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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/TheShadowCat • Mar 05 '25
Monthly Recap Thread
Use this monthly thread to recap or talk about the major events this month related to the election, keep this on topic about the election itself.
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/someonesoldersisiter • 2h ago
News President Kamala Harris describing exactly what would happen.
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/StatisticalPikachu • 6h ago
Action Items/Organizing IF YOU THINK 3 MILLION PEOPLE WAS A LOT, JUST WAIT FOR OUR NEXT CHAPTER. Save the Date: April 19
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/blankpaper_ • 14h ago
Shareables Some signs from today
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Getatbay • 7h ago
Speculation/Opinion 1 out of 3 posts in the last 24 hours that have reached the top of reddit, have been about the protests. Reddit never listed it as a trending topic.
The only social media platform that I’ve checked that didn’t have it as trending. Something is wrong.
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/dogfooddippingsauce • 23h ago
Speculation/Opinion This great account gets it:
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/smss59 • 2h ago
Speculation/Opinion Trump can’t handle the truth
Trump violates America, America protests, Trump goes golfing. Is he being protected by his handlers or he really this vile?
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/InverseNurse • 1h ago
News Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ex husband filmed yelling racist slurs in Swastitruck
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/shobijatoi19 • 13h ago
News Incredible scenes from a massive anti Trump protest in New York
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/blankpaper_ • 22h ago
Hopium US protests are being covered on German news
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/shobijatoi19 • 12h ago
News Interesting posters from anti-Trump protests across the United States.
galleryr/somethingiswrong2024 • u/captainshar • 23h ago
News 3.1 million and counting at Hands Off protests worldwide!!!
3.1 million and counting participants, worldwide, in today's Hands Off protests!
Alt National Park account on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lm3thjuax22q
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/SuccessWise9593 • 3h ago
News Anti-Trump protesters gather in Washington, other US cities
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/No_Clue_7894 • 2h ago
News British tourist detained by ICE for 19 days warns against all US travel
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Wonderful-Bid9471 • 1h ago
News Elon planning Hackathon at the IRS with Plantir
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/No_Clue_7894 • 21h ago
News Elon Musk stealing from children
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/shobijatoi19 • 23h ago
News Damn Boston I wasnt familiar with your game
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Ok-Confidence9649 • 12h ago
Speculation/Opinion Did You Know? On 3/21/24, a Princeton election expert & 19 others warned of hacking vulnerability in touch screen voting machines used in Pennsylvania & other states.
“The continued use of computers to mark ballots on behalf of voters, as many counties do, is a “disaster waiting to happen,” Princeton University computer scientist Andrew Appel told the Pennsylvania Senate’s State Government Committee March 18.
Appel, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, is a leading researcher of computer voting and has testified before the U.S. Congress and in several states about steps to improve and secure voting systems.
As part of Monday’s testimony, Appel delivered a letter signed by 20 computer voting experts that makes recommendations for securing systems and ensuring fairness and integrity. The letter addressed general issues and focused on systems that mark ballots for voters. These ballot marking devices are used in more than a dozen states including Georgia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
While emphasizing that there is no evidence that anyone has used the security vulnerabilities of computer-marked ballots to sway an election, Appel said, “I strongly recommend that Pennsylvania change to hand-marked paper ballots in all counties and limit the use of touchscreen voting machines to those voters who cannot mark a paper ballot by hand.”
Appel explained that in the early 2000s many states and counties started using touch-screen machines to record votes, but experts quickly sounded the alarm that these fully automated systems made hacking all but impossible to prevent or detect. After 2008, many jurisdictions changed to paper ballots, which could be checked in a recount, but many areas still required voters to use a touch-screen device, which in turn, marked a paper ballot.
“When the voter uses a touchscreen voting machine, a “ballot marking device”, to create their paper ballot, then a hacked computer program can print votes onto the paper ballot that are not the candidates that the voter chose on the touchscreen,” Appel said. Experience has shown that a slim minority of voters carefully check their machine-printed ballots for accuracy.
In Pennsylvania, 14 counties are using touchscreen ballot-marking devices for all in-person voters, Appel said. “Now is the time to replace that equipment in those counties,” he urged the committee.
The text of the letter’s executive summary is included below. The full text is posted on Freedom to Tinker, a blog hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.
Suggested Principles for State Statutes Regarding Ballot Marking and Vote Tabulation
This letter, signed by 20 election cybersecurity experts, was addressed to the Pennsylvania State Senate Committee on Government in response to a request for policy advice, but it applies in any state — especially those that use Ballot Marking Devices for all in-person voters: Georgia and South Carolina; most counties in Arkansas, New Jersey, and West Virginia; some counties in Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Nevada, and California.
