[Carley]

Often the machines are loaded with votes before the polls open.

Add the dead and you have electorate victories by fraud.

[JimRed]

Often the machines are loaded with votes before the polls open.

The machines we use in New Jersey automatically print out a zero proof tape as soon as they are turned on. If there were any votes pre-entered they would show up. The number of voter authority slips issued also will match the number of votes cast on the machines, another check. What concerns me more is multiple votes under different names in various districts by union thugs.

And it is much easier to "find" boxes of paper ballots than it is to break into the chain of custody of the machine votes. With a minimum of two machines per district, the hacking would have be a full time job carried out in the storage warehouses, under the noses of the board of Elections.

[leprechaun9]

Actually some elections are rigged by SUBTRACTING VOTES, NOT ADDING THEM!

Having worked in a NJ statewide election as a challenger, the campaign got a court order to check the voting machines BEFORE they left the County Warehouse for the voting district locations.

Approximately 5% of the machines in those districts, where it was expected that the vote would be close, the counters were not set to 000. Instead they were set for 950. This meant that the first 50 voters for that candidate would bring the counter to 000, hence 50 votes lost.

It is very difficult to add votes for a candidate because the master counter of all voters cannot be exceeded by any candidate. This is one of the ways of election tampering and it NOT rare.