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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/1820196173963223441Permalink On twitter.com
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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/1818296518413365349Permalink On twitter.com
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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.Permalink On twitter.com
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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.Permalink On twitter.com
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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.Permalink On twitter.com
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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…Permalink On twitter.com
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To add change votes for a candidate, one must… 1. Change their vote count, in numerial and letter form (likely changing the centering of the latter) 2. Change the count of voters at top and bottom …On twitter.com
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… 3. Change the QR code, which embeds the whole results table 4. Change this checksum string to match up to the QR codePermalink On twitter.com
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