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Nothing to see here folks. Nothing at all. It's *hyperbole* to even suggest (Original Post) LaydeeBug May 2017 OP
Kick this everywhere! Squinch May 2017 #1
Since there is no way to detect if votes have been altered, no point in worrying about it. L. Coyote May 2017 #24
I was called out for my "tinfoil speculations" in this DU thread bathroommonkey76 May 2017 #28
Buy a can of this: L. Coyote May 2017 #32
But the person who said this to me has over 10,000 posts on DU lol bathroommonkey76 May 2017 #34
O.K., buy two cans. L. Coyote May 2017 #35
Hee!. . . . n/t annabanana May 2017 #36
Getting up off the floor malaise May 2017 #37
Kick! gademocrat7 May 2017 #2
Kicked. nt GP6971 May 2017 #3
The election was stolen by on the ground russian agents and gop operatives. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #4
THIS MoonRiver May 2017 #12
Agree completely BadgerMom May 2017 #31
all day long. nt LaydeeBug May 2017 #39
At least in that example, there's are paper ballots that could be rechecked... PoliticAverse May 2017 #5
Why the FUCK is there a computer between me and my vote? Blues Heron May 2017 #6
Chain of Custody heh not really... Volaris May 2017 #8
Google Spoonamore electronic vote hacking. Dustlawyer May 2017 #7
Yep! I live in PA and I have no idea what happens when I vote on computer screen JoeOtterbein May 2017 #9
There is a printer? keithbvadu2 May 2017 #10
We, as a country, are burying our heads in the sand - and Putin's laughing all the way to the bank tenorly May 2017 #11
Yep, and this is why I'm so glad France is hand counting their votes. iluvtennis May 2017 #13
Another video by two Princeton University computer science professors iluvtennis May 2017 #14
President Kerry should have addressed this RVN VET71 May 2017 #15
President Gore should have addressed it too. Voting machine "irregulaties" in FL 2000 which Amaryllis May 2017 #19
Truth about election rigging in US - Truthout Amaryllis May 2017 #16
So hoe many elections have been stolen or rigged. DK504 May 2017 #17
before we stop letting them wedge us and start getting united. This. keeps. happening. LaydeeBug May 2017 #42
More: Amaryllis May 2017 #18
Someone needs to warn Ossoff about the paperles Diebold machines in GA. He should be prepared to Amaryllis May 2017 #20
K&R... spanone May 2017 #21
You are just being paranoid, LaydeeBug. Amaryllis May 2017 #22
I saw a DRE flipping votes in Fl in 2004...this stuff has been real for two decades. Sancho May 2017 #23
Are you like me? dchill May 2017 #25
Yep. Where is Meredicth McIver? LaydeeBug May 2017 #40
Who here remembers when the order came down from on high at DU to be hush about this? DRoseDARs May 2017 #26
Robbed. Plain and simple. JDC May 2017 #27
This needs to be sent to Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi Sculpin Beauregard May 2017 #29
Kicking. love_katz May 2017 #30
K&R tallahasseedem May 2017 #33
And what are Dems doing about it malaise May 2017 #38
They are to busy looking down at the cellphones bathroommonkey76 May 2017 #41

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
24. Since there is no way to detect if votes have been altered, no point in worrying about it.
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:33 PM
May 2017

It is best to acquiesce silently to our minority overlords and not complain as they restore slavery and end democracy, otherwise we might be called conspiracy nuts.

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
28. I was called out for my "tinfoil speculations" in this DU thread
Sat May 6, 2017, 01:08 PM
May 2017
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1069&pid=7240

Dem candidates for governor and POTUS always win Martin County, NC.

BRB I need to adjust my tinfoil antenna. lol

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
4. The election was stolen by on the ground russian agents and gop operatives.
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:26 AM
May 2017

No matter how annoying you might think Hillary's laugh is, those states didnt ALL OF A SUDDEN flip from blue to red.

The election was stolen.

BadgerMom

(2,771 posts)
31. Agree completely
Sat May 6, 2017, 01:14 PM
May 2017

The fact that even questioning if such a thing could have happened was strictly NOT ALLOWED. Nonetheless it was the overwhelmingly obvious answer to the questions my mind was asking election night. I now believe that control of discussion is part of an elaborate coverup. If Democrats question the result they are ostracized or treated as though they are fools or Luddites. Yet I've read very sober examinations of these systems where the research is detached from any actual results and experts find vast problems, such as these in the video, in these systems. We need to take a step back and proceed with caution once Democrats have a modicum of control again.

I vote in California and read somewhere prior to the election that when one of our more recent Secretaries of State in California took over the job they had a blue ribbon panel of computer experts from Stanford, Cal, and Cal Tech examine voting machines and vote tallying systems in the state. Could the totals be changed? The answer was yes, of course. So the experts helped with the decision about what mechanization to keep and what to scuttle. California vote totals are slow to be reported, but not hackable. I so, so wish I had saved the article, but I didn't.

