A court case demands that Georgia stop using voting machines that write the votes on ballots in a code that voters can't read if they try.

As explained here, devices like this create the possibility of a centralized fraud that would be hard to detect.

This case is not about any specific allegation of actual rigging. Republicans have used may efforts to rig US elections, including gerrymandering and voter suppression, and are continuing to do so, but this case is not about those methods. Facts suggested that a few US elections were rigged through voting machines around 20 years ago, but there was no proof.

[pol notes about those instances, or copy links from evoting.html if they are there]

Fraud can be committed using paper ballots too, and that has been done for centuries. However, a big fraud with paper ballots tends to be bulky and thus hard to hide.

*Canadian man who claimed wildfires were a federal conspiracy admits arson.*

That demonstrates the moral values of right-wing conspiracy thinkers in a nutshell. They treat their country and its people as "the enemy", and try to harm them both by any possible means.

Putin's official *accuses US of plan to meddle in its election.*

The first level of lie in this accusation is the assumption that Russia is free enough that its elections could be influenced. With all the meddling that Putin directs in Russian elections, there is no space for anyone else to meddle.

Meanwhile, people who criticize Putin are likely to end up in prison.

This sort of lie is typical of right-wingers. Whatever accusation could be validly made against them, they make it against their critics, because the truth is of no significance to them.

The UK's subsidy for fuel for fishing boats endangers fish from two directions at once.

*Pro-Israel Effort to Smear [University of Pennsylvania] President Started Well Before Oct. 7.*