Posted on 10/24/2014 11:20:25 AM PDT by xuberalles
I believe the biggest sources of voter fraud are one, poll workers, and two, the automated voting machines now utilized across America. Yes, as we all know, poll workers are human and vote too. Naturally in this supercharged era of divisive politics a number of these individuals are bound to be highly partisan. If some of these officials choose to give illegal immigrants (non-citizens) ballots, or they turn a blind eye as a fellow party members vote countless times - such as what recently happened in Arizona - who is going to stop them? If you've ever been to a precinct dominated by one party...and every state has them...you've overheard the inappropriate conversations or seen the unprofessional behavior by these so-called "independent" poll liasons. In 2012 several Philadelphia precincts actually sported Obama banners and memorabilia! What a shameful and unlawful display of favoritism. Therefore, my question is this; who is holding the poll workers accountable? Not every state uses video surveillance, let alone properly trained and trustworthy watchers. For those states that do, how many actually check every second of those recordings? It's become painfully obvious America needs a much more responsive, objective and universal set of protocols put in place to detect and deter voter fraud on a wide scale. Casually uncovering these crimes a year later does nothing to ensure the proper outcome of our elections.
If modernity has taught us anything it's that machines are as fallible, if not as dubious, as the people who make them. Case in point? There have been a number of verified reports, some by politicians themselves, claiming their vote was wrongfully changed to the other candidate. Honestly, electronic vote fraud doesn't even need to be this obvious. If a skilled mathematician, computer programmer, inserted an algorithm to wrongfully tally every 10th, 50th or 100th vote until "Candidate A" took the lead and remained there, who would actually know? Have you ever asked yourself who owns and operates these machines? What are their political affiliations and whose campaigns have they donated to? These are relevant questions every American needs to ask and deserves to know.
Critics will claim I'm suggesting people are incapable of being fair and nonpartisan. Not at all. I'd just rather not take their word for it when our country, my children's future is at stake. I'd love to believe we live in a world where honesty, the integrity of our elections, is at the forefront of everyone's concerns. Sadly, that is not the truth. Democrats openly encourage and invite voter fraud with senseless lawsuits and ridiculous victimization banter. Apropos, their party recently honored an Ohio woman who was convicted of fraud! How utterly repugnant and disgusting is that? For the life of me I cannot understand why all states do not require Voter ID, just like Mexico does, which is universally required to drive a car, cash a check, or attend the Democratic National Convention. If we cannot ensure the legitimacy of our elections, our greatest right and responsibility as free men and women, America has become nothing more than a third-world banana republic whose sole export is ignorance. As for me, I'd rather stand-up and demand the unconditional truth before I believe Washington and Barack Obama has our best interests at heart.
I was just doing some research into this subject. As I recall the old “calibration glitch” is not a new revelation.
You might be interested in this article I found on the subject: http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-11/how-i-hacked-electronic-voting-machine
It seems that creating these “glitches” is quite easy. With the help of the media no election is safe from fraud.
Given the stakes, the “win at any cost” approach of the Dems, their ever-present assumption of a permanently superior moral status no matter how achieved or derived, plus their all-out viciousness on so many topics, I don’t take anything nor any action off the table for them. I really don’t.
I’d require paper ballots and thumbprint or fingerprint next to name on voting rolls.
Until there is a formal process for validating them all, it is a laugh and the yoke is all on read USAians.
Do they even provide the ability to print out our personal selections. If there was, the paper could become part of the process. All printouts go to the voter who hands a copy of it in as they leave. At election end the paper trail is tabulated and compared to the automatic results.
It’s only possible because the media allows it.
Agreed. That’s a good idea.
That too. They could care less and encourage it by their endless reports claiming disenfranchisment.
Defitiely not new but disturbing they continue to exist. Regardless, it would be very easy for a skilled programmer to rig a machine without the proper checks in place.
Exactly.
Mention was made that the US, because of corruption and voter fraud, is devolving into a “banana republic”. I had the opportunity to go watch my wife, a citizen of Honduras, vote in last year’s presidential election in Tegucigalpa. It was a real eye-opener, and I can only wish the US had such a strict voting process.
Everyone in Honduras is required to vote in the precinct which is indicated on their government issued (free) photo ID card. Every citizen over 18 is required to have an national ID, and everyone with an ID can vote. No one else, and no one is registered as a member of a certain party, merely a citizen. My wife’s precinct is Barrio El Bosque, so she was required to go to the Escuela de 14 de Julio (local elementary school) if she wanted to vote.
When we arrived at the voting place there were hundreds of people milling around the street and a long line was waiting to enter. The entire scene was closely watched over by Army and Policía Nacionál to make sure order was kept. For the most part everything was quite orderly, and people were polite to each other even with the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. After showing ID, passing the guard and entering the school we went to the main table in the courtyard where they ran her ID through a computer and she was given a little slip of paper that indicated her name, her precinct, her “mesa” (voting area) and “linea” number (her number on the voter registration list). Every citizen is automatically registered to vote, and their name, Id photo and precinct number is on a list posted in that precinct.
The “mesas” in this case are rooms in the school, numbered in order to handle the hundreds of people waiting to vote. Her mesa was number 8586, so after finding the room, there was a list of all registered voters beside the door. She checked her line number with photo, 235, to make sure she is at the right door, the man watching the door checked her ID against the list, and let her in. She went to the table inside the room for a ballot, was checked again for ID and compared it to the info and photo in the registry, was given two ballots, one for president and one for congress, and this time they held her ID while she voted. I was allowed in as a foreign observer, but was not able to go near the voting booth, itself. Voting booths made of cardboard were set up on school tables for privacy, so after voting she deposited her ballots in the appropriate boxes, was given her ID back and we left.
I wanted to take photos but no cameras were allowed anywhere but in the street. No alcohol is sold anywhere in Honduras from Saturday through Monday, the day before and the day after election.
They take voter ID, and potential vote fraud, VERY seriously. All ballots are paper, and all have the candidate’s info and photo. There are eight official parties in Honduras, and the one with the most votes wins. The police and the army watch the voting very closely. One woman was caught with an extra ballot, and was immediately arrested. The Honduras news media, which is quite politically unbiased, indicated that both local and official foreign observers found only three cases of vote fraud in the entire country.
It was certainly an eye-opener for me! If this is the difference between a the US and a Banana Republic, then I’ll take a banana republic election anytime.
Wow. Thanks.
How ironic is it that many of these impoverished nations recognize the need to ensure the integrity of their elections, while we allow liberals to play politically correct games to ensure fraud? Unforgivable!
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