Reply #13: Optical scanners worked fine? Do you mean for ES&S? [View All]

[shance]

Once ANY ballot data is entered into an optical scanner, the manipulation can be programmed in to occur, so essentially the votes then become invalid because we cannot know after the ballots have been recorded if they have been manipulated or not.

To say the optiscans worked "fine", is like saying the machines are working "fine". Fine according to whom? Fine according to those who are counting the votes electronically? Perhaps.

There is no way for poll workers to know once the data enters the tabulator if the votes were manipulated. The same potential for fraud happens just as easily with an optical scanner.