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Shocking video shows touch-screen polling machine malfunctioning and repeatedly changing...
daily mail ^ | 8/28/2019 | andrew court

Posted on 08/28/2019 10:11:02 AM PDT by RummyChick

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To: ml/nj

Especially if it was in a sub routine named ‘LogAction’ and it was written in assembly to ‘ make it run faster’. Most developers today couldn’t be bothered with finding out what it was actually doing.


41 posted on 08/28/2019 11:24:33 AM PDT by Bitman
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To: ml/nj

Especially if it was in a sub routine named ‘LogAction’ and it was written in assembly to ‘ make it run faster’. Most developers today couldn’t be bothered with finding out what it was actually doing.


42 posted on 08/28/2019 11:24:34 AM PDT by Bitman
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To: Agatsu77

I’m hired at about 180 dollars an hour to analyze things like this.

If someone wanted to code this to change a vote, it’s software. There is no need to let the user know their vote has been changed.

Basically, I could choose my candidate, and watch it submit that candidate. The change would be invisible and instantaneous. It would happen at several points, not at my fingertips.


43 posted on 08/28/2019 11:32:22 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: RummyChick

The democrats are very adept at election fraud. With electronic voting there are multiple ways to cheat. Democrats always use multiple layers of cheating in elections. Phony calibration is likely one. Especially since, oddly enough, these errors almost always go in the democrats favor. Add in ballot harvesting, non registered voters, multiple voting, busing in voters, election boards run by democrats, etc. Multiple layers. And then toss in the republicans who run to their defense. Why would democrats not cheat?


44 posted on 08/28/2019 11:32:48 AM PDT by robel
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To: RummyChick

I recall reading during the Obama elections that most voting machines were owned by Soros entities and serviced by SEIU.


45 posted on 08/28/2019 11:38:11 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Don Corleone

Hear.Hear.


46 posted on 08/28/2019 11:45:58 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (not on the book of faces,...written in the book of life)
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To: Don Corleone

...or hare hare...

...for the bunny with a pancake crowd


47 posted on 08/28/2019 11:47:14 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (not on the book of faces,...written in the book of life)
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To: Zathras
Software bugs don’t work this way.

It's always nice when folks loudly demonstrate their ignorance.

The screen is probably miscalibrated.

If someone other than a drama queen wanted to vote for Waller, they'd just touch a bit, or a lot, below his name.

48 posted on 08/28/2019 11:55:21 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: SamAdams76

It would be very interesting to see an empirical study analyzing the number of tight races that went to Democrats over the past few decades. The data is readily available and would probably show that something is persistently tipping the scales and/or reversing initial voting results.

The RNC should be all over this. But they’re never going to do it.


49 posted on 08/28/2019 11:57:57 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Agatsu77
The system is coded that way, probably not to do it every time but only enough to run up the dems total.

It's OK to read the article.

50 posted on 08/28/2019 12:02:53 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Agatsu77; thoughtomator
Absolutely, Where you physically touch the screen is just as accurate as a mechanical keyboard on an x axis and y axis. "resistive" types ARE physical connection layers just like a keyboard, pressing A CANNOT be mistaken for pressing K. Everything after that is software that reads and registers where you touched it. The ability to adjust this registry on an X or Y axis in "capacitive types is very slight and configured on it's own chip with hard coded firmware. Not enough to make it read a whole button away from another, it would take a total software "interpretation" after the peripheral device to do this.

Resistive

Capacitive


51 posted on 08/28/2019 12:04:18 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

> Everything after that is software

There is absolutely no need for software of any kind in a voting machine. The presence of software in such a machine introduces completely unnecessary uncertainty that is directly damaging to any claim of legitimacy derived from an election conducted with these devices.

If it ain’t 100% mechanical and doesn’t leave a verifiable paper trail... fraud is overwhelmingly likely to be present.


52 posted on 08/28/2019 12:07:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: thoughtomator

I absolutely agree. It is an open invitation.


53 posted on 08/28/2019 12:08:43 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Yo-Yo
And a bonus of the optically scanned ballot is that there is an actual piece of paper that can be either rescanned or hand scored for recounts. You can't recount a touch screen voting machine, only re-read its internal tally.

Yes, you can still have voter registration fraud and vote harvesting, but the integrity of the vote at the polling location is ensured. New Mexico, with all its problems otherwise, uses this method. One other thing, NM has consolidated precincts so that you can vote at any one of them within a county - closer to work than to home, for example.

54 posted on 08/28/2019 12:09:48 PM PDT by CedarDave (Google has blacklisted Free Republic in its search engine. Use duckduckgo for searching.)
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To: RummyChick

This is why paper ballots are so important. Here in Minnesota they get it right, using an optical w/scanner that feeds into a sealed box. The totals at any polling place can can be verified by unsealing the box and recounting the paper ballots with a Mark I eyeball.

Cheating is still possible but it has to be done old school (e.g., the car trunk full of ballots ‘found’ for Al Franken); paper really helps to limit the electronic shenanigans.


55 posted on 08/28/2019 12:11:12 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: OrangeHoof
It took the vote away from the Republican candidate. As far as Dems are concerned, it’s working perfectly.

JTDC, does anybody read before posting?

It's right in the title:

Shocking video shows touch-screen polling machine malfunctioning and repeatedly changing voter's selection in Mississippi's GOP governor primary runoff

56 posted on 08/28/2019 12:12:24 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Where are the Democrats screaming that their votes were changed?

Maybe they read the article.

Or didn't vote in the GOP Primary.

57 posted on 08/28/2019 12:15:33 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Mr.Unique
You got me this time. Next time, that same screen will change the same position to the other candidate?

-PJ

58 posted on 08/28/2019 12:31:53 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: HamiltonJay

This is like saying a physical keyboard has to be calibrated. Where you touch the screen is hard coded with firmware in the screen controller and pretty static and accurate. the variables cannot mistake areas on the screen that far apart. “interpretive” software that can be coded as liked “decides” where it “thinks” you touched after that.

The fact that it changed and removed the “write in” button as part of him touching his choice button proves that there were actually “two” software controlled operations that happened at one time, one because of the other. Two simultaneous operations like that absolutely rules out peripheral “calibration” of any kind.


59 posted on 08/28/2019 12:35:52 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: RummyChick

It’s run by a computer. It didn’t malfunction. Machines don’t inadvertently mark a box. The program was programmed wrong. This should be a simple program to write, so my conclusion is that this is deliberately done by a programmer.


60 posted on 08/28/2019 12:45:32 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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