Executive Summary
We believe that the goal of laws, regulations and directives relating to elections must be focused on fairness, security, transparency, and accessibility. Each state should strive to approach the gold standard in every category, so that no reasonable candidate or party may have grounds to object that the process was unfair, insecure, or compromised. The process must be transparent, so the public may be assured the winners won and the losers lost.
We believe that no system is perfect, with each having trade-offs. Hand-marked and hand-counted ballots remove the uncertainty introduced by use of electronic machinery and the ability of bad actors to exploit electronic vulnerabilities to remotely alter the results. However, some portion of voters mistakenly mark paper ballots in a manner that will not be counted in the way the voter intended, or which even voids the ballot. Hand-counts delay timely reporting of results, and introduce the possibility for human error, bias, or misinterpretation.
Technology introduces the means of efficient tabulation, but also introduces a manifold increase in complexity and sophistication of the process. This places the understanding of the process beyond the average person’s understanding, which can foster distrust. It also opens the door to human or machine error, as well as exploitation by sophisticated and malicious actors.
Rather than assert that each component of the process can be made perfectly secure on its own, we believe the goal of each component of the elections process is to validate every other component.
Consequently, we believe that the hallmarks of a reliable and optimal election process are hand-marked paper ballots, which are optically scanned, separately and securely stored, and rigorously audited after the election but before certification. We recommend state legislators adopt policies consistent with these guiding principles, which are further developed below…”
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/RolyPolyGuy • 2h ago
News ICE Raid in Omaha, Nebraska
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/OtherwiseCan1929 • 23h ago
Hopium Noooo...there was no cheating!
Yet tens upon tens of thousands of people are showing up protesting today in MASSIVE crowds!! My hat is off to everyone that is out there!! Thank you!! ❤️
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Kittyluvmeplz • 17h ago
Speculation/Opinion Top comment on a French TikToker’s video mention’s EI
I will link the TikTok video in the comments, but this French tiktoker mentioned in her “Message to Americans” video the potential election interference
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 1d ago
News 3 in 4 Americans don't feel better off under Donald Trump
r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/GuaValubaDubDub • 1d ago
News Trump posted a video on Twitter claiming that the U.S. had targeted and killed Houthi fighters, but a local Yemeni journalist reports that innocent civilians who gathered to celebrate Eid were bombed instead and that the official narrative is a lie.
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r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Theory_of_Time • 1h ago
Action Items/Organizing If you text SIGN PDAQFT to 50409, it will send this letter to your members of Congress in regards to the unconstitutional attacks on transgender people in Montana
Please help me out by adding your voice. Thank you very much.
This is the content of the letter:
Long before Montana became a state, Indigenous communities recognized and honored Two-Spirit individuals—people embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. These individuals often held esteemed roles as healers, matchmakers, and warriors. For instance, among the Kutenai people, Kaúxuma Núpika was a Two-Spirit person who embraced a male identity upon returning to their community and took a wife. This person was revered as a leader and healer, illustrating the respected position Two-Spirit individuals held in their societies.
In the early 20th century, Sammy Williams lived and worked in Manhattan, Montana, as a cook and ranch hand. Williams lived as a man, and it was only upon his death in 1908 that he was discovered to be assigned female at birth. His life reflects the longstanding presence of transgender individuals in Montana's history.
Despite this rich history, recent legislative actions in Montana have sought to marginalize transgender, intersex, and Two-Spirit individuals. For example, Senate Bill 458, passed in 2023, sought to define "sex" in state law strictly as male or female, based on reproductive characteristics. However this law was struck down, on the basis that it "literally erased some Montana residents from existence.”’
Comparatively, in 1930s Germany, the Nazi government promoted a rigid binary understanding of sex and gender based on their biological theories. They criminalized anyone who did not conform to traditional male or female roles, erasing them from legal recognition.
The Nazi regime labeled transgender people as threats to public morality. One of their methods of control was to strictly segregate public spaces, such as bathrooms, policing who could enter based on their biological sex as defined by the state. This regulation of public spaces aimed to maintain what they considered "purity" and "order" within society.
Comparatively, many of our Montana state representatives voted in favor of House Bill 121, which mandates that individuals use restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters corresponding to their biological sex at birth.
The Nazis censored art, literature, and performances that challenged traditional gender norms or were deemed immoral. Drag performances and queer art was labeled as "degenerate" and banned from public spaces, as they were considered a corrupting influence on children and society.
Comparatively, many of our Montana state representatives voted in favor of a bill that explicitly targets drag performers. This bill was presented as a way to protect children from inappropriate content.
Transgender, intersex, and two spirit people have been in Montana longer than any of these law makers. And yet, our lawmakers have decided for them that their identity doesn’t deserve to exist. If you ever wanted to know what you would have done in Nazi Germany, you only need to look at how you vote now.