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David Noll
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Law prof and co-author of VIGILANTE NATION, coming October 2024: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
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remarkable example of Brandolini's law in operation

So as Pinal County officials prepare for another election with the former president on the ballot, they are trying to combat that distrust with radical transparency. Among their strategies:

Pinal County officials quickly built a $32 million election headquarters that more than quadrupled the previous space and has walls of windows so that more observers can more easily watch the vote-counting process. They added more cameras inside and out to create a trove of surveillance footage.
Election workers now strap GPS devices onto the cages that transport equipment and ballots to and from polling sites, creating a record of every movement. The need for this came after trying to disprove rumors in 2020 that a school bus filled with voting equipment had been abandoned in a nearby desert town.
The wiring for machine tabulators runs through see-through grates instead of behind drywall so that officials can prove that the equipment is not connected to the internet and possibly hackable, a popular false theory.
County leaders launched an outside review of the election and cybersecurity systems to “unequivocally prove the integrity" of the process after a Republican county leader raised doubts about the legitimacy of the July 30 primary. The outcome is expected in October.
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JJjarodjohnson.bsky.social

The Venn diagram of the people this is intended to placate and the people that constantly scream about their tax dollars being wasted is a circle.

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AMcullenskink.bsky.social

I didn't know the definition of Brandolini's Law before I read the attachments, but I was easily able to derive what it was :(

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CWcatwarr.bsky.social

Even if everyone in this scenario were acting in good faith (and we know election challengers generally aren’t) this would effort be doomed because you generally can’t “prove” your innocence, and especially when the accusers are not limited by having to offer evidence for their own claims

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MThamonwry.bsky.social

And it still will not be enough. "The GPS data was hacked!" "The surveillance camera footage is deepfaked!" Because if they lose, someone must have cheated, therefore nothing can be trusted. If they win, of course, "Behold the integrity and transparency of our voting system!"

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Jjayalltheems.bsky.social

That trembling in the earth? It's the goalposts moving.

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NKnathankalmoe.bsky.social

Surely THIS will be the thing that convinces Republicans that elections are actually valid. Spoiler: the problem is that they refuse to accept losing in relatively democratic elections, not that they doubt the process. The latter is just their excuse, which too many people accept as sincere.

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David Noll
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Law prof and co-author of VIGILANTE NATION, coming October 2024: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
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