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Should USA Adopt British System for Reporting Votes?
Self | June 24, 2016 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 06/24/2016 2:35:45 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

One thing that really impressed me about the Brexit vote yesterday was how the votes were announced. First the total number of votes were announced and then the results of that total. IOW, it was a done deal. No subsequent finding of mystery votes in a box hidden away in some warehouse.

Should the USA adopt a similar system? Somehow I think there is very little vote fraud in the British system compared to ours.


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KEYWORDS: brexitvote; uselections
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To: PJ-Comix

Good idea, I also like the idea , Iraqi, I think, to dip a voter’s finger in purple dye to prevent repeat voting.
Just to hear the Democrats howl would be worth it.


21 posted on 06/24/2016 4:24:16 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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I don’t think it will work because dead people can’t move pencils.


22 posted on 06/24/2016 4:52:45 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Peak Trump is just around the corner, as the Hillary bubble bursts)
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To: PJ-Comix

The last few elections in the US were tallied on the Clinton home server system.


23 posted on 06/24/2016 5:05:20 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: PJ-Comix

The liberals and their courts WANT vote fraud in the US.


24 posted on 06/24/2016 5:06:19 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: PJ-Comix

Here in Indiana, we mark paper ballots, that are then fed into a scanner. Like SAT tests.

There is a paper ballot to tally against the electronic report.

Don’t know how it works in other states.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 5:10:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Don’t they have limited exit polling or something too? They had 72.2% eligible voter turnout for this thing. The last time the US had a national election eligible voter turnout that high was 1900. But maybe exit polling helps to suppress turnout. But then how do you know if it’s legit?

Freegards


26 posted on 06/24/2016 5:16:23 PM PDT by Ransomed
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27 posted on 06/24/2016 5:16:57 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: RayChuang88

Very good list. Just a single change though to the date of the election. It must be held on April 16, or whatever day follows the last due date for tax returns to be filed.


28 posted on 06/24/2016 5:24:02 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d say 3-5% of Dem votes in a national election are fraudulent. That is what an opponent has to beat in addition to real, living, idiot liberal voters.


29 posted on 06/24/2016 5:25:49 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

“Oh and execute anyone convicted of vote fraud. Problem solved.”

I am in favor of this; at the _very_ least, I’ll take an automatic 10 years in a non-country club prison, no parole, no plea bargains.


30 posted on 06/24/2016 5:43:38 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: JimRed
There will still be the back room of the union hall with the faithful premarking wads of ballots to be "found" as soon as they know how many they need to steal the election. And the clerical "error" in the count. And the "accidental" delay in the overseas military vote.

I have no doubt that in 2000 the dems pulled a bunch of ballots out their orifices which they tried to punch with an awl or nail set. They called Gore and told him to 'unconcede'. However, the punching of the paper ballots was done hastily, hence all the 'hanging chads'.

31 posted on 06/24/2016 8:17:26 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalry)
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To: PJ-Comix

Yeah, I think the British method has much less fraud.

The polls were close but the large turnout favored Brexit.

For a great example of fraud look at the Dem primary contest in California recently. The polls were insanely off.

I think it is an obvious case of fraud.


32 posted on 06/24/2016 11:34:17 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
No id required in Ca elections. A machine, which is not well designed, takes your vote, prints it on paper for the voter to review. If the paper is correct, you push a button and leave. The piece of paper may or may not go anywhere, the voter does not know. Additionally, the voters votes are no longer anonymous since his ballot has a number which is given to him in case of recount. But with an electronic system, who knows what the programmer has kept track of? Paper ballots and voter id are the only safe system.
33 posted on 06/25/2016 12:17:18 AM PDT by The Westerner
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To: PJ-Comix

The US should go to an all paper voting system and scrap the electronic voting machines. The paper ballot would include a thumb print in the corner of the ballot to minimize voter fraud. The ballots would then be scanned and checked for duplicate thumb prints and the votes tabulated. Any duplicate votes would automatically be voided.


34 posted on 06/25/2016 8:18:05 AM PDT by 41Thunder (It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.)
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To: 41Thunder

I LOVED the British voting system, I wish we had that voting system I was up ALL night watching we could do it by congressional districts!!!


35 posted on 06/25/2016 8:21:34 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: clamper1797
"PUBLICALLY execute ANYONE convicted of purposeful voting fraud"

With a stout rope!

36 posted on 06/25/2016 8:24:53 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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