The Trump Thread

[EricHiggin]

Zkuq said:

Jimbo1337 said:

It’s also worth looking at the scale of what we consider a threat to our elections. Back in 2016, a major focus was placed on the 26 Russian nationals indicted for trying to influence the election, and there was broad agreement that we needed urgent action to protect our system from foreign interference. If 26 foreign nationals warrant national concern and policy shifts, then nearly 400 non-citizens actually casting ballots through a state system failure is a vulnerability we shouldn't dismiss just because the number seems small. Security should be consistent, whether the vulnerability comes from foreign hackers or domestic software glitches.

I don't know the details well enough to comment in further detail, but 26 individuals trying to affect the outcome can definitely sway way more than 400 voters if the know what they're doing.

That's true, but if you don't take those 400 seriously because they're 'small' internal problems right now, then you're just asking for that problem to get worse as time goes on, and how large does the number have to get before it's a serious enough threat to crack down on?

All you need is for the numbers to get high enough, along with just the right candidate, or better put, wrong candidate to win, just once, and that could be utterly devastating to the point of game over.

The point is if you know you have stage 1 cancer, you don't wait until it reaches stage 4 before doing something about it. Unless you want everything that would come along with that...