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2024 United States Presidential Election Megathread
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Givethanks
Superstar
Are you all not seeing this in real time
Pull Up the Roots
Veteran
Lee Fang is so fukking stupid.
1/1
@feedbackmhgroup
Former President Donald Trump said he would 'protect' women whether they 'like it or not'.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1853408322487009280/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/j1_CyXnoAO-k4mr5.mp4
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@feedbackmhgroup
Former President Donald Trump said he would 'protect' women whether they 'like it or not'.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1853408322487009280/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/j1_CyXnoAO-k4mr5.mp4
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1/22
@DrEricDing
Dear Hispanic-Americans who voted for Trump…
[Quoted tweet]
The Spanish version of the White House website and the White House’s Spanish Twitter account have been deleted.
2/22
@DrEricDing
Also, dear women voters for Trump…
[Quoted tweet]
Trump WH has now cancelled reproductiverights.gov — which helped women find health care.
3/22
@DrEricDing
3) Dear Congress- don’t let a dictator usurp you…
[Quoted tweet]
Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is unlawful until is is approved by Congress.
The U.S. entered WHO membership through a 1948 joint resolution passed by both houses of Congress. Former President Harry Truman explicitly referenced that resolution as his legal basis for joining WHO. The Trump WH’s unilateral action notifying the UN that the USA is withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO.
4/22
@DrEricDing
4) Who is scarier at this point.. Trump or Musk? Unclear.
[Quoted tweet]
My god… Musk just did the N*zi Salute live on TV.
5/22
@DrEricDing
5) let this be another lesson… their promises to help you are practically worthless.
[Quoted tweet]
Republicans, including JD Vance, said over and over again that Donald Trump would not pardon people who assaulted cops. But he’s done just that tonight. Hundreds of them.
6/22
@reeseys
Seems redundant, wasteful - Aren’t there other sources that accomplish the same thing?
7/22
@TownqtH
Im not surprised at the men, but the fact that soo many women think reproductive rights means only abortions is alarming. No wonder a lot of red states are continually the lowest ranked in education. It's 2025, do better. Google is free. Learn your bodies.
8/22
@Uber_Merc
So when we compromise you as a spy for the MSS,
What’re you gonna do?
9/22
@FLManStan
Wrong, this website went dark on 1/15
10/22
@CapeBHighlander
Can someone do a welfare check on the good dr? Sheesh, he's really melting down...
11/22
@julianmc28
Is what the majority of women voted for
12/22
@CoachNessN
@CommunityNotes this was shut down on 1/15 I’m sure there are other lies in this thread as well.
13/22
@ItsRebekahStar
Woman here, dont care.
14/22
@SMSPirate
Funny how you suddenly know what a woman is... Someone whose gestating babies you can sell for research and body parts profits. Got it.
15/22
@Jane4UsGirls
The website listed abortion clinics. Use the yellow pages - it’s a lot cheaper.
16/22
@EthanrMonroe
There was nothing "reproductive" about what that site was showing women.
17/22
@SylviaR89025843
Good.
18/22
@SwampLifeCowgrl
Good. It’s not healthcare that was promoted. It’s been murder.
19/22
@MrsNicholson925
Hispanic woman here
20/22
@JetsFanNick
21/22
@SMSPirate
No one needed help finding healthcare. You just needed more aborted fetal tissue, organs, and biogenics to keep up with your investment portfolio.
22/22
@KayKasper263927
It’s awesome. No more instructions on where to kill your kids.
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@DrEricDing
Dear Hispanic-Americans who voted for Trump…
[Quoted tweet]
The Spanish version of the White House website and the White House’s Spanish Twitter account have been deleted.
2/22
@DrEricDing
Also, dear women voters for Trump…
[Quoted tweet]
Trump WH has now cancelled reproductiverights.gov — which helped women find health care.
