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Okay, a bit about the electoral receipts (actas) in circulation in the Venezuelan election… These documents are designed to be easy to record and copy, annoying to alter, and checkable against other copies. x.com/GregEqEd/status/1820196173963223441
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Close to the root of the current distrust is that this simple mechanism, which should function in an open way, and be seen by many people. When it works, it works like this… x.com/CarwilBJ/status/1818296518413365349
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In the Venezuelan case, the whole thing is digital first, then printed on special paper with a background pattern, much like the way drivers' licenses are, to prevent after the fact alteration by making it visible.
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Every official present should have gotten their own copy, and each acta includes signatures of five such people, so one should be able to verify or falsify every acta by just getting those folks.
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If the opposition acta scans were falsified, there should be thousands of Chavistas who can come forward and demonstrate this is so.
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Now on the physical details… the scans are imperfect replica of these documents, so the security features aren't all checkable, but presumably someone is gathering the printed copies as well. Still, let me show you how annoying tampering is…

