- 22 Jun 2021 04:07
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A more apt (and real world) analogy is Texas refusing to adopt Federal electric grid standards (or joining the Federal grid) because "well, we don't have many blizzards here"
I think it's evident I'm not referring to gov't sanctioned faking, but even then you cannot fake a fingerprint i.e. the faker must fake his name in both his registration and his ID.
The question is not just about that. It's also what's the cost of having a failure.
When it comes to electoral results, the cost is sky high.
PataOneil wrote:Plenty of actual problems to deal with in the electoral process without distracting from them to handle problems that aren't. What you doing is similar to trying to convince a stage 3 lung cancer victim to wear sunscreen before treating the cancer... when the lung cancer victim is a shut in that never goes outside.
A more apt (and real world) analogy is Texas refusing to adopt Federal electric grid standards (or joining the Federal grid) because "well, we don't have many blizzards here"
PataOneil wrote:Any ID can be faked. Intelligence services do it all the time. We have a whole program here in the USA called the witness protection program. That issues members false ids that are just as good as the ones issued in the first place. So you are still just trading one uncertainty for another... to deal with a fantasy problem.
I think it's evident I'm not referring to gov't sanctioned faking, but even then you cannot fake a fingerprint i.e. the faker must fake his name in both his registration and his ID.
PataOneil wrote:Every system has holes. The question is do you want to restrict voting or allow it. As I've said, it's my personal opinion that it is better not to restrict voting. You could also simply require people to vote in person. Which would still permit them to vote as many times as they wanted to while taking out the possibility of automated voting.
The question is not just about that. It's also what's the cost of having a failure.
When it comes to electoral results, the cost is sky high.