Starlink questions

[Amishman]

102. Twenty years in software development, and I do not see a way to steal the election at scale

There is no magic that can be done by technology that won't quickly be caught by the people and checks involved in our process.

Our system as it exists today has excellent air gaps and audit trails, and countless engaged well-meaning volunteers involved in the process.

Precinct level volunteers know how many voters they had and what their totals were, and those I know are always very concerned that their work was recorded and counted accurately. Above and beyond the many double checks built into the system, those volunteers often do check their precinct's official total once the numbers are out and official.

As already mentioned tabulators are air gapped and not directly connected to the internet. The certification process involves manual double checking randomly selected samples.

Tampering in transmission (such as the starlink claim), or any point down-stream would be exposed quickly. Any flipped votes would be attributed to a precinct, and quickly noticed. Same for fabricated votes, with the added problem that fabricated votes would also quickly become unbelievable when compared to registered voters in the precinct and caught red handed when checked against turnout books.

My off the cuff guess is tampering is limited to a couple hundred votes per precinct before someone notices, and would still require the entire staff at the precinct to be in on it. To get a meaningful amount of fraud, you'd need an army of people working in thousands of precincts - a scale that makes keeping the secret, or just pulling it off, essentially impossible.

Because voter registration, turnout, and vote totals are reported publicly down to such a granular level, it is extremely easy to validate the integrity of the whole.