I Still Can’t Comprehend Why We Need Sophisticated, Undocumented, Proprietary, Secret Computer Programs To Simply Tabulate Votes

Posted by Oppo on 24 November 2023, 6:00 pm

Voting Machine Company That ‘Flipped’ Votes in Pennsylvania Admits ‘Someone Programmed the Election’
Slay News | 11/08/2023 | Frank Bergman

A top executive from the company behind the voting machines that “flipped votes” in Pennsylvania on Tuesday has admitted that “someone from our team programmed the election.”

The voting machine issued caused votes in an eastern Pennsylvania county to appear to be “flipped” on a ballot question, officials said Tuesday.

Voters were asked to decide whether Pennsylvania Superior Court Judges Jack Panella and Victor Stabile should be retained for additional 10-year terms.

The “yes” or “no” votes for each judge were switched on a summary displayed to voters before they cast their ballot, said Charles Dertinger, the Northampton County director of administration.

If a voter marked “yes” to retain Panella and “no” on Stabile, for example, it was reflected as “no” on Panella and “yes” on Stabile.

Voters noticed the error on the printed voting records produced by the touchscreen machines.

The issue was brought to the attention of poll workers shortly after the start of voting on Tuesday morning.

During a news conference in Easton on Tuesday afternoon, Dertinger insisted that votes would be tabulated accurately.

“What you read and what the computer reads are two different things,” he said…

Bill Limiting Ballot Hand Counting in California Becomes Law; One County Pledges To Defy Statute
ABC News.com | 10/4/2023 | Nicholas Kerr

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation into law on Wednesday that will limit the ability of local governments to manually count ballots less than a year after one northern county’s governing board ditched its contract with Dominion Voting Systems and decided to tabulate results by hand.

Set to go into effect immediately, the law deals a blow to Shasta County’s conservative-majority Board of Supervisors, which voted 3-2 in January to cancel its contract with Dominion amid a flurry of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the company in the wake of the 2020 election, leaving it without a way to conduct elections for a time.

In response, state legislators introduced and overwhelmingly passed AB 969 in September, which allows hand-counting under narrow circumstances: during regularly scheduled elections in places with under 1,000 registered voters and special elections with fewer than 5,000 voters. It will also block counties from canceling contracts for voting systems in the future without a transition plan and a finalized agreement for a new state-approved system.

and:

Nevada secretary of state stands by ban on hand-count of mail-in ballots

Fox News | Nov. 5, 2023

California Governor Newsom signs bill to limit hand counts in elections
KRCR | 10/04/2023 | Adam Robinson

A Very Sad Commentary on 21st-Century America

Posted by Oppo on 24 November 2023, 5:00 pm

Note to self: Don’t be a street-corner preacher in Arizona.

Christian Preacher Shot in the Head While Preaching in Arizona
endtimeheadlines.org | 17 November 2023

A congregation is in shock after a beloved religious leader was shot in the head while preaching on a Glendale street corner on Wednesday night. He has life-threatening injuries.

It happened on the northwest corner of 51st and Peoria Avenues around 6 p.m. Friends say Hans Schmidt was standing with a megaphone, preaching the gospel to people passing by, something he’d apparently done countless times before.

Only this time, someone pulled out a gun and shot him. Friends and family can’t understand why. “Who knows why someone would want to take it out on a preacher like that because he’s speaking the gospel and good news to everybody.

“He’s out to help the community,” said Henry Branch, who lives nearby. Schmidt also helps lead weekly services at the Victory Chapel as the door director.

Door director?

Paul Sanchez works nearby and said when Schmidt was out preaching, some people drove by screaming and cursing at him. “There was a lot of everything, really, hateful comments, people yelling at him, ‘get off the street,’ all sorts of mean things,” he said.

Sanchez never imagined things would escalate, especially since he says Schmidt never confronted anyone or responded to the mean comments.

Larry Dettman was at services at the church on Wednesday night when the pastor announced what happened. Minutes later, the pastor ran off the hospital to check on Schmidt.

“Out of nowhere how does this happen? There’s some real evil in this world, bunch of human junk in their life and they take it out on somebody else,” said Dettman.

He deserves to be remembered.

What’s Walrus building?

Posted by walruskkkch on 24 November 2023, 4:00 pm

Honestly still working on the Tiger but no progress made. Having a little difficulty with exhaust system which has two bends in it which makes it impossible to get it to stay attached in certain places. I’ll have to go to the old stand by, gluing the problematic connections. Sadly so time the Lego blocks just won’t stay locked.

I have not been indolent on the buying front however. Besides the motorized Tiger and Panther I already have waiting there were sales galore between Cobi and Warbricks so I now also have waiting to go another verson of the Panzer III Ausf J., a British WWI Mark I Male tank, Panzer IV AUSF. G and the Battleship Bismark. That hopefully should last me to spring or another sale. Who knows.

Previous Builds

Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: ‘mouse’) was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed, the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured by advancing Soviet military forces. This vehicle was also built to compete with the Soviet heavy Kliment Voroshilov tank. These two prototypes underwent trials in late 1944. The complete vehicle was 10.2 m (33 ft) long, 3.71 m (12.2 ft) wide and 3.63 m (11.9 ft) high. Weighing 188 metric tons, the Maus’s main armament was the Krupp-designed 128 mm KwK 44 L/55 gun, based on the 12.8 cm Pak 44 towed anti-tank gun also used in the casemate-type Jagdtiger tank destroyer, with a coaxial 75 mm KwK 44 L/36.5 gun. The 128 mm gun was powerful enough to destroy all Allied armored fighting vehicles in service at the time, with some at ranges exceeding 3,500 m (3,800 yd). The principal problem in the design of the Maus was developing an engine and drivetrain which was powerful enough to adequately propel the tank, yet small enough to fit inside it – as it was meant to use the same sort of “hybrid drive”, using an internal-combustion engine to operate an electric generator to power its tracks with electric motor units, much as its Porsche-designed predecessors, the VK 30.01 (P), VK 45.01 (P), and Elefant had. The drivetrain was electrical, designed to provide a maximum speed of 20 km/h (12 mph) and a minimum speed of 1.5 km/h (0.9 mph). However, during actual field testing, the maximum speed achieved on hard surfaces was 13 km/h (8.1 mph) with full motor field, and by weakening the motor field to a minimum, a top speed of 22 km/h (14 mph) was achieved. The vehicle’s weight made it unable to use most bridges; instead it was intended to ford to a depth of 2 m (6.6 ft) or submerge up to a depth of 8 m (26 ft) and use a snorkel to cross rivers. The Maus was intended to punch holes through enemy fortifications in the manner of an immense “breakthrough tank”, while taking virtually no damage to any components.