Guys,
The voting machine calibration is doubtful... You must not only select your vote with a touch screen, but must then review your vote so if miscalibration caused the wrong name to be selected on the selection screen, even if you weren’t paying attention the review screen will show you what vote it took before you actually confirm your vote.
Could some folks not catch a 3 step process that asks you to confirm didn’t work? Perhaps, but not that many.
The R’s lost... they ran a terribly messaged campaign, never reached out to the not traditional R voters let alone the I and D voters who voted for Trump in 2016. Reality is this thing never should have been closer than 8 points, even with a lackluster candidate....
Even if you find a few hundred votes to swing it back to Saccone.. it doesn’t change much. The R’s completely choked and threw this race away.... Not the rank and file workers, they busted their butts, I know they did, but the leadership absolutely blew it.
9 months a new district has another election. Hopefully the R will have their damned act together by then.... because the messaging given in this race assures Democrats will retake the house easily.
Basic fact: when the Democrats show up in force, they often win. It’s complacency or outright disgust with the D candidate that is their enemy more than the Republican party. Hillary LOST more than Donald Trump WON, in my opinion, lots of Democrats stayed home or voted independent, this time the Democrat had charisma, a good story and rand a good campaign
Every loss is not a freakin’ conspiracy or stolen election, sometimes the other side just gets out there and does a better job of GOTV, or sometimes our candidate just isn’t as good at reaching the voters.
What is there to confirm the vote tally? The screen can show whatever it wants, but without paper backup, there is no way to validate the vote totals.
Electronic voting is tailor-made for fraud.
It doesn't matter what the screen say, it matters what the count says and it can say what ever they want it to.
Latest word is that Conor Lamb is already shopping around for a neighboring district which will be easier to win in November. It will depend partially on which redistricting map is eventually adopted, but he thinks the Keith Rofthus district (12th) would probably be easier.