Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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and I'd say well maybe they should be, this one. And yet still I think it's political prisoners. Like I have two opinions that don't even fit together. Yeah they might be actually violent people and they're also just political prisoners. I can't help it. I'd love to tell you that I have a consistent opinion but I don't. Those two things don't fit together and yet I hold them both as truths. So I…

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s a year. But we should be working toward it. If you think it can be done of course it can be done. Of course it can. It's not, I mean conceptually it's not even difficult. I just told you how to do it. All you need is for people to be able to track their vote.

Now the only thing it would catch is fake votes, right? Am I right? The only thing you wouldn't catch is a fake vote. But could you engineer a solution to that by randomly querying people who voted to find out if they're really the real person? So you'd have to have two ways to look. One to make sure that if you are a real person who voted that your vote got registered the way you wan

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ted it to. But secondly if there are votes that are fake people that you can randomly, not all of them but randomly, you can query the real person and say your vote was registered, did you vote? I feel like it's doable and I think Joe Manchin might be the only person who has enough power to make it happen. Stick that in there as a requirement by 2024 you have to have a fully auditable system or w…

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