Bob Braico

Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Executive | AI Enthusiast | Former Big 4 Partner

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@natbrunell

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Thank God we have a written constitution and the First Amendment.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The politicians imprison people to hide their crimes

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@GovPritzker Your confiscatory policies are driving people out in droves and now you're taxing crypto BALANCES just because they exist. Just awful governance.

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@NeilJacobs

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@TFTC21

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@CoinDesk

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions into law including transfers between personal wallets, with the Crypto Council for Innovation calling it "the most punitive digital asset tax in the country."

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@brian_armstrong I live in Illinois. I’ve been telling my children we won’t be here much longer and encouraging them to get out. Worst run state in the union. Absolutely corrupt. This pales in comparison to the property taxes but it’s just one more insult.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

here are some facts about California. some of this is hard to believe.

first of all, it's important to understand the concept of "ballot harvesting," which is perfectly legal in CA. this refers to a situation where someone completely unaffiliated with the voter can collect and submit their ballot for them.

this flow is completely legal:

- a homeless person arrives in LA, where they are eligible for cash assistance, SSI, food stamps, healthcare through medical, and an array of other taxpayer-funded services
- they are registered to vote by an NGO (many such NGOs exist and explicitly do this).
- they do not have to provide a residential address or any proof of residency to vote. they only have to provide a mailing address, which can be anywhere (church, NGO HQ, homeless shelter). their home address can be "a park" or "an underpass".
- their ballot is mailed to the homeless shelter (or whatever address the NGO elects for them)
- the only verification done for the mail-in ballot is "signature verification" and uniqueness (only one vote per person is counted theoretically).
- the signature can be an X. if they register with an X, they can sign with an X. that is sufficient to pass verification. signature verification is also deliberately loose. the signature does not have to be a perfect match.

now consider the hypothetical scenario, which is fraudulent, but virtually impossible to detect:

- a homeless person cycles through the LA system. they get registered with their mailing address listed as the NGO HQ or homeless shelter
- they "sign" their registration with an X or nondescript, easily replicable signature
- they disappear. never seen again. or they exist, but it doesn't matter. they don't get purged from the voter rolls for 4-8 years typically.
- the address where they registered receives their ballot for several cycles
- operatives are aware that they have X amount of votes to make up. they fill in X many thousand mail-in ballots themselves. the ballots are manually postmarked (permitted). they forge the signature to match whatever signature (could be an X) was submitted upon registration
- ballots can be accepted even if they are postmarked at 11.59 pm. polls closed at 8 pm. (you would need an accomplice who is a USPS employee)
- the only fraud checks are de-duplication (if the homeless person through some miracle voted in person, only one of their ballots would be counted) and signature verification
- because very few of the homeless people in question would have voted in person, this gives NGO operatives tens of thousands of possible mail-in ballots to submit unilaterally.

the big problem is that there is NO way to detect this type of fraud. NGOs that register homeless people to vote exist. that isn't a secret. ballot harvesting is fully legal. voting by mail is encouraged. signature verification is as loose as possible. de-duplication doesn't solve anything, since few homeless people vote in person. and no one in power locally is going to spend political capital on rooting out such fraud, since they are all wholeheartedly committed to "voting rights".

in a situation where fraud is undetectable, the absence of hard proof of fraud is not evidence that no fraud exists.

Raman has gained around 20k votes since election night. She is around 3k votes ahead of Pratt now.

there are over 72 thousand homeless people in LA county.

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

Ben Franklin said democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting for what to have for lunch. Let’s have the bottom 60% pay no taxes. Then the government can raise taxes as high as it wants and still get elected. Let’s give most of the electorate less reason to care what the federal government does. Great idea.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

If you have API keys in your code, even private repos, now is the time to double check and change them...

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@saylor Sending a message to the Senate Banking committee on the clarity act? 535 seems like an interesting number.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed it will

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@elonmusk It’s not the party it’s the populace. The American people don’t care about the debt and deficit. They just want their stuff and the parties deliver.

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@YALiberty @CaitlinLong_ You missed Illinois in your F category.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Bernie “First Class” Sanders flying to 1 of his 3 homes.

Fight the Oligarchy!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Caveat emptor

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@GovPritzker, I saw your post honoring lives lost in Minnesota—standing publicly, naming Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and laying flowers in their memory.

But where was that same compassion on January 19, 2025?

That is the day my 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed here in Illinois. She was innocent. She did not knowingly put herself in the middle of an ongoing law enforcement situation. She was not making a dangerous choice.

She was simply living her life—and it was taken from her.

You have never said her name. You have never come to where she died. You have never acknowledged her publicly.

And beyond that—you have never even responded to me.

I sent you a simple, non-political letter. Not for attention. Not for headlines. Just a father asking for clarity, for answers, and for understanding of the state’s position.

You never replied.

And now, in the wake of another tragedy here in Chicago, your public display of compassion elsewhere—while remaining silent about victims in your own state—feels deeply disconnected from the reality families like mine are living every day.

Instead, you continue to defend sanctuary policies that create the conditions where preventable tragedies like hers can happen.

This is not about politics. It’s about leadership and accountability.

When you choose to publicly mourn some victims while remaining silent about others—especially those lost under policies you support—it sends a message.

Whether intentional or not, it tells families like mine that our loss does not matter the same way.

So I am asking you directly:

Where is your compassion for my daughter? Where is your acknowledgment of victims here in Illinois? And when will you take responsibility for the consequences of the policies you defend?

Say her name: Katie Abraham.

Stand where she died. Show the people of Illinois that every life matters.

[Bob Braico @BobBraico]

@elonmusk I spent 25 years auditing processes and systems as a CPA and big 4 partner. Elon is spot on. There is no verifiable audit trail with no ID and mail in ballots. The process is intentionally designed to be un auditable.