How many states still use paper ballots as opposed to
some form of electronic voting?
Very good question. There are some stations that use touchscreens.
In such stations a paper receipt may be available for the voter. But what good is such a receipt? Is each voter going to turn their receipt over to a poll watcher who is independently tallying the results?
The persons committing the fraud don’t care. They will use the confusion of the moment to cover up.
Remember, once the votes are gone, they are gone.
No court case can reverse a fraud outcome, why?
Take for example the 2004 stolen election for governor in WA State where Dino Rossi (R) won the first ballot by less than 1%, and won a second automatic recount by less than 1%, and then lost a third hand recount by 128 votes (where bags of ballots suddenly appeared from nowhere).
A court case of this 2004 election was quickly convened and concluded in January 2005. Rossi’s people discovered more than 1600 fraudulent votes. BUT IT DID NOT MATTER! It did not matter because there was no way to know which way the voter voted.
ONCE THE VOTES ARE COUNTED AND TURNED IN, THEY ARE GONE! IT’S A DONE DEAL!
The fraud must be detected and stopped BEFORE the fraudulent votes are transmitted or reported to the State’s election center.
“How many states still use paper ballots as opposed to
some form of electronic voting?”
New Mexico uses both, but that doesn’t make us immune to this type of fraud. A person uses a paper ballot to vote with, and then slides it into a tabulator machine. The tabulator can be programmed to alter the votes and nobody will be the wiser unless the paper ballots are hand tabulated to compare with the results the machine gives. This is not likely because there will be no obvious reason to open the ‘vault’ containing the paper ballots to do a hand count. I need to find out if it is ok for poll workers to take the initiative and compare the results of the paper ballots to the machine results BEFORE sending the machine results to the Clerk’s office. If anybody has this info in New Mexico I’d be appreciative if you’d FReepmail me with such.