Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
I&#x27;m finding the response people are having to this mail in voting thing to be...puzzling.<p>It&#x27;s <i>not</i> a ridiculous thing to wonder about how susceptible mail in voting is to fraud, and it seems like some of us are putting blinders on simply due to our distaste for the current president.<p>If we were to hold a hackathon with a $100,000 prize for the most plausible path to exploit mail in voting in order to swing an election, are people implying that there would be no entries?  Or maybe no viable entries?  That&#x27;s ridiculous.<p>Here&#x27;s some spitballing: (eh, I removed this.  I don&#x27;t think brainstorming how to committ election fraud is a good idea.  I&#x27;m assuming that readers of <i>hacker</i> news can probably figure out some relatively obvious ways of casting doubt into the outcome of a mail in election)<p>How are people looking at what recently happened with 100s of millions of dollars of fraud being committed against various US unemployment systems, and not thinking that other systems might be at risk as well?<p>Remember the Iowa caucus?  That was a hastily put together vote <i>reporting</i> system, not even meant for tallying, and look at what a disaster it was.  Now we&#x27;re expecting that states will radically alter their voting system, in 5 months, and that it won&#x27;t be vulnerable to interference?<p>To be clear: I LIKE mail in voting.  I have permanent mail in voting status in my state (Arizona), and my wife and I usually get breakfast at our favorite restaurant and spend HOURS meticulously researching every candidate and BI on the form.  Being able to take that amount of time is fantastic, and a luxury I wish everybody could have.<p>But it doesn&#x27;t have to be so polar.  I like mail in voting, obviously, but I&#x27;m not so stupid as to think that it cannot possibly be criticized.  I am a <i>hacker</i> after all.<p>Boo to twitter for this.  This is twitter obviously putting their finger on the scale of an election, and after all of the drama surrounding the idea that foreign actors might have purchased a few 10s of thousands of dollars of facebook ads, I&#x27;d hope that Americans would have a distrust a company where foreign entities have a major stake doing such a thing.  Not acceptable in my opinion.<p>Just to highlight my point a little further: here is an article from the nytimes highlighting that mail in voting is far more vulnerable to fraud than in person voting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;as-more-vote-...</a><p>Here’s a quote from the article:<p>&gt;Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show.<p>and another:<p>&gt; Election experts say the challenges created by mailed ballots could well affect outcomes this fall and beyond.<p>And another:<p>&gt; The trend will probably result in more uncounted votes, and it increases the potential for fraud. While fraud in voting by mail is far less common than innocent errors, it is vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting<p>So who is to be believed here?  Twitter?  The New York Times?  Why aren’t the experts from this article being listened to?