3/22
@DrEricDing
3) Dear Congress- don’t let a dictator usurp you…
[Quoted tweet]
Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is unlawful until is is approved by Congress. The U.S. entered WHO membership through a 1948 joint resolution passed by both houses of Congress. Former President Harry Truman explicitly referenced that resolution as his legal basis for joining WHO. The Trump WH’s unilateral action notifying the UN that the USA is withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO.
4/22
@DrEricDing
4) Who is scarier at this point.. Trump or Musk? Unclear.
[Quoted tweet]
My god… Musk just did the N*zi Salute live on TV.
5/22
@DrEricDing
5) let this be another lesson… their promises to help you are practically worthless.
[Quoted tweet]
Republicans, including JD Vance, said over and over again that Donald Trump would not pardon people who assaulted cops. But he’s done just that tonight. Hundreds of them.
6/22
@reeseys
Seems redundant, wasteful - Aren’t there other sources that accomplish the same thing?
7/22
@TownqtH
Im not surprised at the men, but the fact that soo many women think reproductive rights means only abortions is alarming. No wonder a lot of red states are continually the lowest ranked in education. It's 2025, do better. Google is free. Learn your bodies.
8/22
@Uber_Merc
So when we compromise you as a spy for the MSS,
What’re you gonna do?
9/22
@FLManStan
Wrong, this website went dark on 1/15
10/22
@CapeBHighlander
Can someone do a welfare check on the good dr? Sheesh, he's really melting down...
11/22
@julianmc28
Is what the majority of women voted for
12/22
@CoachNessN
@CommunityNotes this was shut down on 1/15 I’m sure there are other lies in this thread as well.
13/22
@ItsRebekahStar
Woman here, dont care.
14/22
@SMSPirate
Funny how you suddenly know what a woman is... Someone whose gestating babies you can sell for research and body parts profits. Got it.
15/22
@Jane4UsGirls
The website listed abortion clinics. Use the yellow pages - it’s a lot cheaper.
16/22
@EthanrMonroe
There was nothing "reproductive" about what that site was showing women.
17/22
@SylviaR89025843
Good.
18/22
@SwampLifeCowgrl
Good. It’s not healthcare that was promoted. It’s been murder.
19/22
@MrsNicholson925
Hispanic woman here
20/22
@JetsFanNick
21/22
@SMSPirate
No one needed help finding healthcare. You just needed more aborted fetal tissue, organs, and biogenics to keep up with your investment portfolio.
22/22
@KayKasper263927
It’s awesome. No more instructions on where to kill your kids.
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1/11
@Greg_Palast
If not for the mass purge of voters of color, and the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass vigilante challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official tally by 1.2 million.
2/11
@Greg_Palast
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow. Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
3/11
@Greg_Palast
In 2024, after an avalanche of new not-going-to-let-you-vote laws passed in almost every red state, the number of citizens Jim Crow’d out of their vote soared into the millions. Since 2020, according to @BrennanCenter, “At least 30 states enacted 78 restrictive laws.”
4/11
@Greg_Palast
The race-targeted laws ran the gamut from shuttering drop boxes in Black-majority cities to, for the first time, allowing non-government self-appointed “vote fraud vigilantes” to challenge voters by the hundreds of thousands.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1797642985087303680/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LAyM-G84i-fcMGjC.mp4
5/11
@Greg_Palast
Throughout election seasons, the MSM write stories and editorials decrying vote suppression tactics — but, notably, they will never, ever say that these ugly racist attacks on voters changed the outcome of an election.
6/11
@Greg_Palast
If these vote suppression laws had no effect on election outcomes, then why did GOP legislators fight so hard to pass them? The answer is clear on the Brennan Center’s map of states that passed restrictive laws. It’s pretty much Trump’s victory map.
7/11
@Greg_Palast
Voting rights have never before been in such danger.
This is a moment of need for our nation. Please support our work and dig deep. And, if you do donate, we have books and films as a gift for your generosity.
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8/11
@su_z_t
I wish talking heads would stop saying "the voters wanted this" when in fact it was voter suppression that got Drump elected.
9/11
@PastorDScott
“rigged” huh?
