Yeah, I don't know if I'm being a bit scatterbrained about it but I'm trying to impress on people that counterfeiting a ballot is not something that is done easily, in fact it's even harder to counterfeit than money. They can't just whip them up inside of their homes with their printer. Did no one think it was odd that the DHS always finds these things, and they do it so quickly that the ballots were probably discarded barely more than an hour or two ago? You never see stories where someone finds ballots weeks after the election or that have been sitting out so long that half of them are mush, they find them so quickly that the paper isn't even wrinkled, yet.
Every election they throw the switch and keep an eye on the markers. The Department of Homeland Security keeps track of the specific isotope used to mark the ballots, and if any of them start to move unexpectedly or wind up stagnating in an area they are not supposed to be, the DHS sweeps in and rounds them up. That's why you never hear about boxes being found in someone's attic for the 2018 midterms in 2020, or why no matter what obscure fucking place they try and hide the things, they're always tracked down so quickly that half the time they catch the person in the act.
That isotope changes every election and I'm willing to bet solid money that most people have no idea this technology even exists. If the resulting lawsuits from this produce even one fraudulent ballot that doesn't possess the marker, there's going to be trouble. The overall point I'm trying to make is that someone sitting at home and cackling while they mass-produce ballots from their 1998 Inkjet printer isn't something that can happen. Well, it is, but they'd spend a very, very considerable amount of time talking to the DHS from behind a wall made of iron bars.
It's some legitimate future shit and it's actually really fucking cool, I thought people might get a kick out of knowing about it.
