AENN The voter file is broken. Stop polishing it and rebuild it. By Christine Bish (Editorial illustration: The illusion of election security) Campaigns & Elections Article One exposed California’s favorite election trick: compare the signature on a ballot envelope with a signature already stored in the same voter record, then call the match security. Article Two is not another tour of the illusion. It is the fix. New Jersey Pulled Back the Curtain New Jersey has admitted tha

AENN Midterm Meltdown by Aaron Gentzler One of the top minds in Washington is out with a shocking new prediction… Jim Rickards has spent close to 50 years working at the highest levels of Wall Street… international finance and the U.S. government. In that time, he’s built a reputation for making calls that first seemed crazy – yet proved to be correct. Back in the summer of 2008, he warned of a “major market meltdown.” And very few people believed him. Yet within weeks, $8 tr

AENN Temperature of a Spark from Metal in a Microwave A microwave‑induced spark is not a single “fixed” temperature — it’s a plasma channel that can locally reach several thousand degrees Celsius, but the surrounding metal and air are usually far cooler unless the spark is sustained. Why the spark forms When microwaves (2.45 GHz) hit metal, they reflect and can concentrate electric fields at sharp edges or thin points whysciencedaily.com+1. This concentration can ionize the a