10/11
@Wraga_here
Everyone remember this is total bullshyt! If you have an IQ over 34.5 please don’t fall for this grifter with a hat
11/11
@rlpage_insp
You appear to be /search?q=#electiondenier
I thought this was bad
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@Greg_Palast
If not for the mass purge of voters of color, and the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass vigilante challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official tally by 1.2 million.
2/11
@Greg_Palast
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow. Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
3/11
@Greg_Palast
In 2024, after an avalanche of new not-going-to-let-you-vote laws passed in almost every red state, the number of citizens Jim Crow’d out of their vote soared into the millions. Since 2020, according to @BrennanCenter, “At least 30 states enacted 78 restrictive laws.”
4/11
@Greg_Palast
The race-targeted laws ran the gamut from shuttering drop boxes in Black-majority cities to, for the first time, allowing non-government self-appointed “vote fraud vigilantes” to challenge voters by the hundreds of thousands.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1797642985087303680/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LAyM-G84i-fcMGjC.mp4
5/11
@Greg_Palast
Throughout election seasons, the MSM write stories and editorials decrying vote suppression tactics — but, notably, they will never, ever say that these ugly racist attacks on voters changed the outcome of an election.
6/11
@Greg_Palast
If these vote suppression laws had no effect on election outcomes, then why did GOP legislators fight so hard to pass them? The answer is clear on the Brennan Center’s map of states that passed restrictive laws. It’s pretty much Trump’s victory map.
7/11
@Greg_Palast
Voting rights have never before been in such danger.
This is a moment of need for our nation. Please support our work and dig deep. And, if you do donate, we have books and films as a gift for your generosity.
Yes, I will help Rescue the 2026 Vote! | Palast Investigative Fund (Powered by Donorbox)/search?q=#VotingRights = /search?q=#HumanRights
8/11
@su_z_t
I wish talking heads would stop saying "the voters wanted this" when in fact it was voter suppression that got Drump elected.
9/11
@PastorDScott
“rigged” huh?
10/11
@Wraga_here
Everyone remember this is total bullshyt! If you have an IQ over 34.5 please don’t fall for this grifter with a hat
11/11
@rlpage_insp
You appear to be /search?q=#electiondenier
I thought this was bad
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1/9
@Greg_Palast
If not for the mass purge of voters of color, and the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass vigilante challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official tally by 1.2 million.
2/9
@Greg_Palast
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow. Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
3/9
@Greg_Palast
In 2024, after an avalanche of new not-going-to-let-you-vote laws passed in almost every red state, the number of citizens Jim Crow’d out of their vote soared into the millions. Since 2020, according to @BrennanCenter, “At least 30 states enacted 78 restrictive laws.”
4/9
@Greg_Palast
The race-targeted laws ran the gamut from shuttering drop boxes in Black-majority cities to, for the first time, allowing non-government self-appointed “vote fraud vigilantes” to challenge voters by the hundreds of thousands.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1797642985087303680/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LAyM-G84i-fcMGjC.mp4
5/9
@Greg_Palast
Throughout election seasons, the MSM write stories and editorials decrying vote suppression tactics — but, notably, they will never, ever say that these ugly racist attacks on voters changed the outcome of an election.
6/9
@Greg_Palast
If these vote suppression laws had no effect on election outcomes, then why did GOP legislators fight so hard to pass them? The answer is clear on the Brennan Center’s map of states that passed restrictive laws. It’s pretty much Trump’s victory map.
7/9
@Greg_Palast
Voting rights have never before been in such danger.
This is a moment of need for our nation. Please support our work and dig deep. And, if you do donate, we have books and films as a gift for your generosity.
Yes, I will help Rescue the 2026 Vote! | Palast Investigative Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
/search?q=#VotingRights = /search?q=#HumanRights
8/9
@jecasey3
It always does. From both sides.
9/9
@jecasey3
Vote suppression is eternal and always done by both parties. Who ever is most skilled wins. Dems ran the worst campaign I have ever seen. Deserved to lose. And no, Trump did not deserve to win.
