Posted on 10/17/2016 1:04:57 PM PDT by blueyon
A mini-election test conducted on a random voting machine revealed frightening results – the votes were not counted correctly. One test voter was so shocked and upset, she broke down in tears.
(Excerpt) Read more at dennismichaellynch.com ...
“that Trump voters wear Red. Just sit back and count red. Match results with published results.”
That’s a good idea - I like it! I’ll try anything that might help a little. I’m posting it on Facebook and some of the Trump sites there. (All my FB “friends” are Trump supporters - if they weren’t, I dumped them a long time ago.)
Both individuals and organizations can do it.
bkmk
“how to we stop this? Can we demand all scanned votes have to be hand counted against the computer total to confirm they match?”
I absolutely think that at a very minimum, a random sampling of polling places MUST have the election workers/officials do a hand count to see if the results match. This would require that the workers are comprised of members from both parties, and in situations where such isn’t the case, that there are pre determined observers from both parties available to observe the hand count once the polls close and the process begins. I don’t think there is any other way to ensure the tabulators haven’t been compromised.
“how to we stop this?”
Only if Trump’s margin of victory is greater than the dems’ margin of vote fraud. And it’ll be massive this time, dwarfing ‘08 and ‘12.
“The Republic has been dead for a very long time now...”
Sadly, that’s true.
Overthrowing the federal govt as we know it. Would be a thing of beauty
The video had paper ballots to go back to and verify. Our county uses paperless voting machines so there is no way to verify votes.
I said this before, during a local election a couple years ago, hubby's vote was flipped. Thankfully, he caught it at the "Submit" page. He told the election officials and they just sat there with blank stares. He then reported it to the local Republican office and was called back a couple weeks later saying their investigation didn't find anything wrong. Well, duh, how can they find anything if there is no paper ballot to back up what the electronic machine claims is true?
That same election, Austin, TX was having major problems at two polling places. People had their cameras showing machines being taken out and put into car trunks. Who knows what happened to the machines or the votes on them.
The problems you point out are real, or at least have the potential to be real, and there seems to be almost zero security at any level.
At my voting place they have paper ballots which are scanned into a card reader machine, and a direct computer way to vote. I always use the paper ballot and say to the poll workers, “I have a degree in computer science and with those computer type ballots there is way too much chance they can be compromised.” They look at me as if I’ve told them there’s a man from Mars outside.
It's a start, but voting machines and the procedures to count the votes should be guarded with almost the same seriousness as we guard nuclear weapons and their launch codes, because the decision of who controls the nuclear weapons passes through the voting machines.
Voting Procedures in Honduras, a Banana Republic!
(a re-write of excellent post by Gideon300)
I had the opportunity to go watch my wife, a citizen of Honduras, vote in last years presidential election in Tegucigalpa. It was a real eye-opener, and I can only wish the US had such a strict voting process.
Everyone in Honduras is required to vote only in the precinct as indicated on their government issued (free) photo ID card. Every citizen over 18 is required to have an national ID, and everyone with an ID can vote. No one else, and no one is registered as a member of a certain party, merely a citizen. My wifes precinct is Barrio El Bosque, so she was required to go to the Escuela de 14 de Julio (local elementary school) if she wanted to vote.
When we arrived at the voting place there were hundreds of people milling around the street and a long line was waiting to enter. The entire scene was closely watched over by Army and Policía Nacionál to make sure order was kept. For the most part everything was quite orderly, and people were polite to each other even with the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. After showing ID, passing the guard and entering the school we went to the main table in the courtyard where they ran her ID through a computer and she was given a little slip of paper that indicated her name, her precinct, her mesa (voting area) and linea number (her number on the voter registration list). Every citizen is automatically registered to vote, and their name, Id photo and precinct number is on a list posted in that precinct.
The mesas in this case are rooms in the school, numbered in order to handle the hundreds of people waiting to vote. Her mesa was number 8586, so after finding the room, there was a list of all registered voters beside the door. She checked her line number with photo, 235, to make sure she is at the right door, the man watching the door checked her ID against the list, and let her in. She went to the table inside the room for a ballot, was checked again for ID and compared it to the info and photo in the registry, was given two ballots, one for president and one for congress, and this time they held her ID while she voted. I was allowed in as a foreign observer, but was not on school tables for privacy, so after voting she deposited her ballots in the appropriate boxes, was given her ID back and we left.
I wanted to take photos but no cameras were allowed anywhere but in the street. No alcohol is sold anywhere in Honduras from Saturday through Monday, the day before and the day after election.
They take voter ID, and potential vote fraud, VERY seriously. All ballots are paper, and all have the candidate’s info and photo. There are eight official parties in Honduras, and the one with the most votes wins. The police and the army watch the voting very closely. One woman was caught with an extra ballot, and was immediately arrested. The Honduras news media, which is quite politically unbiased, indicated that both local and official foreign observers found only three cases of vote fraud in the entire country.
It was certainly an eye-opener for me! If this is the difference between a the US and a Banana Republic, then I will take a banana republic election anytime.
If I am not mistaken, I believe the primary function (if not the sole function) of the Honduran military is the enforcement of election law and insurance of voting security.
Probably...because I have not heard Honduras fighting stupid wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or any other middle-east country.
Probably...because I have not heard Honduras fighting stupid wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or any other middle-east country.
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