When I see “Jim Hoft”, I don’t bother reading the article.
Technology…. Voting the way the programmers program. Ain’t technology grand !
During the recent French elections voters were shown marking paper ballots which were put in little envelopes and then put into a transparent ballot box. Ballots are hand counted with multiple observers. Even President Macron voted that way in his Paris district. If the French can manage an election this way why not in the UD
To anyone who had actually programmed for a living, yes computers can do just about anything but walk on water. For our systems here in PA they design the ballot and the scanner/counter matches the design. the ballot changes after every election twice a year, obviously. Best practices and auditing can handle any of these issues, but in many cases are not performed at the election commission or DOS levels. And again the fraud is not by the big bad scanner counting machine but a person a programmer. software compiled hash codes can verify if all software matches. and it should. again. people can commit fraud all along the way. with out audits and best practices you can’t stop them. And Bookvar and the people at DOS in PA resisted the mandatory audit of the SURE systems which clearly outlined problems with the people updated the voter roles. The audit proved that the DOS is incapable of carrying out an election.
Is this not just another facet (or similarity) to the so-called ‘ballot adjudicating’ that went on in the last election?... I recall a presentation particularly about this in Antrim, MI where the machines were set to intentionally generate a huge number of ballot errors.... which then forced those ballots to be transferred to ‘adjudication’ where there was no oversight or audit trail.
Richard Baris if you are reading this please tell us your take on the Wyoming Voting situation in tomorrow’s primary election? I heard there’s some really scummy stuff going on that might end up giving Cheney a victory by a hair. Heard mail in ballots have been cooked and that 11,000 democrats have switched to republican who have already voted for her via mail in ...What do you think? Please need input!
In a blockchain system each voter could take a tear-off strip from their ballot, for example, with a unique identifier. After voting they'd be able to use the ID to look up their vote in the (ongoing or completed) election system to see that their vote was in fact registered and is being counted accurately for each contest. Since no one else would have the identifier it would be completely private, and the overall results on the blockchain would be transarently auditable, not just by formal auditors but by the general public.
Paper ballots, or quit bitchin’...
We might have to all write in Trump’s name just to prevent this next steal.
A sort of the ballot image data store by the hash# would make a reasonable gross audit check.
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