Posted on 09/19/2016 7:35:01 PM PDT by HokieMom
FAIRFAX, Va. — With in-person voting for the presidential election starting Friday in Virginia, election officials who will be counting the most votes in the commonwealth say new systems there should allay concerns about hacking.
Voters in Fairfax County will first fill out paper ballots and then feed those paper forms into scanners that actually tally the votes — and drop the paper ballots into a bin that is locked and sealed as a record.
“This is a completely secure system that never has any connection to the internet,” said Fairfax County Registrar Cameron Sasnett, who provided reporters with a demonstration of the new system.
The paper ballot that voters will fill out with pens will also better show the voter’s intent, “because it will be captured on that ballot with that ink,” he added.
The approximately 600 machines that will be used in the county have been tested, locked and sealed with seals that change color if they are broken.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
Hillary currently has a ten thousand vote lead in Fairfax.
But—what difference does it make? ;-)
The voting machines here in Fort Worth Texas have worked like that for at least 30 years. they’re kind of like to old scan-tron machines.
The biggest fraud in Fairfax County VA is in the registration process.
Illegal aliens in large numbers have been registered by the SEIU and the Democrats. Nobody at the registrar’s office ever checks to see if the registrants have been truthful when they check the box that says you are a US citizen.
Once you are registered, even fraudulently, there is nothing to stop you from voting - early, absentee, or in person.
Really “new”!?!...my county has been doing the “paper ballot” w/bubbles (Scantron’ish) and scanner for more that 15 years! How many millions did they blow....our polling places have one scanner per poll....and a bunch of cheap privacy screens/booths w/pens. Very economical. Looks like Fairfax Co. got sold expensive “each voting booth has a scanner” machines! Some voting machine salesman made a killing!!
My county has those, as well. Instant count, paper ballots for canvassing.
The way this is described in the excerpt is exactly the way these machines ought to be used. With an auditable paper trail, recounts might actually mean something.
I thought they were going to roll out a wooden box with a slot and padlock attached.
Anytime I see a headline that says something in such a definitive way, I expect a joke.
I have a solution. 40 year old technology. I remember taking tests at the end of every school year. We had to fill in the little circles with a #2 pencil so they could be tallied up by a machine. Voting could be done the same way. Fill in the circles, insert into a “vote card reader” and computers tally things up and forward the results. Faster than hand counting, yet there’s still a hard copy for possible recount. Also, hand counts could be taken randomly to assure the computer count is accurate.
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