I couldn’t disagree more. It sounds like you’re arguing FOR exactly the kind of secrecy that has created a playground for fraud and manipulation. The voting process, whether by paper ballots and hand counting or by computerized voting systems, must be 100% transparent to ANY CITIZEN, ON DEMAND, AT ANY TIME. Letting county officials and private contractors obscure how our voting mechanism works, and then using courts to fight any attempt to shine light on the process, is a recipe for tyranny.
WE THE PEOPLE are the ultimate arbiters of whether our voting system is above board, and every single citizen has the right to know every single detail of how it works. If you’re worried that exposing that information might somehow provide too much information to potential hackers or something then there’s a simple solution: NO ELECTRONIC VOTING, PERIOD.
There is no justification for this continued witch hunt against Trump and his associates, and they are heroes for attempting to expose the inner workings of a highly corrupt system.
You would be wrong on the need for a court order and I never suggested secrecy and no one being able to see the machines, I did say you need a court order.
One poster on FR pointed out the Republican Poll Watchers were kicked out of the counting process, which should be a legal battle to make sure that never happens again, poll watchers from both parties are there to eliminate problems like this one.
It’s simply not feasible to allow anyone at any time to examine voting machines, unless you have a court order.
The issue of electronic voting machines is a big shiny object meant to distract everyone from far more important issues.
Just today on FR, we had someone post that Dana Nessel from Michigan admitted 8000-10000 fraudulent ballots were sent to a single county.
Tell me exactly, those 8000-10000 ballots are going to get counted and no judge in the country will void them, if you count them all by hand or with a machine, the results will be the same, the ballots were fraudulent to begin with. How would hand counting fix this issue.
What Republicans should be doing is finding out if those ballots are still on the voter rolls and if this type of thing is happening in other counties, is that happening, I’m waiting for anyone posting about that, in all likelihood the Republicans are doing nothing.
The reason is....banana republic.