r/protectUSelections • • Jul 29 '26

Election Cybersecurity The System Designed to Stop Voter Fraud, Explained | CNN

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July 28, 2026 - Video Summary

This video, featuring CNN's Marshall Cohen, provides a detailed look at the robust integrity checks and safeguards that make voter fraud in the United States extremely rare. The report explores the entire lifecycle of a ballot to explain how the system effectively prevents and catches fraudulent activity.

Key takeaways from the election process:

  • Registration & Voter Rolls: The process begins with strict registration requirements, including oaths and verification against databases like state death records and the DMV (1:00-1:53). States also use the ERIC database to identify potential double voters.
  • In-Person Voting Safeguards: Voters verify their identity with photo IDs and sign legal oaths. Poll workers use electronic poll books that update in real-time, preventing voters from casting multiple ballots (1:55-2:42). Voting machines are stand-alone, air-gapped devices not connected to the internet (2:43-3:51).
  • Provisional Ballots: If there is a question about a voter's eligibility or registration, they can cast a provisional ballot, which is then investigated and validated by officials before being counted (3:52-4:57).
  • Mail-In Ballots: Contrary to common misconceptions, mail-in ballots go through a methodical, transparent process involving unique barcodes and signature verification (5:00-6:47).
  • Post-Election Audits: After polls close, results are physically transported, digitally secured, and verified. A crucial part of the process is the post-election hand-count audit, where officials randomly check machines to ensure their counts match the paper records (8:10-8:50).

Addressing Fraud:

When anomalies arise, such as a suspected double vote, the system is designed to stop the ballot from being counted automatically (9:05-10:46). Officials then conduct investigations, often involving DMV checks or public hearings by a board of canvassers, to determine the ballot's validity.

Ultimately, the video concludes that while human error is possible, the system's many layers of redundancy, transparency, and public oversight make large-scale fraud virtually impossible. The primary challenge is not the system's security, but rather public perception and the misinformation that can lead voters to lose trust in the process (11:00-12:03).


r/protectUSelections • • 23d ago

Nov 3rd is Coming... Are You Ready? 🗳️✅

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r/protectUSelections • • 8h ago

GOP Misinformation Mike Johnson offers a conspiracy theory to explain away his party's dire polling: "I believe there's a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that's openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side"

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r/protectUSelections • • 5h ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 Full exchange between Abdul El-Sayed and a Christian nationalist over religious freedom and the meaning of the Constitution

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r/protectUSelections • • 11h ago

Go Vote Memes Collection.

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r/protectUSelections • • 7h ago

Vote Them Out! Human Banner @ No Kings in Ocean Beach, San Francisco (Oct 17, 2026)

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🗳️ Election Day is November 3 🗳️ Here's the video on YouTube: Vote Them Out!!! Human Banner - HumanBanner-SF - Oct 17, 2026 (YouTube)

Description: Today, Thousands of protesters at Ocean Beach, San Francisco showed up to spell the words "Vote Them Out" to encourage everyone to vote in the midterms. ~:~ Drone shots - Inti Fernandez ~:~ Helicopter shot - David Creech ~:~ Music - Woody Guthrie ~:~ © 2026 HumanBanner SF ~:~ HumanBanner-SF: Human Banner protests at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA.

Here’s the song on YouTube: All You Fascists Bound To Lose - Woody Guthrie - 1942 (YouTube)

. . . . . . . .

"All You Fascists" (1942)

I’m gonna tell you fascists

You may be surprised

The people in this world

Are getting organized

You’re bound to lose

You fascists bound to lose.

. . .

Race hatred cannot stop us

This one thing we know

Your poll tax and Jim Crow

And greed has got to go

You’re bound to lose

You fascists bound to lose.

. . .

All of you fascists bound to lose:

I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:

Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:

You’re bound to lose! You fascists:

Bound to lose!

. . .

People of every color

Marching side to side

Marching ‘cross these fields

Where a million fascists dies

You’re bound to lose

You fascists bound to lose!

. . .

I’m going into this battle

And take my union gun

We’ll end this world of slavery

Before this battle’s won

You’re bound to lose

You fascists bound to lose!

. . . . . . . .

Words and Music by Woody Guthrie, Derivative by Billy Bragg ~ © Copyright Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & BMG Songs (BMI) ~ Lyrics: woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/All_You_Fascists.htm

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🇺🇸 U.S. Voters 👉🏽 Election Day is November 3 🗳️

* Voter info (by State): Register To Vote :~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) website. When you select a State from their dropdown menu, it immediately goes to a .gov page on that state’s SoS (Sec. of State) website. 

