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Small Wisconsin Town Under Review by Feds After Eliminating Electronic Voting Machines and Opting for Paper Ballots
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 22, 2024 | Anthony Scott

Posted on 05/22/2024 8:05:45 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

A small town in Wisconsin is currently under Federal review after making a decision to eliminate electronic voting machines and replace them with paper ballots.

In June 2023, board members of the town of Thornapple in Rusk County, Wisconsin, decided to stop using electronic voting machines for elections and instead rely entirely on hand-counting ballots.

The decision by board members has since caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, which is now investigating the move.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Suzanne Pinnow, who serves as Thornapple’s chief election official, received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division seeking information about why the town decided to get rid of electronic machines and how the township is helping to accommodate disabled voters in the process.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: ballotmachines; bananarepublic; dominion; electionfraud; electionintegrity; electronicvoting; fakewaypundit; fraud; hoft; paperballot; paperballots; riggedelection; ruskcounty; stolenelection; thornapple; votefraud; voterfraud; votingfraud; votingmachines; wisconsin
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Who didn't see this coming.
1 posted on 05/22/2024 8:05:45 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Give them the finger and proceed. There is no law requiring a county to use voting machines.


2 posted on 05/22/2024 8:09:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Paper ballots need to be backup in every precinct in the United States. As usual the FBI chose the wrong side to be on...


3 posted on 05/22/2024 8:10:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (Watching Judge Merchan in action is like watching a corrupt bought umpire throw a game...)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Evil. Pure evil.


4 posted on 05/22/2024 8:15:51 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Ignore their stupid letter.

L


5 posted on 05/22/2024 8:20:07 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Much more difficult to cheat with paper ballots.
With electronic machines, it is just a few mouse clicks.


6 posted on 05/22/2024 8:23:10 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever he picks VP in November. If he loses in 2024, country is toast.)
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To: Bobbyvotes

I want paper ballots AND purple fingers.

Other countries manage to do paper ballots and have the results the same night. Why are we so inferior?


7 posted on 05/22/2024 8:26:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Bobbyvotes

You’re exactly right đź‘Ť


8 posted on 05/22/2024 8:44:09 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Sheesh.

We can’t have honest elections not subject to the potential for cheating, now can we?

That could cost the DS its grip on power.


9 posted on 05/22/2024 9:51:43 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

>In June 2023, board members of the town of Thornapple in Rusk County, Wisconsin, decided to stop using electronic voting machines for elections and instead rely entirely on hand-counting ballots.<

There’s not a damn thing wrong with that.
We had honest elections back then.


10 posted on 05/22/2024 9:58:13 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

No election process is perfect.

When it comes to elections, accuracy and resistance to manipulation should be more important than convenience.

Today’s election process: Only those who are happy with the outcome claim elections are fair nowadays.


11 posted on 05/22/2024 11:33:08 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Suzanne Pinnow, who serves as Thornapple’s chief election official, received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division seeking information about why the town decided to get rid of electronic machines and how the township is helping to accommodate disabled voters in the process.

If I was a betting man I would bet that every State has in place a means to facilitate the vote for the disabled, which in my opinion would amount to LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE VOTING POPULATION, and said Department of injustice is well aware of that fact due to the mountain of law piled high to protect miniscule amounts of US population for the purpose of further reducing what ever power any State might exercise relative to the ninth and tenth amendments to the US Constitution.

Yes my FR friends it is way past high time for at least red States to ignore anything coming from the corrupt Federal Government in regards to anything they might attempt to use to further usurp the rights, privileges, principles, and liberty of “We the People” or the States that gave even a smidgeon of power to what has now become the Federal leviathon.


12 posted on 05/23/2024 2:59:26 AM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Vote by phone. App is easy to build and the database is already there. Anyone with a SS# can vote. On election day, a copy of the SS database is created. You login to the app using your SS# as ID and you have two factor authentication. You vote, and your name is removed from the database so that you cannot vote again. Pretty simple and can be created in less than three months.

An audit log in generated as the official record. It removes cheating at the source, makes mail in ballots obsolete as well as going to the polls to vote. You can do this for both national and local elections as well as for ballot initiatives. For local, you go by address on file and those addressed are rolled up into congressional districts. Again, extremely simple.

What’s best about this method is pretty much everyone has a cell phone or access to one. Which means no disenfranchisement.


13 posted on 05/23/2024 3:38:51 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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To: wita

How is an electronic machine any easier to use than a paper ballot for the disabled?
Funny the civil “rights” division had no issue with paper mail in ballots or dementia patients in nursing homes voting in mass for xiden.

Glad to see our govt still has their priorities right /s

Do the J6 detainees get to use electronic or paper ballots, bet the division is looking into that, again /s


14 posted on 05/23/2024 3:49:21 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Not sure about the security of that, imagine some well funded IT folks could figure a hack for that

Imagine you go to vote on the app and you find that it says you have already voted, how do you challenge that if all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed according to the app

Never underestimate what people will do to hold on to power


15 posted on 05/23/2024 3:56:57 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: DesertRhino

“There is no law requiring a county to use voting machines.”

Plus, Feds have no business interfering with state and local election law and procedures.


16 posted on 05/23/2024 4:05:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Anyone with a SS# can vote.”
Even the illegals who have been granted SSN’s?


17 posted on 05/23/2024 4:30:05 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: GOPJ

Just as important as paper ballots is that they be counted IN the precinct, and NEVER leave until all challenges are satisfied. Once ballots are sent to a central location, their number can be “augmented” without the opportunity to review that against the total number of people who showed up to vote.


18 posted on 05/23/2024 4:42:30 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Tell the Feds they lack jurisdiction.


19 posted on 05/23/2024 4:46:03 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: PubliusMM

“Even the illegals who have been granted SSN’s?

Would you rather have a few million illegals from blue states voting or dead people, ballot harvesters and midnight shenanigans by radical leftists deciding our elections?

I know the answer is neither, however that isn’t a viable option at this time. Plus, my suggestion forces the Democrats hands since it removes all of their arguments on why we need mail in voting.


20 posted on 05/23/2024 6:17:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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