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@TuckerCarlson @JackMaxey1 @Timcast @JasonMillerinDC @SheenaGreitens @EthicalSkeptic @Timcast What are Trust, Enforced Trust, Provenance and why are they at the center of this election mess. It has to do with a failure to protect Provenance, whether intentional or accidental.

I hate to do this but you may or may not know me but I am a System Matter Expert on Provenance as related to Trust. I have consulted for the Justice Department, DHS, CIA, NSA, DOD and Treasury on Trust and Provenance and used to hold TS clearances.

We have designed our system to be secret but trusted. This requires guarded anonymous voting with the purposeful destruction of ballot provenance, by design. This is done for a reason, to avoid coercion while giving free access to the vote while still guaranteeing the count.

We guard provenance in steps. We do this by guarding functions. Part of the in person voting system can be used to explain this. It is not meant to be a comprehensive discussion of safeguards.

We usually protect these systems with locks, trust boundaries and guards. The manual system implements guards and boundaries. The locked ballot box is a boundary guard, the ID verification process is a Provenance guard.

They both have to be intact to bind trust. Ballot provenance is destroyed when the ballot goes into the box. The ID verification guards makes sure that the ballot is legitimate. It is not perfect, never has been, but it was difficult to introduce massive fraud before.

With Mail-in ballots several weaknesses are introduced. Individuals are subject to coercion in their homes. Secrecy is not protected, it could have been but wasn’t. Provenance is only as strong as the security of the delivery system.

Negative manipulation is simple. Collect ballots, destroy those you do not agree with. In relatively small percentages this might be difficult to detect. You could also intercept and replace but would have to escape secondary fraud guards.

In the end, Mail-in ballots are more vulnerable to manipulation. But remember boundary guards are also important. If what is happening in the receipt and counting process is not transparent and guarded on a multi-partisan basis, it simply fails the existing trust binding contract

Provenance is destroyed by the system to guard secrecy, but it also makes it impossible to fully audit the ballots. You can look at reporting statistics to raise reasonable concerns. There are many reasons to be concerned widespread fraud may be occurring.

1) certain precincts have removed bi-partisan trust guards or interfered with realistic oversight,
2) large disparities in voting ratios have been observed and should be explained, and
3) boundary guard processes were violated repeatedly.

Without provenance and without intact boundary guarding functions Trust Bindings do not exist. How do we restore them? The system must be redesigned, fundamentally. But most importantly, they have failed at massive scale in this election. Without provenance, it cannot be restored

Options:
1) let state legislators in contest areas select electors,
2) redo the election in whole or part with bipartisan and FBI oversight,
3) invalidate all ballots where guards failed,
4) extend the Trump Presidency for a year or two and fix the system, or others.

But let me make it clear, it is not possible to restore provenance or boundary guards retroactively. It will never be possible to trust this election’s results. We failed collectively and need wisdom to address this unless we want chaos to rule.

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