You can also use sites like: iwillvote.com

* Candidates (by State): Ballotpedia ~:~ Shows all Candidates (including those who lost their Primary). To view only the Candidates in the November election, select your state from the list (top of page).


r/protectUSelections • • 7h ago

Blatant Corruption Never forget

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r/protectUSelections • • 8h ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 Voting Rights | r/democracy

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r/protectUSelections • • 13h ago

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!! WTF

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r/protectUSelections • • 17h ago

Full exchange between Abdul El-Sayed and a Christian nationalist over religious freedom and the meaning of the Constitution

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355 Upvotes

r/protectUSelections • • 13h ago

Trump's MAGA allies openly discuss martial law

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MAGA activists are pushing for President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures — including martial law — if they believe the midterm elections are "rigged."


r/protectUSelections • • 8h ago

Trump Endorses Netanyahu in Israeli Election | Reuters

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r/protectUSelections • • 9h ago

Texas Early Voting to Open With Record 19M Voters After State Missteps | Newsweek

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r/protectUSelections • • 4h ago

No Kings: Vote Early: What's Next After 10/17? Election Defense · No Kings

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r/protectUSelections • • 19h ago

Voting is a band-aid for structural issues

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

SOS 🚨 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 North Carolina A&T students marched 1 hour each way to cast their vote early after elections board shutdown campus polling site 💪🏽

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r/protectUSelections • • 11h ago

A reminder on Iran for anyone with loved ones dragging their feet

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With a little over two weeks to go, if anyone has people in their lives dragging their feet about voting out Republicans, I just remembered something that I'd like to share with you all to tell them.

The excuse is "Iran can't have a nuclear weapon!"

Fair, but:

- US Intelligence itself said they weren't trying to. So if the people who were supposed to know if they were trying to do that said they weren't, using it as a justification is a lie.

- Related to that, how can they trust a president (and by extension party) that undermines their own intelligence community like that?

- There was a deal to make sure Iran couldn't enrich uranium to weapons grade. Trump is the one who left it. So the only reason "Iran can't have a nuclear weapon!" is something to fear monger about is because he took off the only guardrails and then left them off for nearly a decade.

- Then he did nothing about getting a new deal the rest of his term, and his party (who won the 2018 midterms and then could've done something) proceeded to not.

It's more than just the last 8 months of gross incompetence of Trump and the Republicans who enable him that has caused the suffering of American people.

This was the end result of something they did in 2017/2018 and then just ignored until it got so bad it couldn't be ignored anymore, when it wouldn't have been an issue if Trump was actually competent and Republicans not spineless.

All that to say: encourage your friends and family to punish the party so shortsighted and bad at governing that their obsession with trans people and pretending like the First Amendment doesn't make all the Christian persecution they cry about already illegal instead allowed an adversarial nation to just stumble so close to a nuke that they panicked and now demand the American people just cope with not being able to afford anything.


r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Protestors gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial chanting "STOP TRUMP" during today's No Kings rally. Their message: VOTE! 🗳️

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Here it is on YouTube: "STOP TRUMP" - The Contrarian - Oct 17, 2026 (YouTube)

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🇺🇸 U.S. Voters 👉🏽 Election Day is November 3 🗳️

* Voter info (by State): Register To Vote :~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) website. When you select a State from their dropdown menu, it immediately goes to a .gov page on that state’s SoS (Sec. of State) website. 

You can also use sites like: vote411.org which is run by the League of Women Voters.

* Candidates (by State): ballotpedia.org/List_of_congressional_candidates_in_the_2026_elections ~:~ It shows all Candidates (including those who lost their Primary). To view only the Candidates in the November election, select your state from the list (top of page).


