Massive Warehouse Fire Breaks Out in Houston Entire stock of voting machines were inside.

It started with an early morning warehouse fire in north Houston, which Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman believes the building is where the county housed many of it's 10,000 voting machines. This as officials prepare for this year's mid-term elections.

Though early reports indicate only a portion of the warehouse was destroyed, Kaufman tells KTRH's Morning News she's preparing for the worst.

“I’m not optimistic that we’ll be able to recover a whole lot of it because we’re talking about plastic and a lot of heat,” says Kaufmann.

I can print quite satisfactory ballots on my home computer and check off the votes.

I'm believe you believe that to be the case muawiyah, but 1) That one vote copied would need to be accompanied by millions of others which also weren't detected by precinct workers, who may be the most important defense against fraud; 2) Ballots can easily be designed which have mechanisms which a few might defeat, but too few to make a difference. Computer counting makes the entire vote opaque, as well as entirely prohibiting any meaningful recount.

Having been an engineer with a firm which developed and manufactured counterfeit detection devices to the treasury and a number of banks, nothing printed at home would come close to passing those machines, and they were not expensive. Today they could be produced at a tenth the price of ours, and cost much less than a laptop computer.

Since you asked, and there have been decades of study devoted to mechanisms for verifiable voting, one mechanism might be employed if enough understand the magnitude of the issue. It is clear that neither party has an interest in risking its opportunity to cheat, so assume it will not be done within our legislative process.

If voters would register locally with some group, perhaps a Tea Party, and share their votes with the private monitoring group, it should be possible to detect gross anomalies such as occurred during the Rossi election in Washington and the Minnesota election which saw the clown climb past the Republican (I've forgotten his name) with each announcement. A few know how some precints had more votes than registered voters; they aren't talking and are probably comlicit. The fix will need to come from outside of parties. It is hard to believe that most published counts are other than negotiated results judged not so extreme as to arouse public ire.

Politicians live well from the exercise of power granted them by presumed elections. They are understandably unwilling to risk losing what they have. The result is that we, the proletariat, are being managed. Until there is verifiable voting, we are working for them - and we probably don't know who ‘them’ are.

No, it is not necessary to stuff the ballots boxes ~ if the standard is that ALL things be in order with the number of ballots equaling the number of votes, then all you need to do is get an extra ballot stuffed into the ballot box in an area where you know your opponent is going to get a lot of votes.

They'll disqualify the whole "sealed container" ~ and if 1000 people voted, but there are 1001 votes, it's just like your guy getting 1000 more votes!

Christine Gregoire in Washington state WON a couple of elections by simply getting votes supporting her opponents disqualified.

Obama won elections by challenging the nominating petitions of his opponents ~ didn't matter how the vote went when no one else was on the ballot.

Vote Fraud takes many forms, not all of them quite that obvious.

The lesson is "subtraction is a powerful mathematical tool"

Al Dingdong, Minnesota's junior senator, also won by getting opposition votes disqualified.

Has no one been paying attention to the methods Democrats are actually using?

In the old days they stuffed the boxes. Today they get the boxes disqualified, or the machine totals subjected to judicial challenge long enough to get past a statutory deadline for finalizing the votes, and so on.

Al Gore's votes in Florida involved sorting the "no vote" cards out and then overpunching them. That was detected in that county with the anomalous design ~ because there Buchanan's boxes showed up where Gore's did elsewhere.

If that hadn't happened no one would have been confident that the Democrat total was never going to increase with recounts becaused they'd already skimmed 50 to 100,000 votes out of hte system by overpunching blank ballots.

Buchanan laughed his tail off with that deal ~ because he knew exactly how it was done and what it meant ~ first of all it meant Bush was going to win!

Democrats never did find enough additional votes to trick Al into office, nor were they able to disqualify enough Bush votes.

They got greedy and stepped on their cranks!

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