If this were a democracy, every vote would have a paper receipt.

we vote by mail. I wish every state did this.

To others, I say this: investigate what it takes to change HOW your state votes. Start action committees. If necessary, file petitions. Get those signatures. Take it to the Legislature. But, get those changes made.

We have GOT to have a unified system of voting in this country that is tamper-proof. One of these days, that is going to be VITAL to saving our democracy.

How can this continue??

This is much more likely the result of sloppily calibrated machines buy patronage election workers. If you're brilliant enough to program machines to flip votes, you're brilliant enough not to tip off the voter.

cast. Voting cannot be "observed" when computers are part of the voting process- whether the computer is recording votes or tabulating them. The software is proprietary and the machines are never checked for defects, malicious code, etc.

BTW what is a "patronage election worker" ?

oversee the counting, tabulating or reporting of votes in these states were no paper is used

Why is it that there never seems to be bad touch screen calibrations that seem to favor Democrats? Why do you assume something was sloppily done as opposed to being intentionally miscalibrated?

It's just an amazing coincidence that the only reports of vote-changing just happen to be Democrat-to-Republican.

These never ending "oopsies" always favor the Repubs, Always. That's not an accident.

But I'm sure anonymous bloggers know more that a major voting rights institution

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/10/only-paper-ballots-by-2020-call-experts-after-election-tampering/


An expert panel at the National Academy of Sciences has called for sweeping election reforms, including one, specific recommendation that should come as no surprise: use paper.

From Thursday’s announcement about the report’s release:

All local, state, and federal elections should be conducted using human-readable paper ballots by the 2020 presidential election.

And what about the mid-terms, right around the corner in November? Yes, let’s try to get paper ballots for that one, too, the panel said. Let’s try our best to stay away from all the technologies that we’ve got in place now, because they’re full of holes:

Ballots that have been marked by voters should not be returned over the internet or any network connected to it, because no current technology can guarantee their secrecy, security, and verifiability.

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Given that the indictment mentions five times the number of affected voters than we’d heard about in the Illinois breach, it’s looking like the 2016 tampering “went deeper than we’d understood,” Norden said. As Wired’s Kim Zetter has pointed out, the indictments suggest that the 2016 attacks may have been an afterthought, given that the vendor and state board of election attacks came mid-election, in June through October 2016, months after the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Norden:

We would be wise to assume future attacks will involve more advanced planning. Combine this with the fact that the Russians undoubtedly learned information from their 2016 efforts, and there is reason to believe future attacks on our election infrastructure could be far more damaging.

As of March 2018, 13 states were still using at least some direct-recording electronic voting machines, that lack a paper trail, as their primary polling place equipment, “making audits in these states impossible.” Norden reports.

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the point is NO ONE KNOWS if the count the machine spits out is accurate or not

with out proof or a confession the center can not attribute the inaccuracy to cheating when it could just be the machines are poor products but

what we do know is these inaccurate machines have been deliberately left in place for over a decade since the problem has been discovered

everyone will know it, and nothing will happen. it's too frustrating for words, and so WRONG.

Unless...so many, many people vote for Abrams it won't work.

stress case here.

That's how they track how people have voted. The name of the voter is recorded somewhere.

I hope there's a way to confirm the votes. Such a waste of time and effort and money...just trying to have a fair election. Farrightwingnut America.

No paper trail. The entire system is designed for vote stealing.

proceeding to vote! Are there any Democrats around there that can do this?