Posted on 11/04/2014 8:35:02 AM PST by fruser1
Just voted in Fairfax county.
Machine takes ballot and simply indicates that I voted.
It doesn't provide any indication of how it actually scanned my ballot so as far as I know, I could've just voted for Dr.Doolittle.
Sounds like good potential for electronic voting fraud here.
Electronic voting machines will be the downfall of The Republic.
At least they have a physical ballot to go back to that doesn’t have any doubt on how you voted, i.e. no hanging chads.
same here in NY and i specifically asked how do I know the machine is tabulating my votes correctly..
I’m also in VA. The electronic voting machines in our area will give you a final summary of all of your selections(votes) before you submit your ballot. Did you not get that screen?
I don’t know whether they use the same machines state wide. Before 2004, we still used the old mechanical machines where you flipped switches and pulled a big lever. Votes for Eisenhower were probably cast on those machines. LOL
In Ohio, I can read a paper tape that pages through each corresponding display ballot page, so I can verify the final, although, no one really knows what was stored on the chip card handed to the poll worker.
I thought that too but you still can’t tell how it was counted.
If going electronic, they should have results online.
Say you’re assigned a number when you get there. Something like a polling place number concatenated w/a sequential number.
Have them publish all results online so you can not only check how your vote was counted but you can tabulate the votes yourself.
Would actually be easy to do though you’d need enough servers to handle the load. That’d be a bit pricy, but worth it. I think the integrity of the vote is essential to freedom.
If ballots don’t count, there’s only one way to stop tyranny.
So, it’s either ballots or bullets.
We have to get back to voting by hand with the blue finger finish. As long as there is a chance for fraud the Marxists will attempt it.
Seriously?
Not every thing is a fraud conspiracy. Good grief!
If we are to go by every breathless report on FR, the Democrats will win every race for House and Senate and have a 100% majority.
No, in fact I saw another post w/a screen shot of what you describe.
Mine was not a machine where you enter votes on screen. I filled out a paper ballot and put it in a machine that scanned it.
I’m in Colvin precinct, which is associated w/the following:
Cong dist = 010
Sen = 031
HSE = 034
Local = Hunter Mill
Allowing women and non-landowners/non-business owners/non-taxpayers to vote has been the downfall of The Republic.
I almost posted the same thing! It’s horrifying!
The touch screen machines retain no record outside of the digital output which is downloaded by a single company and is manipulable in a central location. George Soros apparently has an interest in the single company which "counts" the votes so the touch screen vote count is what he says it is. There is no recount actually possible. The machines are wiped clean when downloaded and the initial programming can be set to register Democrat when the voter inputs Republican. A proficient or properly instructed programmer can program them to show to the voter that his vote has been properly registered while actually registering a different choice. The multiple instances so far of the screen reading "Democrat" when Republican is voted indicates lack of attention to detail on the part of the programmer. Most such fraud will not give itself away on the screen.
I learned recently on FR that most of the touch screen machines have been retired as overage. I only hope that the ones still in use are all or mostly in hopelessly socialist states like Massachusetts or California where all possible efforts will be made to manipulate the vote count anyway.
Yeah, seriously! Trust dems to NOT commit voter fraud? Seriously?!
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."
Joseph Stalin
The reliability of these machines is about the same as paper votes dropped into a box. The accuracy depends on the counters and the result is open to recount. When fraud is challenged in court the challenge may not be successful but the shenanigans of the fraudsters usually become visible and obvious as they twist and stammer while covering their burros, even if not correctable.
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