Reply #34: There is a creditable motive. To test the programing of the machines [View All]

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in a real world situation. "They" keep refining these voting machines, making it harder and harder to prove anything is wrong. At the same time they are restricting who can call for recounts and how recounts are done. That is assuming there is a physical record to do a recount from.

Lets not move on till the owners of the machines can prove the machine count is the same as the actual count with a margin of error approaching zero percent.

In fact these machine need to be the property of the local governments and not a private company. The programing needs to be open source. Anyone for a small fee should be able to buy a copy of the program used in any voting machine anywhere in the country to count the votes.

Our elections absolutely must be transparent and they cannot be as long as we allow privately owned computers and secret, copyrighted, proprietary programs to be the final say in elections without any proof, other than the owners say so that they are even counting the votes accurately.

As things stand now, where they use voting machings, we have biased manufactures, biased owners, biased programing and biased control of our elections.

"It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes," Joseph Stalin