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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy dream - the recounts show widescale cheating - a disaster of Biblical proportions
eleny
(46,166 posts)It's driven him up the Twitter wall and the web is rich with speculation that he's daffy.
It got under his paper thin skin and given him a bigly itch.
Jersey Devil
(9,862 posts)I think the result will be that no one takes him seriously, but I also worry it will make him more dangerous (though it appears he doesn't need any help in that department).
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)Jersey Devil
(9,862 posts)When I lived in NJ we had computerized voting machines and one year our (Dems) local Council candidate lost by 1 vote (out of about 7,000 total votes). The machines give you only a total on a small thermal tape that looks like it came out of a cash register. There is no record of individual votes. We (I was the Dem campaign manager) had several complaints from voters that the machines were "flipping" their votes, that when they pressed the button to light up their votes next to our candidate, instead the light next to the Republican lit up. They tried over and over again and some even asked for help before the machine could be corrected. But we worried that some people probably gave up (resulting in an undervote) and some probably didn't even notice.
This year I moved to North Carolina and our vote was on paper, scanned into a tabulator and the paper ballot kept. I was happy about that but then I learned that in NC each county can decide what machines they use. Some have what I had, some had computerized machines of various sorts. There are 100 counties in NC, so that possibility exists that there can be many voting districts that have good records of votes and many that have nothing. In the 21st century in the USA this is mind boggling.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)I've posted this before - in our Florida county the supervisor of elections has always programmed the scanners to kick out the ballots immediately if there are any problems such as over or under votes. Since the voters feed their own ballots into the scanners they are given the opportunity to correct their ballot or receive a new one if it is kicked out.
In 2000 the neighboring county did not program their scanners to kick out the bad ballots immediately. As a result that county had a much higher percentage of "bad ballots" even though they used the same voting method and machines. For the recount our supervisor of elections helped the supervisor in that neighboring county to reprogram their scanners to kick out the "bad ballots." Then those could be accessed visually to see what the problem was. That reduced the over and under votes by a big margin.
I do like the paper ballots and properly programmed optical scanners. The scanners allow for fast counting - and for screening the ballots for potential problems - but we still have those paper ballots which can be easily hand counted if necessary!
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... outraged at GOP for a couple of generations