Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh Manic Mike… Tell me your don’t understand technology without explicitly telling me you don’t understand technology.

  • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t some sort of technical misunderstanding. This is pure horseshit and Lindell knows it too. Republicans know how stupid their base is, and that they don’t have the capacity to question brazen nonsense like this.

  • 30mag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why does the wifi sniffer need to fly? Couldn’t you just walk up to the polling place carrying a wifi sniffer?

  • sgo@lemmy.world
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    Ok, bear with me on this one: What if… what if the voting machines use Ethernet connections and not Wifi? 🤯😱

    • Kitty Jynx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He’s not even consistently good at that. I got one as a gift and it was really uncomfortable.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    Wifi sniffers = Russian malware Trojan horses to hack voting machines / tallying computers.

    That way republicans will have the irrefutable proof that those machines were hacked (while conveniently leaving out that republicans hacked it).

  • tabular@lemmy.world
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    Here’s a fucking simple solution: use paper vote. It’s difficult to fraud at scale.

    • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
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      It’s not about the voting method. These people want to invalidate votes they don’t like. Arizona Republicans went on a wild goose chase of looking for bamboo fibers in printed ballots which would “prove” they were printed in China.

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        From what I know about American politics I can believe their motive is to invalidate votes they don’t like instead of actually preventing election fraud.

        My suggestion of paper voting is a tongue-in-cheek recommendation for them to prevent election fraud because it would prevent them from being the ones to do it (at scale).

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Even simpler solution: don’t take claims of voter fraud seriously when it’s the mypillow guy.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    sounds like the police dog thing. you get the dog to bark for any reason and you’re allowed screw people over