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Tucker: Ballot harvesting makes a mockery of the secret vote
Fox News YouTube Channel ^ | May 26 2020 | Tucker Carlson

Posted on 05/26/2020 9:25:03 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

Excellent segment on voter fraud by mail in ballots and ballot harvesting, including the Twitter censorship of President Trump’s Tweets on mail in voter fraud. 10 minutes long.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; ballotharvesting; ballots; election; electionfraud; fraud; tuckercarlson; twitter; votefrauddatabase; voteharvesting; voterfraud
Been saying it for years: President Trump needs to move his account to conservative alternatives like Parler or Parler. He does have 77 million followers on Twitter after all. At the same time, Twitter should be sued by the DOJ, The Trump campaign, the House Republicans, and the GOP itself for at the very least, illegal campaign contributions to the Democrats and more. Thing is, it will take too long for that to go through the courts for it to be of much use in the 2020 elections.
1 posted on 05/26/2020 9:25:03 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Conservative alternatives like Parler or Gab.


2 posted on 05/26/2020 9:26:31 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Trump won’t do anything other than try to bluff Twitter into playing fair. It’s a losing tactic.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 9:36:53 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: SmokingJoe

Given the Democrats’ wet-dream of 100% mail-in voting I’m wondering if there is a way to prevent ballot stuffing while still keeping who you voted for a secret.

Here’s an idea. Every voter has a social security number and a date of birth, right? So compute HMAC(SSN+DOB+Secret1)=QR using a one-way Hash-based Message Authentication Code [HMAC]. Secret1 is randomly generated by the election bureau for each ballot. Print it as a scannable QR code on the ballot (think TicketMaster).

This gives each ballot a unique QR such that no two ballots with different SSNs and birthdates are the same, preventing duplication. The voter can later confirm that his/her ballet was indeed counted by entering in their SSN + DOB at the election registrar’s website to check.

The other problem is vote tampering. Using the same basic system the voter can verify on the registrar’s website to confirm who they voted for. When the ballot is received the registrar scans the QR and computes HMAC(QR+MyVote+Secret2), where Secret2 is known only to the registrar. Do this for each political office on the ballot. The voter can then go to the website and enter their personal info to confirm that the vote was counted correctly.

You can strengthen the privacy of the system by using something like two-factor authentication where a second entity (not the registrar) counter-signs each QR with Secret3.

This system guarantees privacy, prevents ballot duplication, and detects vote tampering. Or is it too easy?


4 posted on 05/26/2020 9:44:21 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

Nothing makes the Democrats cry foul faster than outdoing them at their own game. Place a bounty on anyone caught ballot harvesting. Like $50 per ballot in their possession or delivered to a poling station (minumum $500). Make it a Felony that requires cash restitution of the bounty paid to catch them + $1000.

If you see someone picking up ballots mailed to people who no longer live at your address or are asked by someone to help you fill out your ballot, or otherwise tampers with your ballot, report them for BIG CASH!!!

Meanwhile, instead of door knockers and all of the wasted effort phone banking.. we need to do our own perfectly leagal harvesting, big time.

Then they will say, never mind!


5 posted on 05/26/2020 10:17:23 PM PDT by dalight
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To: Gideon7

Your system sounds really good to me. Well thought out too.
The only thing is to convince the deep blue state governors to adopt it. After all their aim is NOT to stop fraud. Their aim is to carry out the maximum fraud they can get away with.
I think the Trump campaign, the GOP and the GOP election committees in the House and the Senate should set up a high powered body to come up with Ideas and legal strategies to stop or at least reduce to a minimum, voter fraud in November. The future of the Republic is at stake.
This should be done NOW, including filing lawsuits everywhere when needed.
Waiting till November won’t do any good.


6 posted on 05/26/2020 10:41:25 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: CatOwner
Trump can and should do something about Twitter. There are quite a few solid opinions including moving to other platforms. He seems reluctant to do that.
Devin Nunes and some GOP congressmen already sued Twitter about a year ago. Not sure what became of that.
7 posted on 05/26/2020 10:47:36 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: dalight

You’re going to fine these crooks? Money is not an issue. They should be hanged in public and left
For crows and buzzards.


