How to Tsurvive a Tsunami

Our Voting System Is Bot-Infested, Audits Needed To Stop Fraud-o-Mation

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Last summer, I got a postcard from our county election board, starting a chain of events that wheeled me down on Tuesday to town hall in our sleepy blue suburban community, where I spent Election Day as a poll worker.

We started at 430AM and didn’t get done until after 10 PM. I learned some new skills, made some new friends, saw people I hadn’t seen in years, and participated in this thing called “our democracy.”

But I don’t think I’ll be doing it again.

Because even here in Anytown, USA —where there were near-zero shenanigans— it’s easy to see how high-tech automation of voting systems is neutralizing the people’s last resort against abusive government.

By those who claim to be “protecting democracy” by making it “easier to vote,” but in fact are adding complexity, while ferociously fighting off any audit of our voting infrastructure that would assure us that our leaders are actually the ones we elected.

Front Row Seat To The Tsunami

As a sucker for the sensational, I was hoping for a front-row seat to the anticipated Red Tsunami, and spent most of the day checking in voters. Things were steady, but not backed out the door.

No surprise there— we weren’t in a general or swing state— but I picked up on enough to get a sense of what happened in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois. And what they’re trying to keep the lid on in Arizona and Nevada.

Our poll station check-in system is run on iPads. You look up the voter’s name, confirm their address, and they sign right on the iPad.

If the signature matches, they are instantly synced across the system. Nobody else can check in anywhere else under that name and cast their vote. And you have to vote in the district and ward where you are registered.

Unless you have a mail-in ballot or vote early. Early voters can vote anywhere in the county. Mail-in voters can leave their ballot at any drop-box in the state, or at any post office in the country.

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Mad As Hell Over Mail-In Hell

About six percent of in-person voters found themselves stuck in something called mail-in hell. You get to the polling station, check in, and the system says you can’t vote at the polls— because you were sent a mail-in ballot.

Even though you never received or asked for a mail-in ballot.

That pissed off pretty much everyone. And could you blame them? Most of these folks do not trust the post office or drop-box system, deliberately come down on Election Day, only to learn they have to fill out handwritten provisional ballots, which are stuck in a pouch, and sent off to the county, where they are not counted until after all mail-in ballots are tallied.

Ballots Uber Alles

That’s to prevent you from voting twice. But the ability to override every other voting method points to why politicians in power won’t give up mail-in ballots:

In person and early voting connect voters to machines; mail-in connects ballots to votes.

And through technology, ballots and votes are increasingly being connected at wire-line speed, allowing corrupt rulers to turn registration databases into rechargeable gift cards for winning elections without having to campaign.

Elections are not about getting more votes— through rallies, endorsements, ads, lawn signs, phone-banking, etc. They are about delivering more ballots. As long as you can match in ballots the number of votes coming at you— along with a margin of victory—you can fight off any tsunami of any color—red, blue or otherwise.

No matter how much damage you do to the country.

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Bot Votes Numerically Ending America As We Know It

Take my one-horse Anytown as an example. We have a population of just under 5,000, and just over 3,900 registered voters, according to the state’s voter database. Census data shows about 3,600 over age 18. So we have a surplus of 300 people (7.7%) on the voter rolls not accounted for by the census.

These surplus voters may be absent for a variety of reasons— inaccurate census data, military duty, nursing home residents, etc. At least one was deceased, as I learned from one voter whose late father was still in the database.

But if you have early voting, a predictable registration surplus, AND you know in real-time which voters showed on game day, you’ve got a bot army for printing victory.

For yourself— and others—over and over again by any of the following:

1. Delivering mail-in ballots to drop-boxes before polls close—those who already voted in-person have their mail-ins tossed, and never know the difference.

2. Delivering mail-in ballots via USPS with Election Day cancellation marks on the outside—those who didn’t vote will never know their vote was stolen until they get a mail-in ballot the following year.

3. Baking in a 5-8% margin of victory by seeding mail-in ballot requests across the voter population, and not mailing out the ballots. Unsuspecting citizens fill out provisional ballots which are overridden by the mail-ins already submitted on their behalf with scanned in signature from voter rolls.

Boards of election say they have controls in place, but with near-zero rejection rates on signature verification, you know everything is getting through.

The biggest risk is whistleblowers, who might get suspicious at the number of mail-ins being processed. So you have to have to keep a tight throttle on the volume of ballots going through, and outsource things as much as possible to contractors who can be fired versus civil servants who can’t.

This model is not hard to implement and scale. Again, take my town as an example. A little over 900 people showed up to vote on game day, with another 300+ voting early or by mail. That means around 2,700 Anytown voters did not participate in the 2022 midterms. The faster you capture and convert that number into ballots, the bigger your gift card for securing your own and buying others’ election outcomes.

Scale that across roughly 175,000 election precincts in the America, and you can be President-for-Life.

Replace that with all-digital, and the United States becomes a thing of the past.

Fraud-o-Mation: Results Speak For Themselves

And the tell that it’s working is in the results—New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota— where the worst possible candidates did next to nothing, and beat the best possible opponents who did everything.

It’s not about who has the bigger rally, the better show, or the bulkier CV any more. It’s about who controls and automates the ballot-to-vote conversion better, faster, and keeps the public in dark longer.

Until the Uniparty consolidates power and we can text in our vote to the One World Order.

That’s why they are fighting to the death in Arizona— a populist governor, secretary of state and attorney general could blow the lid off this Fraud-o-Mation, and shit would really hit the fan. Maybe worse than the 2020 Summer of Love. I’m not sure that’s an outcome we want to revisit, although there are some people and institutions who now clearly deserve a little tough love.

Nothing to See Here? Great! This Audit Should Be Easy!

This testimony of my short, happy life as a poll worker is not offered as proof, or even as a conspiracy theory of malpractice or malfeasance. But there are too many obvious security gaps in the apparatus, and too many anomalies—documented and anecdotal— that call for exhaustive top-to-bottom system-wide voting infrastructure, process, and election audits in every state.

At best, the complexity of our voting system works against the process it is supposed to guarantee. At worst, it’s infested with bots, and has been turned into a platform for war on another of our fundamental liberties— the right to vote and to know your vote was counted.

Post-2022 midterms, there seems to be embarrassment across the board, and we are not hearing much blather about “most secure elections ever.” It’s even safe to say that if America’s voting system was a publicly traded company, speculators would be massively shorting the stock— output increasingly has nothing to do with input.

America’s voting system is long overdue for a top-to-bottom audit of not just results but of the entire system.

Companies not only submit to but welcome regular audits— financial, IT, security, compliance, etc. as a requirement for conducting business, and for maintaining their customer reputations. How those running our elections have been allowed to get away without audits for so long despite declining public confidence in their results can have no wholesome explanation. State governments must not just submit to but invite system-wide process audits of voting infrastructure, and election-specific audits with canvasses. These audits should be as comprehensive and time-consuming as needed to restore public trust in our voting system and technology infrastructure.

During which time, we return to complete in-person, on-paper system. If these insane woke and spending initiatives that politicians are proposing are really as popular as they claim, they will carry the day no matter whether they are counted by marbles, pieces of paper, or electrons.

Harvey Oxenhorn, is a cybersecurity consultant, founder of Malwords Weekly, and author of the upcoming book, The Atrocity Algorithm, How The Media Became The Enemy of The People. He writes The Five Stages of Unf*ck, Red Pill Journey to January 2.0. , also on Substack. Follow him on Gettr, Gab, and MeWe @HarveyOxenhorn