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To: McQ444
Yesterday, there was a post about an court ruling in OH forcing a county to buy Dominion machines. The price tag was $1.5 million. The county did not want to purchase the machines. Let's forget for a moment all this business about voter fraud and machine inaccuracy, regardless of cause. Focus on the cost to tax payers. $1.5 million for machines vs. $0.00 for no machines. There will be cost of paper ballots in either case. $0.00 for volunteers to count ballots and observed by all political parties involved in the election. Political parties can spend their own money, not tax dollars, on paying observers if desired.

This has been a tried and true method in voting and counting votes for well over two centuries, and for the most part, the public had trust in elections. It is economical. It gets citizens involved in civic life.

Now let's just briefly touch on the topic of fraud and inaccuracy. When machines are introduced into the recording and counting the votes, there will always be a question of whether there is fraud and inaccuracy. There is only one thing to understand. Machines lack the same observation as hand counting. Certainly, you could have observers watch a stack of ballots be loaded into a tabulation machine, but there really isn't any scrutiny of each individual ballot as there would be if counted by hand. Hand counting is typically done with three or more people, with each agreeing with the vote on each ballot. Furthermore, those three people are observed by representatives of political parties. This is a simple system of quality control, validation and verification. It does not take a tremendous amount of time when performed at the precinct level. The vote can be counted in the evening of the election. But in PA, over a week after the May 18th election, they are still counting votes. Something is inherently wrong with elections in PA. These eff'n RINOs need to get off their lazy asses and do something about. They control both chambers of the state legislature. Until then, there will not be fair elections in PA.

45 posted on 05/26/2021 9:05:20 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Focus on the cost to tax payers. $1.5 million for machines vs. $0.00

If I understood the post, that was just an opening cost to proceed with the rest of the purchases.

76 posted on 05/26/2021 11:18:01 AM PDT by itsahoot (The election was stolen and there isn't a dang thang you can do about it. )
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