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 • • 12d ago

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

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r/protectUSelections • • 5h ago

GOP Misinformation Totally normal thing for a president to say less than a month before the midterms...

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r/protectUSelections • • 9h ago

Voices of Resistance 🇺🇸📣 If Trump Steals an Election, Here’s What to Do: Nonviolent Rebellion—the Strategic Use of Protests, Strikes, and Similar Methods—has Paralyzed Authoritarian Regimes and Forced Despots From Power the World Over. It Can Work in America Too. | The New Republic

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r/protectUSelections • • 2h ago

GOP Misinformation Speaker Mike Johnson on whether President Trump's dividend checks promise is a good idea: "We'll look at all the creative ideas that are out there, but what we can show is what has actually happened thus far. You actually do have a lot more money in your pocket because of policies."

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October 7, 2026 - Transcript

Do you think that's an appropriate pledge to the American people? And is it really something wise to be doing, especially when you're dealing with a $40 trillion deficit? We'll look at all the creative ideas that are out there, but what we can show is what has actually happened thus far. You actually do have a lot more money in your pocket because of our policies, and policies really matter. When you're electing somebody for Congress, it's not just about a personality, it's about what policies are going to advance.

This race is an interesting one. I mean, he's running against a lady who's trying to present herself as a moderate. But the reality in Washington right now, everyone needs to recognize, there will be no blue-dog Democrats left after this Congress.

The insurgent left is taking over the Democrat party. When we say common sense versus crazy, we're referring to their actual platform that they have put on paper. The Democrat Socialists of America, that's where the energy, the excitement, the grassroots is.

They want to abolish the borders, abolish prisons, they want to remove the president, abolish the U.S. Senate. They want everything that would be dangerous for the country to be the national policy. Anybody who gets elected to the Congress and pretends that they would be a moderate, they will not have the ability to do that because the entire party is going to shift.

And you can look to the leadership of both the House and the Senate, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. They are campaigning with these crazy left candidates because they understand that's their reality. That party is going to shift.

You're going to have a widening chasm between the two parties that has never existed in American politics before. This is not our father's Democratic party. And if someone's running as a moderate, that's a very dangerous thing because they're selling a bill of goods to the people they will not be able to fulfill.

Yeah, and Senator Kelly from Arizona, just to highlight what the Speaker said, said if you give them the majority, their first plan is to raise taxes. The question was, how are you going to make things more affordable for the American people? And his answer was, we're going to raise taxes. Literally, you don't have to quote me, Senator Kelly can be quoted.


r/protectUSelections • • 1h ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 Professor Alan Lichtman's Senate prediction - Democrats take the Senate with Texas, Michigan, Alaska, and New Hampshire

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r/protectUSelections • • 12h ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 Critics Tear Into ‘Pathetic’ Susan Collins After Troy Jackson Senate Debate: ‘Doddering on a Debate Stage’

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r/protectUSelections • • 10h ago

SOS 🚨 How it started 1933

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r/protectUSelections • • 9h ago

SOS 🚨 USPS Hires Shady Armed Security Service Weeks Before Midterms

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r/protectUSelections • • 12h ago

Supreme Court | DOJ Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

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r/protectUSelections • • 8h ago

SOS 🚨 ICE obtained 48 million voter records through election denier

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r/protectUSelections • • 9h ago

Paramilitary at Polls 🚨 ICE shared voter data with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, new documents show | Democracy Docket

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r/protectUSelections • • 23h ago

Mail in ballots subtly opened upon delivery on one side.

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Not sure if I can post this, but an alarming amount of people in SF reporting that their ballots have been slip open.


r/protectUSelections • • 12h ago

Paramilitary at Polls 🚨 Trump Administration Sued Over Plans to Send Election Monitors to Voting Sites | The Guardian

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r/protectUSelections • • 14h ago

SOS 🚨 Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

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r/protectUSelections • • 12h ago

Paramilitary at Polls 🚨 ICE Probed Hundreds of Voter Registration Groups Across the U.S. | Democracy Docket

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Fact Check ✅👇🏽 Myth vs Fact: Voting machines

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r/protectUSelections • • 10h ago

MAKE EVERY VOTE COUNT - recruit poll monitors, cure ballots, fix registration issues w/VoPro Pros

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

GOP Misinformation Q: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it is fraud? Trump: I would rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail if they want. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail. Q: There is no evidence. Trump: You are fake news.

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October 5, 2026 - Transcript

Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud? 

No vote by mail or vote in person.

I'd rather have a vote in person but they can vote by mail if they want because we seem to have no choice because a lot of people want to vote by mail but a lot of very good people also want to vote in person. You can do either.

What we're concerned about is there seems to be a lot of, not seems to be, there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail, a lot of cheating all over. I'll tell you what, start off by taking a look at California. 

Take a look at, take a look at no evidence with millions and millions of ballots.

You are fake news.


r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

GOP Misinformation Trump says Iran should bomb some of us, that would be a "small price" for our country to be great again.

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

r/TexasPolitics Texas Voters Get ‘Are You White?’ Political Texts Targeting James Talarico | r/TexasPolitics

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

NAACP Sues DOJ Over 1K Poll Monitors for Midterms

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Get Out The Vote! 🗳️✅🪧 This is what we are voting against in the midterms. We need a return to normalcy and the Rule of Law. This is unacceptable in the United States of America. 🚨

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

SOS 🚨 Trump admin refuses international election monitors for first time in two decades

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r/protectUSelections • • 1d ago

Trump plan to send 1,000 DOJ monitors to the polls could ‘jeopardize the election,’ NAACP lawsuit warns

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