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@Greg_Palast
If not for the mass purge of voters of color, and the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass vigilante challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official tally by 1.2 million.
2/9
@Greg_Palast
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow. Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
3/9
@Greg_Palast
In 2024, after an avalanche of new not-going-to-let-you-vote laws passed in almost every red state, the number of citizens Jim Crow’d out of their vote soared into the millions. Since 2020, according to @BrennanCenter, “At least 30 states enacted 78 restrictive laws.”
4/9
@Greg_Palast
The race-targeted laws ran the gamut from shuttering drop boxes in Black-majority cities to, for the first time, allowing non-government self-appointed “vote fraud vigilantes” to challenge voters by the hundreds of thousands.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1797642985087303680/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LAyM-G84i-fcMGjC.mp4
5/9
@Greg_Palast
Throughout election seasons, the MSM write stories and editorials decrying vote suppression tactics — but, notably, they will never, ever say that these ugly racist attacks on voters changed the outcome of an election.
6/9
@Greg_Palast
If these vote suppression laws had no effect on election outcomes, then why did GOP legislators fight so hard to pass them? The answer is clear on the Brennan Center’s map of states that passed restrictive laws. It’s pretty much Trump’s victory map.
7/9
@Greg_Palast
Voting rights have never before been in such danger.
This is a moment of need for our nation. Please support our work and dig deep. And, if you do donate, we have books and films as a gift for your generosity.
Yes, I will help Rescue the 2026 Vote! | Palast Investigative Fund (Powered by Donorbox)/search?q=#VotingRights = /search?q=#HumanRights
8/9
@jecasey3
It always does. From both sides.
9/9
@jecasey3
Vote suppression is eternal and always done by both parties. Who ever is most skilled wins. Dems ran the worst campaign I have ever seen. Deserved to lose. And no, Trump did not deserve to win.
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Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social)
I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....
bsky.app
1/40
Denise Wheeler
I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went
This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers
2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon
But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof
Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....
2/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
They describe BallotProof as a methodology built for faster, smarter, and more secure validation of ballots.
But you only have to dive into the script to know what it really does.
This is the link to the Devpost page, detailing the progam & all the tools used
BallotProof
3/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You have to ask why was a team of four 18-19 yr olds looking that closely at ballots?
And why in the world would they need to make a program like that?
You can look up BallotProof on github, see all the files, and know why.
Here's the link to the test files: test – Google Drive
4/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You can see that it appears to be a Python script that programmatically creates a series of synthetic ballot images (two pages per ballot) with random variations, then logs information about each generated image in a text file.
In essence, it’s simulating “filled-out” ballots.
5/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
But the issue isn't the BallotProof Tool they built. It's the https://[U][URL]https://generate.py//[/URL][/U] program that by their own words can:
"The generation script (generate.py) enables the generation of semi-randomized ballots that fit certain satisfiability criteria."
6/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
So they can take any blank official ballot and auto generate any amount of Marked ballot images that can fit any statistical criteria they want.
7/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Just remember, at election time it's the count of Ballot Images that are tabulated & not purely the paper ballots themselves.
So what else do you use a function tool like this for, if you don't also have access to actual ballots?
Actual ballots with proofs/watermarks etc?
Here's that answer:
8/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You only have to dig a little deeper to see that they have this script, used to create test ballots.
ballotproof/generate.py at master · DevrathIyer/ballotproof
9/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
There are 160 example ballots that were generated in the 'test' folder of the git repository.
10/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
There's also a folder of artificially generated ballot images from Maricopa County.
test – Google Drive
11/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You basically see that this tool they built could be used to invalidate ballots in bulk.
Machines could do it during initial scanning instead of later on, or on custom metrics.
Just set the machines to count less blue ink ballots and instruct democratic areas to use blue pens.
12/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
It was 2020 that he came up with the ballot program, not 2000
13/40
Lilith @lilithgnosis.bsky.social
this got me thinking...they say ballot machines are safe bc not connected to the Internet, but they don't have to be if a program like 'Clear Ballot' is a Trojan horse. Not saying it is, but we are dealing with Nero-level bad guys.
