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Confirmation bias in action: accepting as true information that confirms your preexisting beliefs while ignoring information that contradicts them.

E.g. this article has information in it that refutes the idea that the voting process in CO is fundamentally broken; it describes aspects of their security-in-depth which show how a single vulnerability doesn’t lead to compromised election results. (Not to mention the auditing process which would also have to be fully compromised for the results of even fully hacked voting machines to be accepted.)




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