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This is nonsense. You calibrate mechanical things or even electromechanical things where there is an analog component. The voting machines cannot be calibrated as they are solely digital, and are suppose to be programed with a certified program that cannot be changed at the polling place. Only the normal public uneducated in the functioning of these devices would be gullible enough to buy this argument. It is a false argument designed to shut people up who are complaining about what they see. The fact that the error is not completely repeatable means that either the software has been rigged, or that the hardware is unstable. It is kind of like a PC computer that runs good for awhile and then keeps acting strange, and then maybe runs good for awhile again.

A voting machine is suppose to be far too stable and simple for that to happen. So you either have voting machines that actually are unstable or you have software that is designed to randomly reverse the votes. How many people are saying that they voted straight democrat and had all there votes change to republicans? If the answer is none then the software is rigged. And I am sure that the software can be rigged so that the voter gets no visual indication that there votes did apply as they directed.

It may be true that the machine registers that keep track of the votes can be zeroed, but you sure would not want that going on after the voting had started. Switching to these machines has ensured that the vote can be rigged.

...”Switching to these machines has ensured that the vote can be rigged”...

We The People should demand some kind of affirmation and proof that this software is clean of manipulation and, if found to be otherwise, the perps should go to jail for life.
We must stand against corruption..Otherwise, it will kill us.

Remember that the slot machines you see in Las Vegas are not really as random as you think. They can be programmed to yield a given outcome over time. For example, over time, they might be set to return 97.44% to the player (but guarantee 2.56% to the house.) Thus is it not out of the question that a machine can be programmed to deliver, say, 53.44% of the vote to the Democratic candidate regardless of how the lever is pulled by the user.

Now I know that slot machines and voter machines are two totally difference devices, but at their heart, they both have microprocessors and yes, given access to the inside of the machine, it is theoretically possible for unscrupulous people to change their programming to ensure a given result.

“The voting machines cannot be calibrated as they are solely digital, and are suppose to be programed with a certified program that cannot be changed at the polling place.”

Well, if they are touch screen machines they might need to be calibrated. The digitizer must be calibrated so that when you touch a certain spot, the correct location is noted. Imagine you have two buttons, one says “straight Republican” and the other says “straight Rat”. Put them close together so that a small calibration error will cause a rat vote when the Republican box is touched near its edge.

I remember having to calibrate my Palm pilot touchscreen. If would give a target at each corner and you just tapped in the center of the target to calibrate.

BUT, a rat worker could simply tap a bit away from the target and an honest machine would then be purposely calibrated wrongly.

The only part of a machine like that that would be “calibrated” is the touch screen, if it uses a touch screen instead of actual buttons. There are calibration routines run on touch screens to make sure that the touch areas are correctly lined up with the graphics.

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