Posted on 12/18/2017 2:35:41 PM PST by Reagan80
The Secretary of State does encourage anyone that suspects any type of voter fraud to report it to their website.
http://sos.alabama.gov/alabama-votes/stop-voter-fraud-now
The Alabama Supreme Court is all Republican.
Alabama must have more churches per square mile than any other state and they just elected a pro-abortionist to the Senate?
Well, they can’t be conservative if they don’t even allow the vote to be verified.
Alabama? Seriously? Bear in mind that those are elected. How do a bunch of liberal justices get elected in Alabama?
Something’s wrong in this situation.
Oh wait, they DID delete all the electronic ballots. Now why would they do that?
>>>Oh wait, they DID delete all the electronic ballots. Now why would they do that?
The all Republican Alabama Supreme Court’s decision did not require the deletion of ballots. It merely stated Alabama law did not require counties to retain the digital images of paper ballots. Counties must retain the paper ballots for 22 months.
The Republican super majority in the Alabama legislature determined the laws for ballot retention.
The Republican Secretary of State argued against retention of the digital ballot images on the basis that many of the machines are not programmed to capture the images because state law does not require it.
Any irregularities in the counting of ballots can still be determined through a recount of the paper ballots.
It’s interesting to see so many people on this forum suggesting that the judges should have been more activist in requiring counties to do more than what the Alabama legislature had decided was sufficient.
Without retention of those records, it would be unbelievably easy to enter vote totals and percentages for an overall election on the backend, regardless of how actual voters voted.
The only evidence of manipulation would be that the votes themselves don't match the totals, and that evidence would be destroyed with the deletion of electronic ballots.
>>>Without retention of those records, it would be unbelievably easy to enter vote totals and percentages for an overall election on the backend, regardless of how actual voters voted.
There are lists of those that voted. There are hard copies of their signatures. There are the actual paper ballots on which people cast their ballots. Those can be compared to the totals reported on the machines. That can all be done without retention of the digital ballot images. The Alabama legislature had the opportunity to require retention of the digital images, but determined that the paper ballots were sufficient.
I may be ignorant here. I thought that many votes are cast purely electronically, with no paper trail.
Nope. All ballots are cast on paper and inserted into scanners.
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