The author is good, but he missed a few tricks. For those who have not read my short booklet on vote fraud and what YOU can do to prevent it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991953/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378786/posts
I learned a few new tricks recently. The most dangerous is when the dim Clerk prints out extra Access Codes for the ESlate machine. He hands up to 20 codes to his activist buddy when he comes through the line. By voting straight ticket, said activist can probably vote 20 times in a few minutes in the privacy of the booth.
Back when we used paper ballots I saw a similar trick. The dim Clerk at the Sign In Table would simply hand extra paper ballots to the activist who would then cast multiple ballots.
YOU GOTTA BE THERE! We need Republican Election Judges, Alternate Judges, and Poll Watchers. If nobody is looking they WILL COMMIT VOTE FRAUD. Hell, they tried multiple methods of fraud with me STANDING THERE WATCHING THEM.
Learn the law. Go to the Judge Law Class. You must be able to confront the dim Judge or Clerk and call the authorities. In my part of Texas we can call the County DA or County Attorney. If there is trouble, e.g., someone trying to intimidate Poll Watchers, the County Attorney will send a Constable to keep order.
My Fellow Freepers, we CAN win this one, but it does not end this November. Fraud is as old as civilization and our opponents LOVE TO CHEAT.
Please join me in this fight.
The most dangerous is when the dim Clerk prints out extra Access Codes for the ESlate machine. He hands up to 20 codes to his activist buddy when he comes through the line. By voting straight ticket, said activist can probably vote 20 times in a few minutes in the privacy of the booth.
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During training for election judges in our neck of the woods such was pointed out by the offical training that just such could occur! However, this is why pollwatchers should be ever vigilant while on duty inside the polling place. You’ve noted eSlates are the voting systems used in the scenario of note. I assume the district does not also use the Hart Intercivic paper ballot/scanner system called eScan. With the eScan there is no ‘access code’ as the ballot is paper. (there could be tampering there as well) However, both systems (electronic machines) enable for tracking the public counter of ballots cast on whichever machine is used to ‘tally’ the ballots. On the eSlate’s Judges Control Booth there is a public counter and any pollwatcher has access to the information on it during duty. That should periodically be compared to the precinct pollbook of voters who ‘signed in’ to gain access to the polling place. There are times when people are given these access codes and they may take too long to vote or leave the polls. The voting session expires and the JBC will also show how many expired access codes for comparison etc. I agree we need more pollwatchers. We also need such watchers at the central election bureau after the polls close because the central scanners are then used to tally the ballots from the JBC’s ‘memory card.’
I am not an advocate of the all paper/counted by hand paper ballots, though I do support the paper ballot/scanners.
We can no longer trust officials to count anything out of sight of the public, if we ever could.
We don’t know ever if our vote was ‘tallied’ or counted as we voted as we do not ever see that our candidate’s vote tallied increased by one the instant we cast our ballot. No more hand raising and counting as that of course violates the requirement that all be able to cast a vote in private.
This is what probably happens in some of the Dem precincts who always seem to get their vote totals in much later than the Republican and mixed ones. Voting straight party with one click should be banned.