Posted on 06/05/2018 9:21:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
I worked the polls yesterday. A number of individuals found that their names were missing from the poll books (they had been there previously). We also had a registration list of all voters in the district, and their names were on it. We gave them provisional ballots.
Later in the day I looked over the list and found the reason. In New Jersey only Republican, Democrat or unaffiliated are recognized. Unaffiliated must declare a recognized party to vote in any primary. The individuals in question were listed as Libertarian and Green party. The Ls took R ballots; the Greenie took a D ballot.
So it appears that they are simplifying the books by leaving out the irrelevant voters. But by taking an R or D provisional, I assume they are declaring for that party. You can’t change parties at the polls, but if unaffiliated you may affiliate. Since those other parties are not recognized, those voters, I assume, are considered unaffiliated.
When I ran that past the borough clerk she was as confused as the rest of us!
Our machines are NOT connected to any phone line, internet link or anything outside. Each machine, when first turned on in the morning, prints out a "zero proof" which shows any votes in the machine. If it is not all zeroes, we are to call the board of elections and not use that machine. It has never happened yet in our district, and I've not heard of it happening anywhere else.
So the only way a machine can be "hacked" would be at the warehouse in which it is stored between elections. Two machines per district, and hundreds of districts would require hundreds of RAT operatives working the warehouses to jigger the machines. Highly impractical, though not impossible. But there would have to be a few non-RAT techs who would expose the violation if they saw it.
Bottom line- I believe that they want to go back to paper because it is simpler to cheat by swapping out boxes or bags of ballots and "losing" or "finding" them, or adding additional markings (overvotes) to invalidate those that go against them than it is to jigger machines.
As BOR used to say, Where am I going wrong?
Absolute and scary B S you write!
I think no one with more than two functioning brain cells would wish for that, but sooner or later, something gotta give. I hope I am wrong, but we shall see.
“The Dems just HATE free and fair elections.”
The Dems AND about half the voting population of the United States. It’s the AND part that is the most troubling in the long term. This will not end well or peacefully, unless that AND half can be reduced significantly.
Old time Democrat voter suppression, aka ballot manipulation.
Oh, and I forgot counting votes "creatively".
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