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No one is defending against voter fraud and tampering. Where is the DOJ?
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I was ecstatic when I learned that the creator of the now know as "multi-touch" landed a contract with Apple. At the time I had now idea why Apple would want that but I could see the potential of it and I was pumped that somebody saw the value of it when no other company would. Now the reason they did is obvious -- the iPhone was created with a license on his patent.
Given the straight forward nature of calibrating a touch screen -- you have to follow onscreen instructions and tap it 5 times, I have little doubt people with very little understanding of computer mechanics are the ones doing that calibration.
THAT is the delivery of a message that's needed and wanted immediately. Youtube and such is a way to get five minutes of fame or a million hits, but doesn't affect anything immediately.
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Plus... think of the embarrassment to the federals when a stable currency exposed the inflation of the fiat dollar... sure, our lowest average wage (note I did not say "minimum wage" which is an illogical attempt to prop up failing currency through feel-good sham-artistry) is 45¢ an hour... but our J-Buck (Bucksaw?) is worth about 24 of yours. And even then - our buck is still worth more - as it's an actual negotiable monetary instrument, not a piece of funny-money paper - than your $24. We would become not unlike the British Pound Sterling before they got sold up the river by the Fiat Manipulators...
The first move is to get people off the Koolaid they've been fed for years - that all they can hope for is welfare at the hands of the south, and that alone we'd never make it, that "we'd be the poorest state there is", etc. ad nauseum. We may not be as rich as California, but... and this is the biggie - we wouldn't have to rely on them for their handouts while letting them suck our water and resources dry.
It's why we're pushing for Jefferson here in NE Cali, and I'm kinda surprised northern Washoe hasn't already seceeded from the rest of the county (maybe become part of Pershing or ??) to join us. :-)
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"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this--who will count the vote, and how."
Joseph Stalin
I have noticed that not every polling place has judges - the rules are certainly different from state to state - and the state officials who are present should take care of any problems they're told about, but.....
I thought it would be 2 more years before we lost our voting rights through some "problem". prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Now, Elko County is a rural very low population part of Nevada and pretty much a Republican stronghold. So, maybe no tampered (excuse me - "calibrated") machines here. But, of course, we feel rather estranged and helpless when we can do nothing about Harry Reid. Elko County is also the third largest County in the US.
Remember, this race they are likely to lose the majority in both houses, so they will stop at nothing to keep that from happening.
General rule of voting: Vote against all incumbents unless you have a good reason to vote YES, because turnover is better than entrenchment. All politicians are like baby diapers. They should be changed regularly and for the same reason...
Big bone of contention - a lot of "local" judges on this ballot. Not a one of the candidates - Zero - submitted anything saying what their qualifications were, why they wanted to be judge, etc... I suspect they expected to be Carte Blanched in just because they were on the ballot... I figure if they can't spend 15-30 minutes of their time, even if it's while they're falling asleep at night, or driving to and from the courthouse or office, to come up with a couple dozen words on what they bring to the table... On why they are a viable candidate, for a job with incredible responsibility and consequences if done wrong - they won't put the 15 to 30 minutes in on an important case that may be before them. They want a moocher's free ride to the job - and I won't give it to them.
Years ago when I lived in Virginia, I volunteered as an election worker for 4 or 5 straight years (local/state elections are in off-years between federal elections in Virginia). Most of those years, our precinct was still using ancient mechanical lever voting machines, which are almost extinct given lack of replacement parts. The last year I volunteered, we switched to new electronic voting machines, as one of the first in the state. It went well.
Electronic voting machines are first calibrated and tested by the private company supplying each machine. Then, by Virginia law, the local county Board of Elections tests and calibrates each machine before each election. All machines are stored in a controlled area under lock-and-key, with limited access to county election officials. At the start of election day, precinct election workers (volunteers like I was), startup each machine and check the count registers to ensure zeros in every office. Recalibration of the screen is not possible for local precinct election workers, due to limited security access. This is also a first opportunity to discover a screen calibration error (not supposed to be), when selecting the next screen toggle button (albeit usually larger than vote toggle buttons) to scroll to the next summary tally screen.
When the first voters use the electronic voting machine, any screen calibration errors that are discovered and reported to the election workers results in immediate sidelining and non-use of that machine. A call is made to the county Board of Elections to report the errant machine, while documenting the situation in the precinct paperwork. Any vote tallies from that machine are reported in a separate tally for further investigation by the county Board of Elections.
In a close election, if questionable votes (from these sidelined machines, from challenge paper ballots, problem absentee ballots, etc...) would be the determining factor in the election, that would be grounds for a later revote of the office(s) in question.
So, any faulty screen calibration of an electronic voting machine is primarily the fault of the local county Board of Elections, either due to incompetence, laziness, or intentional shenanigans. Local precincts are intentionally staffed with volunteer election workers representing both parties, as evenly as possible, based on whoever volunteers. Having gone through that experience, I can say that intentional and successful vote fraud by local volunteer precinct election workers is the least likely source. That's not to say that the one party machine in Chicago meets the same standards as Virginia, however...
In reality, every voting system has a certain level of counting accuracy. Optical scan paper ballots are likely still the best, in terms of counting accuracy and least likely for calibration errors introduced by the county Board of Elections.
From a purely statistical standpoint, any election with a vote difference that is within the margin of counting accuracy of the voting machines should not even have a winner called. But that's not how most election laws are written. They expect perfect counting accuracy and the ability to differentiate a winner who only has 1 more vote than his/her nearest opponent.
As an engineer who appreciates measurement uncertainty inherent in all measurement systems (including voting systems), I find that misuse pathetic and laughable. In reality, any close election that is within a few tenths of a percent (perhaps 0.5%) should automatically be revoted in a later runoff election. If that runoff has no statistically clear winner, then perhaps a round of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock should be used to decide a winner...
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