Does someone have any information on the following:

[Baitball Blogger]

I read on a post on DU that Starlink was used to upload or download voter registration information. Does anyone know what states that involved?

Because, we all already know about the 600,000 bullet ballots.

Could there be a connection?

[Irish_Dem]

1. The election was a crime scene and the evidence is obvious.

If it were a murder scene the suspects would be easily identified and arrested.

[onenote]

2. What do we really "know" about the "600,000 bullet ballots" other than that its a very dubious claim.

I'll ask again, as I have many times the last couple of days: can someone explain how there could be 350,000 "bullet ballots" for Trump in North Carolina when the total number of votes cast in the presidential race in North Carolina is only around 88,000 more than the total number of votes cast in the Governor's race? And a couple of other questions: why manufacture 600,000 bullet ballots in 7 swing states, with 350,000 of them in just one states? Why manufacture bullet ballots in swing states rather than manufacture ballots that show votes for more than one repub candidate -- did whoever allegedly did this not want the repubs to flip Senate seats in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada? Finally, where on the official state election websites does one find information from which you can determine the number of "bullet ballots" cast?

I'd really like to see answers to these questions and so should anyone repeating the unsubstantiated, at this point, assertion that there were 600,000 bullet ballots.

[yardwork]

8. I have to agree.

There is anecdotal evidence of some voters not caring about anything but voting for Trump, and I can see how that could be true. People so disaffected by politics that they literally voted only for Trump, leaving the rest of their ballots blank, as a big middle finger to "the establishment." I'm reasonably sure some people did that, but I doubt it was 600,000.

If I saw evidence that 600,000 people did that I would suspect fraud, but I don't see that evidence. It's a rumor.

[usonian]

3. Merrick's on the case. Or is that the carton?

[Silent Type]

4. Snopes: "No Evidence Musk's Starlink Network Was Used To 'Rig' 2024 Election"

Election officials in swing states said vote-counting systems are typically on closed networks with no connection to the internet.

Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network was used to tally swing state votes during the 2024 election, allowing him to "rig" or "hack" the election in favor of Trump. UNFOUNDED

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-starlink-2024-election/

[jmbar2]

5. Marc Elias did a segment on that as well

He debunks it as a conspiracy theory.

[Silent Type]

7. Thanks. Don't know much about Elias, other than he seems to be trusted on DU. Hope folks listen.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. It's bullshit. Don't follow that rabbit down the hole.

How's that?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories

I have been active in voter protection since 2004. I have been an election judge on several occasions and have been a poll watcher for the central counting tabulation room. The voter check in systems are hooked to the internet to check voter registrations and to code the paper ballots as to what elections are to be voted on by that voter. The machines where the voter make their selections and mark the paper ballots and the machines that tabulate these votes are not connected to the internet. As an election judge, we had to put up all of the machines other than the machine that tabulates the vote. Those machines were hand transported to either a designated drop off place or to the central election office where the machines were given to the machines that further complied the vote. There was a paper trail when we drop off the machines at either location.

I agree with these election experts

Link to tweet

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-election-starlink-musk-steal-trump-38757341656d4f44243076d6356cb68b

Here’s a closer look at the facts.

CLAIM: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk used his internet provider Starlink to steal the 2024 election for President-elect Donald Trump.

THE FACTS: These claims are unfounded. Election officials, including from multiple swing states, told The Associated Press that their voting equipment doesn’t use Starlink and is not even connected to the internet. States have additional security measures to ensure that the count is accurate, according to experts. Election officials and security agencies have reported no significant issues with the 2024 race.

“It is not possible that Starlink was used to hack or change the outcome of the US presidential election,” David Becker, founder and executive director of The Center for Election Innovation and Research, wrote in an email. “This, quite simply, did not happen, and could not happen, thanks to the security measures we have in place, and these conspiracy theories echo other disinformation we’ve heard over the past several years.”

Becker further explained that the country’s nearly 10,000 election jurisdictions use a wide range of voting machines that are not connected to the internet while voting occurs and that nearly all votes are recorded on paper ballots, which are audited by hand to confirm the results of electronic tabulators.

“If anyone tried to interfere with the machines to rig the election, it would be discovered through multiple means, including reconciling the registered voters who cast ballots with the number of votes, as well as the audits,” he added.