TL;DR (but I did read it) - this wasn't an attempt to 'rig' the election or confuse voters. It was done as a rather clever protest of our flawed electoral system and the need for electoral reform. It would be patently obvious all of the other 87 or so names on the ballot were all protest entries and would only take a person about 10 seconds to find PP's name or the few others with official parties on there.
I saw them at a coffee shop in Field, BC a few years ago and asked the owner about them, as I thought at first they were maybe pasta or some kind of starch-based bioplastic (the holder was just labelled 'biodegradable straws'); they felt just like a good sturdy plastic straw. The ones I saw were translucent beige, but websites I find them on show opaque green straws so I don't know what the difference is there.
It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.
As someone once said, to paraphrase, "He has made his ruling, now let him enforce it."
What powers does the United States Marshal Serviceactually have? And does anyone there have the will to uphold whatever oaths they swore to fulfil their duty?
After all that has occurred already, so many lines drawn, then crossed, without consequence... I am skeptical.
Good questions, and important that we crowdsource verification of this. I saw some other posts on bsky that other people have received these emails, suggesting it is not a single instance. Implication is that it's a new automated effort, perhaps "by AI", to intimidate people en masse. But it could be fake, so the more examining it, the better.
I was trying to sound the alert that this might be a thing -- BUT if it turns out to be fake, please by all means shout to the hilltops that it is bunk.
TL;DR (but I did read it) - this wasn't an attempt to 'rig' the election or confuse voters. It was done as a rather clever protest of our flawed electoral system and the need for electoral reform. It would be patently obvious all of the other 87 or so names on the ballot were all protest entries and would only take a person about 10 seconds to find PP's name or the few others with official parties on there.