[conspire] Stolen election narratives, CA edition

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo mail at webthatworks.it
Sun Sep 26 13:05:01 PDT 2021


On 9/26/21 20:34, Rick Moen wrote:

> Out of curiosity, how does Italy strike a balance in that area?  Ban
> use of cameras in the voting booth in theory but without meaningful
> enforcement of the ban?

As usual... pretending we do.

In the past people were actively participating more in politics.

Losing passion, interest to avoid frauds lacked as well
While historically bought/forced vote has been a real issue we've been 
aware and took countermeasures [1], the advent of mobiles didn't raise 
enough concern to improve correctives.

We have at least 4 (referendum) to 6 (elections) people checking for 
every 4 boots + optional registered parties members as observers.

Rarely all 4 booth are busy at the same time.

Design of booth may vary across Italy... but we've some simple and good 
design[2] that could make taking pics hard enough while still 
maintaining privacy to contain the phenomenon sufficiently not to be 
relevant.

[1] anything you do on ballot paper that would make your vote 
recognizable would make your vote null, anything you use except the 
pencil they provide would make your vote null etc...

[2] Imagine a booth as the one in the picture with a curtain that just 
cover a little bit above and a little bit below the plane you're going 
to vote on and no one can get near the booth.

Unfortunately one of the disappointing feature about this remedy would 
be it will kill one of Italy highest moment in democratic creativity... 
drawing obscenity and writing blasphemy on the ballot paper.
That's one of the few things that makes the work of scrutineers 
bearable, making elections probably less safe.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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