'Just too easy to hack’: Elon Musk claims voting machines rig elections, calls for paper ballots - The Times of India
14/40
Lilith @lilithgnosis.bsky.social
Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk’s Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines
15/40
ilidiocarmona.bsky.social @ilidiocarmona.bsky.social
Musk said if trump doesn't win he will go to prison......and you know if trump lost that election he would end up in prison as well......thats their incentive and why they want to burn it all down....no government no accountability!
16/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
This program itself is pretty harmless.
The red flag, however, is that it's possible Shaotran was hired by Musk due to this project because he already had some domain knowledge in the voting machine space for this project/program.
17/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Look at that. Shaotran already knew Musk when he was building the ballot software program.
They built the program for a hackathon (at Georgia Tech) that Musk sponsored.
18/40
Shigeyo @shigeyo.bsky.social
'(he) knows 'those vote counting computers'...'
Politico (1/20/25)
19/40
jane12350 @jane12350.bsky.social
Sounded like a confession to me!!!
20/40
Shigeyo @shigeyo.bsky.social
yup, to me, too.
21/40
Eileen... Left @edcarroll.bsky.social
if only they could get into the polling places on election day and get access to the machines...
what to do, what to do??
Lawsuits, bomb threats and a Capitol arrest: Live coverage of Election Day snags
22/40
donkeyfarrier.bsky.social @donkeyfarrier.bsky.social
Explains why he wobbled around the stage to music for 40 minutes instead of taking questions.
He knew he didn’t have to.
23/40
Mase B @masonbrwn.bsky.social
My feeling that night in the pit of my stomach, was that something odd was happening. The numbers came in too fast, and too overwhelming and the win is too perfect. Especially when you factor in the bullet ballots. Ballots only filled out for 1 person.
24/40
grandad43.bsky.social @grandad43.bsky.social
Swing states that used StarLink to upload their results were easy targets. Many Red States used StarLink too. Results: another illegitimate "win" for the treason weasel Trump!
25/40
girlshane.bsky.social @girlshane.bsky.social
Why were they using starlink at all? I thought that was mainly for use in areas w/o the ability to access traditional internet services? The only people I know that use it are RVers and overlanders.
26/40
alwayscorrect.bsky.social @alwayscorrect.bsky.social
The vote tampering is something I really started to suspect after yesterday's revelation about the little DOGE hacker and it just keeps making more and more sense. Wired or ProPublica needs to check this out and put out a big story. A strong public reaction is our only hope!
27/40
LeftistRadicalWarrenAntifaBuddy @libyauprisingar.bsky.social
Also, here is a little DOGE hacker parody for you.
28/40
56whodoyouknow.bsky.social @56whodoyouknow.bsky.social
Did anyone notice how panicked trump was before Elon joined his campaign? He knew he would lose to Kamala .Now we know why he relaxed.
29/40
diamondlifeca.bsky.social @diamondlifeca.bsky.social
They fukking cheated. Bullet Ballots.
30/40
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
Bizarre to me that in 2020 the election wasn’t stolen and MAGA organised an insurrection and in 2024 increasing evidence suggests the election was stolen (even from Trump’s mouth) and Democrats do nothing.
31/40
hellomyself123 @hellomuself78.bsky.social
Maybe the Ang’s will look into this. New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) Just Security (@justsecurity.org) Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com)
32/40
Renee Cascada
@cascada57.bsky.social
did you mean to say he won it in 2020?
33/40
jamesfowleroxox.bsky.social @jamesfowleroxox.bsky.social
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) I'll bet you've seen this
34/40
wigglywag @wigglywag101.bsky.social
The man (or psychopath) who routinely falsely accuses people of doing what he is actually doing himself, accused his opponents of stealing elections.
When Trump points a finger, he is actually pointing at himself.
35/40
wafflewolfer.bsky.social @wafflewolfer.bsky.social
Every accusation is a confession.
