts as much as that of a PhD in astrophysics, and there are far more people who clerk at convenience stores than who teach Plato at the University. Still, I can't understand why so many Americans could vote for someone who disparaged formal learning and well-documented science, someone who is more grossly ignorant than many high-school students headed for the University, someone dripping with bigotry, a serial adulterer whose business acumen is best described as chiseling suppliers and contractors.
Enough Americans knew the consequences in 2020 to vote against him, and that is what matters now. Very wise people recognized Donald Trump as the disaster that he would be, but couldn't quite be the disaster that he would be. Now enough of us know and can offset his cult.
Quote:So, in my opinion, this episode was a call to arms to the Democrats to
find a way to rig the 2020 election. At that time, the Democrats were
already using bribery, extortion, and lying to courts to try to get
Trump removed, leading to the Russian, Ukraine and impeachment hoaxes.
The Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic was a godsend to the Democrats, since
they used it to flood the country with unsolicited ballots, and they
were able to use that in conjunction with the Dominion Software. At
least, that's what Trump's legal team is expecting to prove.
Uhhh... no. Highly-educated people watch little broadcast television, and most of what they do watch is either news or PBS. Television has never been a patrician media, and a character like the bus driver 'Ralph Kramden' likely bought a TV set before the engineer 'Ward Cleaver' did. Of TV antennas appeared in high-income areas rather early they were for the domestic staff on breaks. Well-educated people generally have better things to do with their time than to watch TV. Poor people with little education, funds, and imagination watch huge amounts of television.
Quote:---- (questionable -- PB) Sources:
-- Sidney Powell's Legal Defense Fund
https://defendingtherepublic.org/
(DefendingTheRepublic)
-- Defiance Ruined Everything: Scandal Episode 207 Recap
https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2012/11/...recap.html
(AwesomelyLuvvie, 30-Nov-2012)
-- Scandal Season 6, Episode 10 Recap: "The Decision"
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/04...episode-10
(Refinery29, 14-Apr-2017)
-- 5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-m...ion-norms/
(Federalist, 23-Nov-2020)
-- Majority Of Republicans Say Trump ‘Rightfully Won,’ Election Was
Rigged: Poll
https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/18/major...ters-poll/
(DailyCaller, 18-Nov-2020)
*Such a community exists, and I am not saying more except that it is full of Klan members.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
