Yep, I can't argue with that math!
I just searched for whether NH governor Sununu has endorsed Bolduc's race for Senate. The answer is "yes". But the video is worth watching for a display of journalism at its worst (as a brain-dead narrative, where clearly nobody on the journalism team is allowed to do any critical thinking), plus how impossible the issue is for most of today's RINO politicians (and, yea, I do think Sununu is a RINO..he just reeks of sinecure).
Worth watching, imo: http://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/chris-sununu-don-bolduc-election-falsehoods-cnntv/index.html
I think the reason I brought this up is that we I believe we have crossed "the Rubicon" so to speak: ELECTIONS NEED TO HAVE MASSIVE INTEGRITY in order to win the confidence of the (losing) voters back. This issue is not likely to go away, and it cannot be ignored.
For 200+ years its been a "rumor", on and off, that this election or that election was stolen. I don't think it would be THAT hard to come up with a system, NOW, where elections could be trivial for each voter to, at least, audit their own vote.
"The system" (the Republic) needs to come up with an alternative which is way more individually verifiable than what we have now.
Thankfully, the "politicans" and other actors who haven't found it important enough to address before now can no longer (IMO) keep ignoring this.
What might that look like? Well, it starts with humiliating ANYONE who purports our system is "secure" ; anyone who purports that it can't be done better.
I suspect blockchain might finally have found something it is ideally suited for. Bitcoin may have a lot of failings, but lacking verifiable integrity isn't one of them. If the system as a whole was viewed as a series of bitcoin-like transactions, the system itself could clearly maintain its own integrity. That doesn't mean voters couldn't make mistakes; it doesn't necessarily mean that a ballot couldn't be stolen. It means that the claim of falsity, or the verification of integrity, could be audited and probably be kept audited REAL TIME (without having to do a forensic audit).
Anyway, that is one obvious thing to look into.
Simple paper ballots where you keep a copy of your vote for later, individual validation, would probably go a long way toward secure voting even without something like a blockchain system of voting.
Up until now approximately ZERO effort has been made to better secure vote integrity. It IS going to come down to that, eventually, or there is going to be no peace of anyone, and no "democracy" to wrestle over.
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