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Is cable TV programming political campaigning? How about youtube videos funded by the Kochs or Soros? "Election security," as in mandate, at the federal level,

Is cable TV programming political campaigning? How about youtube videos funded by the Kochs or Soros? "Election security," as in mandate, at the federal level, what the states do? Centralizing power (maximizing the possibility of a single point of failures) makes elections more vulnerable. Voting machines are air-gaped. Our elections were influenced by propaganda on social media, just like the Arab Spring. Evaluating actual 'cause and effect' is helpful when trying to understand situations.

alistairSH 7y ago
Is cable TV programming political campaigning? How about youtube videos funded by the Kochs or Soros? No, that's not campaigning, at least not officially. But, adding those into the mix makes the money spent even more ludicrous. As for federal mandates, I'm not sure I agree. Right now, states have nearly complete control of the election system, with vastly varying levels of competence. I'm not sure I'd want the federal government mandating which specific machine to use, but I'd love some consistency across states. And also some mandates around vote-by-mail and similar systems. Air-gapping voting machines only does so much good when nobody outside Diebold knows what the machine does on the inside.