Posted on 10/25/2016 7:17:42 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
This is the country that records your every word. Assisted by the social media this is your friendly Big Brother. But they can't come up with documents against their interest, or e-mails that Iran has, for years.
Fair minded elections officials should have suggested long ago that you be able to check your ballot online. There should be impartial commissions that allow voters to aggregate their votes to see if they tally with official results--Impossible? How do they tally the votes in the first place?
Any such facility would open your ballot to hackers and tampering, unfortunately.
I am a computer software engineer,
I could write a system that allowed voting with verification online
why can’t they?
(Rhetorical- I know they answer... because they don’t wantt to)
No freaking way!!! If you can check your ballot, so can your boss, your union, your guberment employer. Touch screen voting machines should be outlawed. Mark sense ballots are easily counted and recounted, should be universally used. Keep secret elections secret.
Votes are tallied using software developed by Soros. He not only owns the voting machines, he controls the counting machines. Soros has stated that Trump’s impending majority victory will be squelched by Hillary’s Electoral College majority. He should know. He is doing the counting.
> I could write a system that allowed voting with verification online
That’s not hard. It gets hard when one adds the requirement of a secret ballot. If I can verify who I voted for online, so can someone else.
I've seen a number of people asking for the ability to confirm their vote was recorded properly.
It sounds good, but there's a problem. And that problem is the reason why at least some states prohibit the issuance of a receipt or any other way to verify your vote was recorded in a certain way.
The problem: evidence of a vote can be used to suborn someone into voting a certain way. An example: a union official requires every member to go and vote for the Democrat, and show him the receipt -- or that member doesn't get any more jobs at the union hall.
I'm sure you can come up with other scenarios involving employer/employee or family members.
There have been proposals for open source voting systems that provide paper ballots that can be verified for accuracy at the time of voting:
But, I don't think you want something that can be verified afterwards, after the vote is cast. The opportunity for abuse is huge.
In a nutshell, this is the problem.
It's much more succinct than my post #7. :-)
In a world with computers, we should be able to submit a ballot vote with a picture and at the same time be cross checked for registration legality. It really should be that simple.
Here are the phone numbers (for each state) to report election fraud:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3484590/posts
This could be hacked to. Perhaps it could be coded in such a way or there is a separate database for audits to show the original vote of the user and not the counted vote... Just saying it can be a possibility.
Vote verification would lead to employer/union thuggery: “How did you vote? Show us!”
This year you are gonna have to wear red.
You don’t want to verify your vote by NAME
You get a scan code that is randomly generated and look up your vote by that number. Maybe a ‘tear-off’ at the top of a computer sheet you put into the machine
Your name would never be associated with that code.
The last time I voted they marked a number on my ballot, and then marked that number next to my name and I asked them what they hell they were doing?
You are correct. I can’t understand why people don’t see this.
The lack of ourcry about this from the RNC means they’re complicit. It explains their peculiar behavior regarding Trump. They’re just as corrupt as the dims and they’re terrified of prison. Or just losing their place at the trillion dollar trough.
And, once you have that scan code -- what will stop someone from demanding it as proof you cast your vote as instructed?
Paper ballots.
Paper ballots + bloackchain
blockchain
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