Mike Lindell is going to stop voter fraud with WMD-equipped drones

[thewayne]

In this case, the WMD stands for Wireless Monitoring Device and is attached to the drone with velcro. And he's going to fly them over polling places to check for WiFi hotspots.

Let's see how many problems we can spot with this scheme. Feel free to chip in.
First, most consumer-grade drones have a battery endurance of less than an hour.
Second, pretty much all smart phones have WiFi hot-spots built-in. So be sure to change your phone's SSID to DemocratDirtyOps_217 before going to vote.
Third, a private citizen conducting mass surveillance on his own?
Fourth, there are over 116 THOUSAND polling places in the USA.
Fifth, how many polling places are open for early voting?
Sixth, how many operating person/hours will operating all these require?
Seventh, how many polling places are covered in restricted air space of one form or another?

I think we can take #4 off the table as he'll probably ignore states like New Mexico which isn't remotely an important state. He's probably concerned about polling places in places like Phoenix.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/wi-fi-sniffers-strapped-to-drones-mike-lindells-odd-plan-to-stop-election-fraud/

Idiots gotta idiot.

Comments

[acelightning73]

That won't work in a densely populated area like NYC. When I lived in the city I would always have to stand in a line for half an hour or longer in order to vote. And NYC always votes Democratic - that's why Texas keeps sending us refugees. They send them to cities that vote heavily democratic, because all of us bleeding-heart liberal Commie democrats will take tender care of all these losers who walked from Panama to Texas

As Lady Liberty cries with silent lips, "Send me, your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless tempest-tost to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door." And when politicians ship their immigrants to cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles to be housed and cared for.
How is that legal, for Texas to just load all the refugees onto buses and send them off to be some other state's problem? Why can't the mayor of NYC shovel all the inmates in Rikers Island onto buses and send them to Texas? Those tough guys in Texas would make short work of a bunch of New York junkies. (And it would clean out Rikers, which should be renovated and made more secure and humane.)

[disneydream06]

I was going to say, what a massive idiot, and then I decided to change that to, What a Massive Asshole.
OMg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A complete and total embarrassment to Minnesota. :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon

[kathmandu]

What does he even think wi-fi signals would be proof of? People use their phones while waiting in line!

[thewayne]

He believes the tally or voting machines are connected to the internet and that votes or counts are being altered real-time. He is an idiot.

[disneydream06]

UGH... He still has a good sized "store" at the Minnesota State Fair and people are still spending money there. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thewayne]

Power of advertising, and mass delusion.

[disneydream06]

And proof that Minnesota is not blue enough any more. :o :o :o

[kaishin108]

oh jeez, that guy is so whacked!!

[acelightning73]

Furthermore, most of New York City is under various types of flight bans. Some came from an accident where a sightseeing helicopter flew too low, and the tourist weren't using seat belts, the choppper fell in the water while landing and sank and everybody drowned. And some came from people mis-using drones.

[thewayne]

Yep!  Pretty much all of core NYC would be completely off-limits.  As would DC.  Areas around major airports like LAX.  Military bases where towns have grown around them.

[silveradept]

Let's add a few more:

• There's no reason to believe that voting machines would use Wi-Fi as their Internet access method. It's still significantly slower than wired connections are. So these flying drones probably wouldn't catch anything.


• Even if they did use Wi-Fi, what makes you think they're going to be broadcasting anything that a consumer device is going to pick up? C'mon, have some imagination. If you're fighting the supposed Deep State, they're supposed to be smarter than than, right?


• Most early voting doesn't take place in person, at least in states that still allow early voting, so those drone devices won't be able to spot any secret connections there, either.


But, of course, the point isn't to try and discover widespread voting fraud. The point is to try and intimidate nonwhite voters in key areas into not voting through the threat of surveillance and then stochastic terrorism if someone decides they're too "suspicious" to have been a legitimate voter. And the threat of "WMDs" is, I'm sure, not an accidental initialism.

[thewayne]

Thank you for the additions, they're good ones.  Yeah, with private SSIDs, that thing is pretty useless.  It's only if they are open, non-hidden SSIDs that they'd pick up anything.  I have 4 or more semi-dead wireless routers in my house, makes me very tempted to rig up some interesting broadcasted SSIDs, with no passwords since they're not going to be connected to an outbound network, a bus power supply, and put 'em in my car when I go to vote.  Maybe leave 'em in my wife's car when she goes to work the election!

[silveradept]

Give them good names like "FBI Surveillance Van" or "Hugo Chavez Satellite Control Node" or something like it.