36/40
Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
Fascinating … this may explain why he’s musk’s go to: Aligned: A Platform-based Process for Alignment
37/40
Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
“We need a new approach to democratically align AI. We
are introducing Aligned, a platform for global gover-
nance and alignment of frontier models, and eventually
superintelligence. Over the past few months, we’ve
been working with OpenAI through their Democratic
AI Grant [1].
38/40
Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
We need a new approach to democratically align AI. In this paper, we’ll detail our underlying
motivations, process, and initial findings. You can find
the Aligned public report on the Energize site1 and
open-sourced code on OpenAI’s GitHub2
.
In 1776, the United States embarked on a novel
task:
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
a constitution committee convened to develop
a constitution to guide the nation. We are at a similar
inflection point. Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
must align with the values and interests of the general populace.
40/40
Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
Accordingly, its development will need a
similar constitution to govern, inform, and steer it in
important scenarios [2]. Building on the democratic
processes of the past 4 centuries, how do we:
• Collect inputs from a broad population of people,
akin to a constitutional committee…
Denise Wheeler
I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went
This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers
2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon
But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof
Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....
2/40
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
They describe BallotProof as a methodology built for faster, smarter, and more secure validation of ballots.
But you only have to dive into the script to know what it really does.
This is the link to the Devpost page, detailing the progam & all the tools used
BallotProof
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You have to ask why was a team of four 18-19 yr olds looking that closely at ballots?
And why in the world would they need to make a program like that?
You can look up BallotProof on github, see all the files, and know why.
Here's the link to the test files: test – Google Drive
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You can see that it appears to be a Python script that programmatically creates a series of synthetic ballot images (two pages per ballot) with random variations, then logs information about each generated image in a text file.
In essence, it’s simulating “filled-out” ballots.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
But the issue isn't the BallotProof Tool they built. It's the https://[U][URL]https://generate.py//[/URL][/U] program that by their own words can:
"The generation script (generate.py) enables the generation of semi-randomized ballots that fit certain satisfiability criteria."
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
So they can take any blank official ballot and auto generate any amount of Marked ballot images that can fit any statistical criteria they want.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Just remember, at election time it's the count of Ballot Images that are tabulated & not purely the paper ballots themselves.
So what else do you use a function tool like this for, if you don't also have access to actual ballots?
Actual ballots with proofs/watermarks etc?
Here's that answer:
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You only have to dig a little deeper to see that they have this script, used to create test ballots.
ballotproof/generate.py at master · DevrathIyer/ballotproof
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
There are 160 example ballots that were generated in the 'test' folder of the git repository.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
There's also a folder of artificially generated ballot images from Maricopa County.
test – Google Drive
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
You basically see that this tool they built could be used to invalidate ballots in bulk.
Machines could do it during initial scanning instead of later on, or on custom metrics.
Just set the machines to count less blue ink ballots and instruct democratic areas to use blue pens.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
It was 2020 that he came up with the ballot program, not 2000
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Lilith @lilithgnosis.bsky.social
this got me thinking...they say ballot machines are safe bc not connected to the Internet, but they don't have to be if a program like 'Clear Ballot' is a Trojan horse. Not saying it is, but we are dealing with Nero-level bad guys.
'Just too easy to hack’: Elon Musk claims voting machines rig elections, calls for paper ballots - The Times of India
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Lilith @lilithgnosis.bsky.social
Trump Makes Odd Remark About Elon Musk’s Familiarity With Pennsylvania Voting Machines
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ilidiocarmona.bsky.social @ilidiocarmona.bsky.social
Musk said if trump doesn't win he will go to prison......and you know if trump lost that election he would end up in prison as well......thats their incentive and why they want to burn it all down....no government no accountability!
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
This program itself is pretty harmless.
The red flag, however, is that it's possible Shaotran was hired by Musk due to this project because he already had some domain knowledge in the voting machine space for this project/program.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Look at that. Shaotran already knew Musk when he was building the ballot software program.
They built the program for a hackathon (at Georgia Tech) that Musk sponsored.
