Thank Dog, I 
my no-reason absentee ballot!
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I think its crazy that in this modern age i can’t mail my vote in, or vote remotely within a secure digital environment. Of course that’s by design 
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What’s incredibly stupid about the whole BS push Republicans make about “election security” is that the most secure way of voting is vote-by-mail. Only registered voters receive ballots, and voter registration is where the most reliable election security is. Voting in person is where election fraud is most likely, as social engineering can overcome almost any security measure. Take social engineering out of the picture and you make voting more secure.
Of course, Republicans hate vote-by-mail because it leads to higher voter turnout, which is bad for them, and it eliminates a lot of their favorite voter suppression strategies…
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Ain’t no such thing. Choose one.
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This. I’m tempted to edit my previous post to say online voting is even less secure than in-person, but I think it is worth amplifying with its own post.
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(excerpt) After pushback from sheriffs nationwide, a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” has disappeared from the Department of Homeland Security’s website.
The list was published last week, about a month after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to create a list of jurisdictions that have been obstructing federal immigration laws. These jurisdictions would risk their federal funds being terminated or suspended.
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The operation sort of combines the Trojan Horse and Potemkin Village. 
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I’ve worked with A.Prof Vanessa Teague, one of the world experts in digital voting and election security.
Her considered, expert technical opinion is what you’re asking for can be secure, secret, or anonymous, but you can’t have all three.
And the difference between mailing in paper ballots and remote digital voting vis-à-vis hacking is in the ease of hacking at scale and the detectability of it after the fact.
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In short:
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And hire more people before they retire.
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Yes, that precisely. Only if you ask Vanessa, it’s even worse than that. Her research has been showing that there’s a Gödel’s Theorem problem in there: even if the software was foolproof and could be proven (not just demonstrated, but proven) to be foolproof, it’s impossible in principle for it to do what’s being demanded: having a system where your vote is provably by you, and provably for your desired candidate (and not changed en route), but not traceable to you.
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Just saw a report that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is heading home to the US. He’s going to face criminal charges, but let’s see if that even gets past arraignment.
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I will be very interested to see exactly what the criminal charges are. I don’t think “making Il Douche look bad” is a crime yet, and as far as has been reported, he has no criminal history. So what is it?
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Another malicious prosecution from DOJ. I suspect there’s a large civil suit award or settlement in his future, not deportation.
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I’ll go out on a limb and guess those charges are as real as the photoshopped “MS13” tattoos.
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He was definitely involved in trafficking, on the victim side of the equation. I hope he has an army of pro bono attorneys ready to first defeat the perse-/prosecution and to then secure him a fat civil settlement.
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That made me laugh. Perse happens to mean arse in Finnish.
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