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Only If our elections are protected with paper ballots... (Original Post) pbmus Jun 2019 OP
No hard evidence of vote hacking... brooklynite Jun 2019 #1
You already know that vote hacking isn't the only way to turn an election in the US uponit7771 Jun 2019 #3
I'm responding to the OPs comment brooklynite Jun 2019 #5
Several thoughts: Qutzupalotl Jun 2019 #4
No, it wasn't... brooklynite Jun 2019 #6
We won 40 seats in the house. Qutzupalotl Jun 2019 #7
No, Florida districts were hacked and without tracking provisional ballot anomalies... uponit7771 Jun 2019 #8
There was no US Senate race in Georgia last year... tritsofme Jun 2019 #12
i am dying to see mopinko Jun 2019 #2
And paper ballots are not enough. They get added up & stored in electronic format. CaptainTruth Jun 2019 #9
To your point.. pbmus Jun 2019 #10
This is why I use paper ballots marked by hand in MO. And we expanded the use of paper ... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #11

brooklynite

(94,572 posts)
1. No hard evidence of vote hacking...
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 01:57 PM
Jun 2019

I you believe it's possible, how did the Republicans let us win back the House?

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
3. You already know that vote hacking isn't the only way to turn an election in the US
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:10 PM
Jun 2019

... please stop this how to turn a u.s. election has been gone over at nauseam on this site.

... And no no one has tracked provisional ballot anomalies.

there's no reason to believe 2020 will be more free and fair than 2016 or 2018 state-level Senate races in red States

Qutzupalotl

(14,311 posts)
4. Several thoughts:
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:14 PM
Jun 2019

1. 2018 was an overwhelming wave election, which could have diluted any attempted interference.
2. Elections can be manipulated solely through altering voting roll names and addresses, nullifying targeted voters without directly changing vote totals.
3. It might not be just Republicans interfering. See below.

Robert Mueller’s report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election describes how Kremlin-backed spies installed malware on the network of an unnamed company that “developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/c5af3e278da6436ab7bd154d968ab2ed

brooklynite

(94,572 posts)
6. No, it wasn't...
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:16 PM
Jun 2019

In AGGREGATE you can say that, but it was an immense series of individual races, some close, some not.

Qutzupalotl

(14,311 posts)
7. We won 40 seats in the house.
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:20 PM
Jun 2019

And voters were told to check their registration frequently, unlike in 2016.

Expediency requires that I not list every race but only speak in aggregate. I’m afraid you missed my point.

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
8. No, Florida districts were hacked and without tracking provisional ballot anomalies...
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:20 PM
Jun 2019

.... Then there's no reason to believe it was free and fair.

Also,

Republicans kept control of the Senate because of the cheating in Florida and Georgia

mopinko

(70,106 posts)
2. i am dying to see
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:06 PM
Jun 2019

just how far apart the polls and the results are in the places that are smart enough to secure their elections, and those where they wont.

we might finally have proof that the gap w exit polls actually is a mark of a corrupt election.
the american taliban is in deep shit once we prove that.

CaptainTruth

(6,591 posts)
9. And paper ballots are not enough. They get added up & stored in electronic format.
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 02:23 PM
Jun 2019

There have been plenty of cases where those totals have been changed. I want a way to anonymously track an individual's votes from paper ballot to final official vote total, so each voter can verify their votes were correctly counted in the final official total.

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
11. This is why I use paper ballots marked by hand in MO. And we expanded the use of paper ...
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 03:15 PM
Jun 2019

ballots too in MO to counter hacking possibilities too. Every step counts in safeguarding our ballots.

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