Posted on 09/20/2002 7:23:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Critical Election Day Ballot Security Issues
In the 2000 election, questions of voter fraud by our opponents arose across the country. Because of this, we are making it our job to ensure that our opponents dont get away with ANYTHING on Election Night 2002. That is why we are asking our County Coordinators in West Virginia to do two very specific things in addition to the normal all-day operations of our Republican poll-watchers:
1. Legally, it is necessary that one specific individual in every precinct in the State from each of the two major parties be tasked to accompany the ballot box between the Polling Place and the CourthouseNEVER letting the ballot box out of their sight. However, experience tells us that in many cases Republican officials have been derelict in this duty--allowing Democrat officials to take the box to the Courthouse unaccompanied. To remedy this, we are asking that each County Coordinator task one reliable individual to:
a) talk to all of the Republican Precinct Poll Workers before Election Day to remind them that no ballot box can go out of the polling place to the Courthouse without escort by a Republican, and
b) that this same individual station themselves at the Courthouse on Election Night with a checklist--to ensure that a Republican shows up with each and every precinct ballot box. Any precinct that does not have a Republican escort should immediately be suspect and open to possible challenge.
2. We are asking our County Coordinators to task one highly competent and reliable individual with a video camera and a tripod to set up in the tabulation area of each and every Courthouse in the Stateand to leave the tape rolling from beginning to end of the tabulation process. Past history would indicate that the Democrats who run many of the tabulation operations in many of the Courthouses have allowed the tabulation areas to turn into a party atmosphere, creating a climate that is open to abuse of the counting process. Our experience also is that the presence of a running camera almost automatically creates a serious and secure environment for this most critical of processes.
This same individual, or the County Coordinator, should inform Courthouse officials and/or law enforcement before Election Daymaking sure they understand that it is legal and right for us to do so.
I've been saying we should do something like this for years!
Well, maybe Jay got the idea from you! ;-)
You have FReepmail.
Please expound upon those surefire reasons, mi amigo...could it be Laziness? Or Fear? Or Ignorance? All of these reasons can be addressed and overcome, IMHO.
FReegards...MUD
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FReegards...MUD
Isn't that the idea? ;-)
ROTFL! Excellent point!
When I lived in Colorado it was illegal for poll workers to ask for an ID. You went in and gave your name and address and were then checked off a list that the worker had for your precinct. For that matter, it was illegal for them to ask for an ID when you registered to vote, but you did have to take an oath that the information you gave was true.
See also this thread, especially my post #182 (can't remember if I pinged you to it or not):
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS BEYOND CORRUPT, IT'S ALSO EVIL WARNS JIM ROBINSON IN SCATHING ATTACK OF TRUTH
Many of your suggestions are indeed valid and worth consideration, but public school teachers as poll workers???? These NEA puppets of the socialist indoctrination camps that vote almost exclusively for Rats?? I think we can do a LOT better than that. While I know there are some teachers who don't fit that profile, too many do and sadly many of them are part of the problem and no more intelligent than those they're supposed be teaching.
Those things may play some role, Mud.
I'm really only thinking about one main reason, though.
"All of these reasons can be addressed and overcome, IMHO."
All, except *one*.
Corruption.
The powers that be??
Those powers NEED the "gray area(s)" for their trickery.
So; do away with it, they won't & never will.
Imagine a bar code with one's thumb print on the back of a person's drivers license.
OK?
One walks up to the table, registers with the old timer volunteers staffing the poling place, right?
Now upon entering the voting booth one MUST insert their driver's lic into a *slot* where upon that person's ID is scanned from the bar code; and, as they place their thumb onto a scanner??
A "compare" is made along with a digital photograph of you as you're standing there.
The vote(s) you cast are submitted; and, all the other data is put into storage.
*Just* in case somebody suspects any shenanigans.
Nothing is "fool proof;" at least fool proof forever, Mud.
But as it is, now??
...they're really not doing anying a'tall, eh?
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