“If a criminal doesn’t admit he committed voter fraud, Clark County is unlikely to find out about it,” Joecks wrote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — “Clark County election officials accepted my signature on eight ballot return envelopes during the general election. It’s more evidence that signature verification is a flawed security measure,” wrote Las Vegas Review-Journal's columnist Victor Joecks, saying the assurances from elections officials that the process was secure were just puffery.
“County officials aren’t working proactively to determine whether unscrupulous actors abused this vulnerability in a widespread fashion,” Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria told Joecks.
Joecks conducted his own experiment to prove a voter could vote many times, noting in his Thursday piece that the issue is deeper than any single contest.
The journalist, who tested Nevada’s signature verification process for mail-in ballots, found that Nevada is wide open for fraud.
“Leave aside the presidential race. Even small amounts of fraud can swing results,” he wrote, pointing to a race where a State Senator won an election by 24 votes.
Joecks noted that among the “facts” listed on a state website was this gem:
“All mail ballots must be signed on the ballot return envelope.
"This signature is used to authenticate the voter and confirm that it was actually the voter and not another person who returned the mail ballot.”
Given the vast amount of reporting that has shown images of ballots dumped across both the City of Las Vegas and across Nevada, Joecks was intrigued.
“I wanted to test that claim by simulating what might happen if someone returned ballots that didn’t belong to him or her,” he wrote.
Joecks had nine co-conspirators.
He wrote the names for them to then copy, with instructions to try and imitate his handwriting.
To conduct the test, the nine co-conspirator citizens had to sign the ballots to ensure there was no fraud perpetrated.
Clark County Registrar, Joe Gloria (left,) told Joecks if ballots signed by someone else “came through, we would still have the signature match to rely on for identity.”
Queried about the confidence Gloria had in his Clark County Registrar office’s ability to pluck a fake ballot out of a sea of the documents, Gloria told Joecks, “I’m confident that the process has been working throughout this process.”
“He was wrong,” Joecks wrote.
“Eight of the nine ballots went through.
"In other words, signature verification had an 89% failure rate in catching mismatched signatures.”
Joecks said the result was not surprising, given the stories that have emerged of a woman voting this year, three years after she died, and another being told her signature was valid on a ballot she said she never received.
In fact, another whistleblower has come forward to say he was ordered by Elections Officials to process ballots without checking the signatures.
Joecks then focused on the real problem: No one really makes finding fraud a full-bore effort.
“County officials aren’t working proactively to determine whether unscrupulous actors abused this vulnerability in a widespread fashion,” he said.
Gloria said his office finds fraud when told about it.
“If a criminal doesn’t admit he committed voter fraud, Clark County is unlikely to find out about it,” Joecks wrote.
He said the issue isn't really whether President Donald Trump was the victim of fraud in the Nov. 3rd election or not, rather, it is about whether Nevada’s elections are as secure as officials claim.
“It’s unclear how much voter fraud took place in Nevada. But it’s clear signature verification isn’t the fail-safe security check elections officials made it out to be,” he wrote.
I’m sorry. I want an R, D and an independent (if truly an I and not another D). I want a paper ballot and a purple finger and a legal ID. Actually, I’d like a redo on all voter roles. Everyone resigns up. Don't be sorry...
Nully's modest proposal to end voter fraud:
- Paper ballots (zeugma adds) with human readable marks. They may be computer generated, and/or computer counted, but there must be an audit trail of each vote. H/T zeugma
- All systems using computerized counting must have open source software, two fully separate and independent companies provide redundant, crowd source vetted, software. Counting is done on two separate systems and cross-checked.
- Manual counting and loading paper ballots into counting machines must be live streamed from multiple cameras, with interlocking fields of view, on independent connections.
- Every ballot run through a machine scanner MUST have a date/time stamp applied at scanning, the scanner shall verify that no ballot is being counted twice. In the event of a recount, where a block of questionable ballots were run, those ballots can be sequestered and forensically evaluated for fraud, and identifying fingerprints and DNA evidence.
- Purple fingers (needs something to prevent an absentee voter/early voter from re-voting at the poll, maybe blockchain, also maybe a mugshot showing the voter an the photo ID taken at sign in?) H/T for-q-clinton
- Mandatory free on demand BIOMETRIC (iris scan, nobody ever left their irises at a crime scene!) photo voter ID card, with a database that instantly flags for arrest anyone seeking multiple IDs. Change of name or address? Simply have your old card voided when you apply for the new one.
- No precinct reports their totals until ALL precincts report they have totals. This prevents the last-to-report precinct captains from knowing how much to fudge a report to give a win to their preferred candidate while maintaining some slight semblance of credibility.
- Repeal Motor Voter.
- End same-day registration where it exists, and allow ample time between registration and election for vetting of credentials of registrants.
- Instantly deport any non-citizen who registers to vote. Permanently ban from re-entry any non-citizen who actually votes.
- All voter rolls are automatically and completely purged ten days after the Presidential Inauguration. Reregistering to vote every four years is not an imposition, unless you are dead, of course! H/T The Chid
- Put a little ⩍ next to the names of those registered voters with death certificates, and detain and put a 72 hour psychiatric hold on anyone claiming to be a dead person...
- With the exception of absentee ballots, end early voting. Every voter deserves and has a responsibility to know the latest information before they cast their ballots. H/T WildHighlander57
- Absentee ballots must be vetted and counted 10 days before the polling date, with the results secured and embargoed until close of polls the date of the vote. H/T octex
Mexico has voter ID cards required to vote, and when you vote, they punch a hole in your card to prevent multiple votes in the same election.
I don't know if you get a 10% discount after you've accumulated enough punched holes…
Of course, all this would only apply to Federal elections, for federal offices, as that is the legitimate concern of the federal government.
Let the states who have local authority use whatever system they wish to force the elections of their favorite sons and daughters to alderman, mayor or goobernor. They can do it the cheap way, by just following the federal rules for all voting, or they can have separate ballots for local and federal. Their call. It's a free country, ain't it?