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Shigeyo @shigeyo.bsky.social
'(he) knows 'those vote counting computers'...'
Politico (1/20/25)
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jane12350 @jane12350.bsky.social
Sounded like a confession to me!!!
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Shigeyo @shigeyo.bsky.social
yup, to me, too.
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Eileen... Left @edcarroll.bsky.social
if only they could get into the polling places on election day and get access to the machines...
what to do, what to do??
Lawsuits, bomb threats and a Capitol arrest: Live coverage of Election Day snags
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donkeyfarrier.bsky.social @donkeyfarrier.bsky.social
Explains why he wobbled around the stage to music for 40 minutes instead of taking questions.
He knew he didn’t have to.
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Mase B @masonbrwn.bsky.social
My feeling that night in the pit of my stomach, was that something odd was happening. The numbers came in too fast, and too overwhelming and the win is too perfect. Especially when you factor in the bullet ballots. Ballots only filled out for 1 person.
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grandad43.bsky.social @grandad43.bsky.social
Swing states that used StarLink to upload their results were easy targets. Many Red States used StarLink too. Results: another illegitimate "win" for the treason weasel Trump!
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girlshane.bsky.social @girlshane.bsky.social
Why were they using starlink at all? I thought that was mainly for use in areas w/o the ability to access traditional internet services? The only people I know that use it are RVers and overlanders.
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alwayscorrect.bsky.social @alwayscorrect.bsky.social
The vote tampering is something I really started to suspect after yesterday's revelation about the little DOGE hacker and it just keeps making more and more sense. Wired or ProPublica needs to check this out and put out a big story. A strong public reaction is our only hope!
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LeftistRadicalWarrenAntifaBuddy @libyauprisingar.bsky.social
Also, here is a little DOGE hacker parody for you.
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56whodoyouknow.bsky.social @56whodoyouknow.bsky.social
Did anyone notice how panicked trump was before Elon joined his campaign? He knew he would lose to Kamala .Now we know why he relaxed.
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diamondlifeca.bsky.social @diamondlifeca.bsky.social
They fukking cheated. Bullet Ballots.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
Bizarre to me that in 2020 the election wasn’t stolen and MAGA organised an insurrection and in 2024 increasing evidence suggests the election was stolen (even from Trump’s mouth) and Democrats do nothing.
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hellomyself123 @hellomuself78.bsky.social
Maybe the Ang’s will look into this. New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) Just Security (@justsecurity.org) Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com)
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Renee Cascada
@cascada57.bsky.socialdid you mean to say he won it in 2020?
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jamesfowleroxox.bsky.social @jamesfowleroxox.bsky.social
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) I'll bet you've seen this
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wigglywag @wigglywag101.bsky.social
The man (or psychopath) who routinely falsely accuses people of doing what he is actually doing himself, accused his opponents of stealing elections.
When Trump points a finger, he is actually pointing at himself.
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wafflewolfer.bsky.social @wafflewolfer.bsky.social
Every accusation is a confession.
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
Fascinating … this may explain why he’s musk’s go to: Aligned: A Platform-based Process for Alignment
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
“We need a new approach to democratically align AI. We
are introducing Aligned, a platform for global gover-
nance and alignment of frontier models, and eventually
superintelligence. Over the past few months, we’ve
been working with OpenAI through their Democratic
AI Grant [1].
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
We need a new approach to democratically align AI. In this paper, we’ll detail our underlying
motivations, process, and initial findings. You can find
the Aligned public report on the Energize site1 and
open-sourced code on OpenAI’s GitHub2
.
In 1776, the United States embarked on a novel
task:
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
a constitution committee convened to develop
a constitution to guide the nation. We are at a similar
inflection point. Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
must align with the values and interests of the general populace.
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Coop @cooprobbiani.bsky.social
Accordingly, its development will need a
similar constitution to govern, inform, and steer it in
important scenarios [2]. Building on the democratic
processes of the past 4 centuries, how do we:
• Collect inputs from a broad population of people,
akin to a constitutional committee…
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