One of the dumbest, most frustrating things elected Democrats do once they're in office is underestimate the evil in their Republican peers.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
5. At least in that example, there's are paper ballots that could be rechecked...
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:32 AM
May 2017

(provided they are saved and securely stored).

Blues Heron

(5,938 posts)
6. Why the FUCK is there a computer between me and my vote?
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:46 AM
May 2017

The decision to insert computers into the chain of custody of ballots will be seen as the effective ending of democracy in this country.

Pencil, paper, hand counted ballots. Nothing less. LIVE FREE OR DIEBOLD

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
8. Chain of Custody heh not really...
Sat May 6, 2017, 11:34 AM
May 2017

When I give somebody a cup to pee in for my other job, there's at least 3 copies of that piece of paper, with 2 signarures FROM BOTH PEOPLE.
Chain of Custody, my ass.

Pee, apperently, is more important to us than People.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
7. Google Spoonamore electronic vote hacking.
Sat May 6, 2017, 10:49 AM
May 2017

There are several ways to hack an election and the actual voting machines are only one. Spoonamore is a Republican who works for the banks catching electronic credit card fraud around the world.

They can and have used a "King computer" to pose as both the central tabulation computer and the individual precincts. The computer gets inserted in the loop between the precinct computers and the central computer. it receives the votes from the precincts, manipulates the votes and then reports to the actual central tabulation computer and viola, stolen election.

JoeOtterbein

(7,702 posts)
9. Yep! I live in PA and I have no idea what happens when I vote on computer screen
Sat May 6, 2017, 11:47 AM
May 2017

flip a few votes from each computer. Win the electoral college!

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
10. There is a printer?
Sat May 6, 2017, 11:55 AM
May 2017

Weren't we told that printers were way too expensive to install?

Guess they figured a way to cheat that, too.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
11. We, as a country, are burying our heads in the sand - and Putin's laughing all the way to the bank
Sat May 6, 2017, 11:59 AM
May 2017

I've lost count of the times I've heard or read somebody - even a few here on DU - assert that "we can't possibly admit that the vote itself was hacked because that would undermine people's faith in our democracy."

RVN VET71

(2,692 posts)
15. President Kerry should have addressed this
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:07 PM
May 2017

2000 was an election stolen by the Supremes. But 2004 was the dirtiest in memory, and even our gutless, ball-less media said some very, admittedly timid, things about how the exit polls (that had always in the past been accurate indicators of the winners, and that showed Kerry winning by significantly large margins in Ohio and other States he lost) were strangely off the mark in that election.

No effort was made -- or no vigorous effort, in any case -- in 2004 to stop Diebold's machines from being used, despite numerous serious questions about their vulnerability to hacking. Few questions were asked. The cheating was swept under the rug of GOP corruption.

And the result was 4 more years for President Cheney to kill arabs and rake in billions for his old company, Halliburton. (Of course, had Kerry been permitted to win, he would have presided over the collapse of the economy and would have had to deal with the scandal arising from John Edwards adultery. Whether he would have won a second term in 2008 would not have been a certainty, by any means; and that could well have meant President McCain and Vice President Hockeymom. But, that said, it would still have been worth it if it meant honest results and an election system untarnished by traitors in Ohio and other States.)

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
19. President Gore should have addressed it too. Voting machine "irregulaties" in FL 2000 which
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:15 PM
May 2017

Bush "won" by less than 1000 votes.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
17. So hoe many elections have been stolen or rigged.
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:11 PM
May 2017

Our democracy has been stolen, the media needs to show this clip on every "news" show every day. We have known since The Shrub's election. Diebold machines are every where, the scariest is the ATM's. The ability to hack these machines is right there.

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
20. Someone needs to warn Ossoff about the paperles Diebold machines in GA. He should be prepared to
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:17 PM
May 2017

demand a forensic audit if he "loses."

spanone

(135,844 posts)
21. K&R...
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:17 PM
May 2017

proof you don't need people voting multiple times to steal an election.

this is depressing as hell.

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
23. I saw a DRE flipping votes in Fl in 2004...this stuff has been real for two decades.
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:29 PM
May 2017

I don't have any doubt that the Russians, the GOP, and others have hacked elections since Gore beat Bush.

dchill

(38,505 posts)
25. Are you like me?
Sat May 6, 2017, 12:41 PM
May 2017

Do you think that the MSM are aware that they're not telling the truth? That they deliberately mislead us about how "the polls were wrong?"

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
26. Who here remembers when the order came down from on high at DU to be hush about this?
Sat May 6, 2017, 01:02 PM
May 2017

That we were becoming more noticed by the mainstream of US society? That such views made us look conspiratorial and wacky? Too much to the left? We knew THEN this system was corrupt and ripe for abuse. The Russians figured it out too. This site was FOUNDED on the notion that the 2000 election was stolen outright! But no, shush, we don't want to scare away Independants...



Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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