State of the Day

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Oops! Remember that thing we said would never happen?

Well, it keeps happening.

THE THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS KEEPS HAPPENING

1,600 in Oregon. 1,500 in California. Over 6,000 in Virginia. Some in Utah, Georgia, and Michigan. Even Texas! A staggering 97,000 in Arizona were marked as having provided “proof of citizenship,” but in reality, many of them, if not most, marked “non-citizen” and yet were still registered to vote.

The growing voter roll issue in New Jersey is just like a playbook that’s become routine: This isn’t happening. It’s described as “rare” and “isolated.” Oops, the thing that never happens actually took place quite frequently.

But don’t worry; it’s merely a software bug! Just a few thousand!

New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, stated that 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote despite indicating “non-citizen” at the DMV due to a “software error,” and she plans to “replace” the “vendor responsible.”

Here’s the catch: The “vendor responsible” claims that Sherrill’s own Elections Commission is the party at fault.

Quite the mystery, huh?

Not really. The process is what’s problematic.

Back in the good old days of 2019, when people might have been a bit more honest—before knowing how the future would unfold—Kamala Harris said, “The best way to conduct elections? Paper ballots … Russia can’t hack a piece of paper.”

Paper ballots might’ve been her intention, but she wasn’t focusing on in-person voting. Many machines at that time utilized “electronic voting,” somewhat akin to using an ATM kiosk.

Yet, it turns out you can mess with paper ballots too. In hacker jargon, they refer to this as a “man in the middle” attack.

Gemini defines MIM as “a cybersecurity threat where an attacker secretly intercepts, relays, or alters communications between two parties who think they are communicating directly with each other.”

So if Javier Vasquez attempts to honestly apply for a non-citizen driver’s license, it only takes inserting the right individuals between his submitted form and the voter registration endpoint, and voilà, there’s another person on the rolls.

If you ponder this a bit deeper, you’ll see why Republicans dislike voting mechanisms that insert bureaucrats and activists between the voter, their registration, and the ballot box.

While she may have gotten some details wrong, Harris was inadvertently correct in a broader context. Analog voting methods are significantly tougher to hack. If 99% of voters cast a single hard-copy vote in person, and if the ballot box maintains an airtight chain of custody, there’s little chance of stealing an election.

(Of course, compromising registration, breaking the chain of custody, and ballot stuffing—like what happened with Kennedy’s allies in Illinois—can still occur, but the barriers are considerably high.)

Trying to mount a MIM attack on those who are elderly, sick, or deployed would be nearly impossible without getting caught, especially if a large majority of enlisted personnel voted for one candidate, for instance.

No, it’s not just the vendor or even the state. The process itself is what troubles Republicans and offers an edge to Democrats.

The complexity and multitude of factors involved in election systems can, in some states, deter traditional forms of identification and registration. The way votes are gathered places several individuals between the voter and the ballot box.

This might be part of why Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin openly admitted that reverting to widespread analog voting—where people vote in person, show ID, and use paper ballots—would “rig our democracy” and make it “hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.”

The approach many Democrats advocate for how to run elections mirrors the voting system used on shows like “American Idol.” Remember, you can vote ten times on Facebook and ten times via text!

When the methods of voting become disconnected from the civic duty we once envisioned, how can you have any confidence in it? Honestly, you can’t.

But that’s not a mere “software error.” It’s a feature—one that Democrats are likely to continue leveraging to win future elections.

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