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peacebird

(14,195 posts)
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 10:46 PM Feb 2016

The voting machines in Virginia last fall let a voter slide the ballot in, see what was scanned

& press vote

The current machines scan the paper ballot and say done. Not letting the voter see their vote.
If I were not so concerned about our govenor working for Hillary I might not be concerned, however I feel there should be a recount based on the paper ballots after the primary

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The voting machines in Virginia last fall let a voter slide the ballot in, see what was scanned (Original Post) peacebird Feb 2016 OP
Already making excuses for the big Sanders lose I see. Leontius Feb 2016 #1
If -I- was a evil genius rigging voting machines... brooklynite Feb 2016 #2
Can you tell me the machine type? Wilms Feb 2016 #3
Virginia has had problems with voting machines gwheezie Feb 2016 #4
I'm a big fan a paper ballots in order to count and, if needed, recount. Snarkoleptic Feb 2016 #5
That's it! Premier Election Solutions. peacebird Feb 2016 #6

brooklynite

(94,607 posts)
2. If -I- was a evil genius rigging voting machines...
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 11:03 PM
Feb 2016

...I'd let the display show you the candidates you voted for, and then change the votes in the background. Wouldn't you?

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
4. Virginia has had problems with voting machines
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 11:28 PM
Feb 2016

For at least the last 3 election cycles. I have been concerned for years especially our former gov was spongebob McDonald, GOP and going to prison.
Where have you been?

Snarkoleptic

(5,998 posts)
5. I'm a big fan a paper ballots in order to count and, if needed, recount.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 12:56 AM
Feb 2016

Not sure why we allow ballot scanners and DRE voting machines to count our vote without open-source software.

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/5/

Bob and Todd Urosevich are hardly household names. Yet the two brothers have succeeded in monopolizing American election technology for decades through a pair of supposedly competing corporations: the Ohio-based Diebold and the Nebraska-based ES&S. The latter was founded by the Urosevich brothers in 1979 and is headquartered in Omaha, where it has an Ayn Rand–flavored corporate address on John Galt Boulevard. It is also, let us recall, the same company that may have won Chuck Hagel his Senate seat.

Diebold became the most infamous name in the industry in 2003, when its CEO, Walden O’Dell, a top fund-raiser for George W. Bush, made a jaw-dropping public promise to “deliver” Ohio’s electoral votes to Bush. The following year, California banned Diebold’s touchscreen system, and Secretary of State Kevin Shelley blasted the company as “fraudulent,” “despicable,” and “deceitful.” O’Dell stepped down in 2005, right before the filing of a class-action suit that accused Diebold of fraud, insider trading, and slipshod quality control.

Concerned about its tarnished brand, the company removed its label from the front of voting machines. Then Diebold went one step further and changed the name of its voting-machine division to Premier Election Solutions.


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