In PA at least the mail-in ballots require an external envelope with a pre-printed barcode that encoded your voter id. So that was scanned to verify the voter, and that the voter had not already voted, before the inner unmarked envelope with the ballot was opened and the ballot counted. so that is pretty secure.

that discussion was about votes made and tallied without paper, entirely on computers. Everyone came to their senses a decade ago. the actual practice is to either computer count human-marked ballots, or print out the selections and count those. In either case the paper documentary evidence of the ballots is preserved, just as we argued on Slashdot should happen.

their goal was achieved. it was not to overturn the election, they full well knew that wasn't going to happen - because they are lawyers. the goal was to shape public opinion.

the state of Georgia disagrees and confirmed their electoral vote, as prescribed by the constitution.

and yet

the states themselves validated their votes
No state "unvalidated" their electoral votes
according to the Constitution it is the business of the states to validate their votes, which every single one did. There is not standing of one state to invalidate another state's vote for them.

and most importantly:

no republicans ELECTED ON THE SAME BALLOTS disputed their own seats, and were happily sworn in.

the issue is that people are remarkably sloppy in marking ballots, and people are notoriously error prone in counting them. research shows that machine counting is less error prone. this is proven by banks, who count a lot of money and are scrupulous about it, and use bill counting machines not hand-counts because it is more reliable. (not due to fraud - because people are error prone)

the status of signatures is irrelevant to the question of the voting machines. The voting machines correctly counted the votes that were fed through them. Other claims of fake ballots and related nonsense is also irrelevant to discussion of the voting machines. NO ONE has brought forward any claim or evidence that the machines miscounted the ballots that were fed through them.

Not illegal in the US. The charge they are trying is as a co conspirator to get the information, not the actuall publishing.

I'm in the upper class and the only battle that interests is the level of Amazon and Google stock prices. And for the adventurous among us Bitcoin prices.

They put the backdoors in so they wouldnt go to prison. That is to say governments pay them to have them. The same people who advocated the clipper chip and key escrow.

Or because they are paid to put backdoors in so the same people who wanted clipper and key escrow can access the equipment.

I doubt more than 10 cars per year are stolen this way. High value cars are stolen with flatbed trucks.

there are many safer alternatives to acetaminophen, for example naproxen, ibuprofen and others do not have the same liver toxicity.

It is the leading cause of liver failure in the USA. Close to 70% are related to acetaminophen. It is doubtful that it could get approved today.

Doesn't lint tell you all those things?