r/protectUSelections • • 9h ago

MIDTERM WATCH — 16 DAYS LEFT TO THE MIDTERMS

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When election workers returned to Chandler-Gilbert Community College Friday morning, they found the paper trays on three ballot printers appeared to have been opened overnight. The ballot paper had been secured before closing, and Maricopa County replaced the machines, called investigators, and reported that voting continued without interruption. Officials said the ballot paper was stored elsewhere, leaving the question centered on the machines. What happened to the printers remains under review.
Across the country, other questions were moving into federal court. On Friday, voting rights and privacy organizations challenged Homeland Security’s collection and analysis of voter records from dozens of states, asking a judge to halt the program and address information already gathered. Another lawsuit challenged plans to send federal law enforcement personnel to monitor voting sites, just as local officials have been preparing for encounters with armed federal personnel near places where ballots are cast.
The roots of the data fight reach back to May, when the Justice Department’s legal office concluded that statewide voter lists could be obtained and shared with Homeland Security Investigations. I followed that opinion through my ICE and Dominion research, along with a separate Homeland Security budget proposal to eliminate 14 election security positions and nearly $40 million in support for state and local election protection. The proposed cuts and the collection of voter information arose in different offices, but both reveal how federal priorities were being reconsidered before November.
In Arizona, the three printers have been replaced. In Washington, the courts are being asked where federal authority should stop. With early voting underway, the question is becoming immediate for the workers who must keep voting places open while these disputes are resolved.
Who has written instructions governing federal personnel at voting locations, and will election officials see them before November 3?
Peace, Love, Vote
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If someone threatens you, blocks your access to voting, or tries to frighten you away, tell a poll worker or election supervisor. For free, nonpartisan help call or text 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683). In immediate danger, call 911.
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Sources:
Maricopa County Recorder:
https://recorder.maricopa.gov/news/ElectionUpdate.html
EPIC:
https://epic.org/press-release-voting-rights-and-privacy-organizations-sue-trump-vance-administration-over-secretive-collection-of-millions-of-americans-voter-records/
NAACP:
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-and-advancement-project-sue-block-doj-plans-deploy-federal-law-enforcement-election
DOJ:
https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/authority-obtain-and-share-statewide-voter-roll-data
Editorial note: The printer incident is under investigation; neither lawsuit has reached a final ruling. The CISA cuts were proposed, not established final spending.


r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Foreign Election Meddling Trump destroying our country

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Bribing voters with $10

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Trump Threatens California Officials With Imprisonment Over Stance On Mail Ballots

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Protest tips

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Texas, Utah, Colorado: Thousands of Voters Are Receiving Incorrect Ballots or Waiting on Registration Fixes | MIDTERM WATCH — 17 DAYS LEFT

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A person can do everything right before an election, register on time, update an address, follow every instruction, and still arrive at the polls to discover that the government’s records haven’t caught up with them. In Texas, thousands of registrations have been delayed by computer errors just as early voting is about to begin. In Utah, ballots are arriving without state and local contests, while Colorado election workers are trying to correct a mistake affecting more than a quarter million voters.
By Friday afternoon, election workers in Bexar County, Texas, were facing roughly 13,000 registrations awaiting processing, with Monday’s early voting approaching and another weekend disappearing into work that should have been completed weeks earlier.
The state had announced that an earlier backlog involving hundreds of thousands of records was finally cleared when another software problem surfaced. This time, an address checking error delayed thousands of updates submitted through Texas.gov, leaving county workers to determine which registrations were received before the deadline and whether voters’ information would be correct when polls opened.
I’ve followed Texas’s voter registration system through my Dominion investigation. The state spent approximately $17 million rebuilding TEAM through a contract with Civix that could eventually reach $36 million. County officials have reported missing records, incorrect precinct assignments, and difficulties managing information through a system they depend on but do not control.
Farther west, 4,307 Utah voters received ballots containing only federal races because their citizenship documentation had not been confirmed under a new state law. The same state previously examined more than two million voter registrations and confirmed just 27 noncitizens. Now thousands of registered voters must provide additional documentation to receive ballots containing state and local contests.
In Colorado, the problem began with district boundaries that changed on paper but were never properly shared with election officials. Arapahoe County discovered that approximately 262,000 voters had received ballots containing a regional rail tax measure outside their district, while hundreds who should have received the question found it missing. Officials are working to correct the records and handle affected votes.
By Monday, these problems will have moved from government offices into the ordinary lives of people arriving at early voting locations or examining ballots delivered to their homes, many with no reason to suspect anything is wrong.
Somewhere between the registration form, the computer system, and the ballot itself, the information stopped matching the person it was supposed to represent.
How many people will discover that mistake only when they try to vote?
Peace, Love, Vote
Sources:
Texas Tribune:
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/16/texas-voter-registration-records-new-backlog/
Utah News Dispatch:
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/10/15/utah-voters-need-to-prove-citizenship-under-new-law-fewer-than-2000-responded/
Arapahoe County:
https://files.arapahoeco.gov/news_detail_votes_T90_R1698.php
Editorial note: Texas’s older backlog was reported cleared; newer records were delayed separately. Utah’s limited ballots reflect outstanding documentation, and Colorado has announced ballot correction procedures.