Reply #4: It's an important point... [View All]

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...many posters on here seem to be convinced that the punch cards and optiscan ballots that are eventually made available for recounting are 100% the genuine article, the same ones used by voters on election day to record their votes.

But I'm not at all convinced of this. All you would need for a virtually undetectable scam is to swap out the real ballots for the fake ones that validate your "results". Without doing this, you are vulnerable to discovery. But if you can pull off a swap, or a related technique (adding ballots, destroying ballots...) you really could execute the "perfect crime". Especially if after the fact, the ballots themselves can't be forensically examined.

All you need is to know the right people and have enough time. Even easier in the case of punch cards as these can be punched by machine.