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submitted 5 days ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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In the leafy suburbs of Rockland County, New York, democracy tripped on a loose wire and hit its head. What started as a small lawsuit over a few missing votes may be unraveling into one of the most damning election integrity scandals in years.

At the center of it all: missing votes, statistical anomalies, and a federally accredited testing lab called Pro V&V, whose seal of approval may be worth less than the paper it’s rubber-stamped on.

In 2024, voters in Rockland County, NY, filed sworn legal affidavits claiming they had voted for independent Senate candidate Diane Sare. But the machines told a different story. In one district, nine people said they voted for her. The machines recorded five. In another, five claimed to vote for her but only three were officially counted by the machines.

At the same time, In districts where voters clearly favored Democrats (evident by strong support for democratic Senate candidate Kirsten Gillibrand) Kamala Harris’s name either underperformed or seemed to disappear from the top of the ballot completely. They’d found that in some of the counties people where voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate Kirsten, Kamala Harris somehow got no votes at all.

At the same time, Donald Trump raked in more than 750,000 votes above what Republican Senate candidates received on the exact same ballots. That would mean 750k people voted for him & skipped the rest of the Republicans on the same ballot. That kind of pattern doesn’t scream voter preference. It whispers something went wrong in the vote count itself.

Holy shit.

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[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

All voting should be by paper ballet that that is scanned so the ballets can be hand counted when needed.

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 7 points 4 days ago

It’s a lot harder to alter/forge/discard hundreds of thousands of paper ballots than digital ballots, and thus requires a lot more people.

More people involved means more people who could speak out or slip up and reveal the plot.

This is why paper ballots will always be more secure, not matter how good encryption is, how hardened and secure the machines are or how many safe guards are put in place in software.

[-] princessnorah 2 points 4 days ago

It's always been wild to me that America has voting machines. Here in Australia only paper ballots are legal, and everything is hand counted, even if it takes days. Our ballots are a lot more complicated with preferential voting too, so with FPTP it should be easy to hand count!

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

How many dozens—maybe hundreds—of times has this happened throughout the country?

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 9 points 5 days ago

I'm afraid I have neither the time nor resources to come up with a monthslong investigative piece to answer that question.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Can't wait for some random .ml to suddenly start defending the integrity of American elections.

[-] dinren@discuss.online 5 points 5 days ago

No surprise there.

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