8 posted on 05/26/2020 10:53:36 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Gideon7

Send that to Trump.


9 posted on 05/26/2020 10:54:19 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: SmokingJoe

https://www.facebook.com/vinnysinisi/videos/2677295625615990

Above is questioning by Ted Cruz of some guy (a liberal academic) about voting manipulation. Not stealing votes, but Twitter, Google, Facebook etc. “pushing” to go out to vote, but just sending out the reminder to democrats.

He estimates that in 2020 this pushing (as well as manipulating search results, which doesn’t cost google, etc. anything) - he estimates they could get out 2.6 to 10.4 million more votes to the democrat.


10 posted on 05/26/2020 11:04:26 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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I watched that when it happened.
Question is, what has Ted Cruz done about it since?


11 posted on 05/26/2020 11:16:53 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

VIDEO: 26 May: Fox News: Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick bashes Twitter, Dems over mail-in voting: ‘If they get it, it’s the end of democracy’
by Victor Garcia
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick admonished Democrats for pushing mail-in voting Tuesday, telling “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday that such measures would be “the end of democracy” if they were ever enacted...
“Twitter owes the president an apology,” Patrick said. “They fact-checked him, Laura, for his opinion. And by the way, his opinion was based on fact, because the Democrats are trying to steal this election.

“I just tweeted out that the Democrat plan to have everyone vote by mail is an invitation for fraud and it’s a total scam,” Patrick told Ingraham. “And tonight, I would like all of your millions of viewers to tweet their own tweet out about how mail-in ballots are a scam by the Democrats.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-patrick-mail-in-voting-end-democracy

Patrick speaks about Colleen Vera’s investigation:

22 May: TexasScorecard: Texas AG Launches Mail-Ballot Voter Fraud Probe in Harris County
Amid Democrat lawsuits to expand vote-by-mail, a local citizen’s complaint leads to an investigation of possible illegal mail-ballot harvesting in a Democrat primary.
By Erin Anderson
State officials are launching an investigation into alleged voter fraud after receiving a citizen complaint about mail-ballot harvesting in Harris County.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office notified local resident Colleen Vera earlier this week that they are taking action on her election complaint, which was filed with the Texas Secretary of State’s office in April.

Paxton’s probe comes as his office is fighting two lawsuits filed by the Texas Democrat Party using the coronavirus as an excuse to allow everyone to vote by mail.

Vera’s complaint documents that “people with prior forgery convictions picked up large batches of ballot by mail applications for local campaigns and a number of voted ballots were marked identically,” said SOS Director of Elections Keith Ingram when he referred the matter to OAG earlier this month.

A video first made public by watchdog group Direct Action Texas, showing what appeared to be illegal mail-ballot harvesting in Harris County’s 2018 Democrat primary, prompted Vera’s research.

The video shows a woman identifying herself as a campaign worker for State Rep. Harold Dutton (D–Houston) and telling an elderly voter how to fill out her ballot, adding “we’ve done over 400 already.”...

Vera, a retired school teacher, spent two years reviewing thousands of public documents, including mail-ballot applications, carrier envelopes, and eventually the ballots themselves (state law made her wait 22 months to see those)…
https://texasscorecard.com/local/texas-ag-launches-mail-ballot-voter-fraud-probe-in-harris-county/


12 posted on 05/27/2020 12:19:49 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: SmokingJoe

Conservative alternatives? Really?


13 posted on 05/27/2020 2:40:29 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Cobra64

Its a federal crime. So the who is obvious. And, the point is to make them afraid of their marks who might turn them in any one of them.

Otherwise the flip side is to use what ever rules they set up to do the same to them. There are about 40 million pissed off voters, about 60% who used to vote Democrat to reach out to and persuade. And, sweep up the ballots that have been mis-delivered back to the authorities, while tracking each ballot to make sure it was actually voted by the individual via correcting or fraud voted, or destroyed. So, recruiting Republican precinct judges who are hard asses is part of the deal.


14 posted on 05/27/2020 8:35:05 AM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight

Agree!


15 posted on 05/27/2020 8:57:30 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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