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Election Reform

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Stevepol

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Thu May 28, 2015, 06:49 PM May 2015

What does Bernie believe about the ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES? [View all]

Does he have any advisors who know anything about this? I doubt it.

One quite recent book on the subject, CODE RED by Jonathan Simon, gives a good summary of how we got to where we are (where 98% of the vote is counted electronically on computers and are thus virtually unverifiable), where Republicans have become the most powerful party even though every demographic would indicate otherwise, and where the corporations that count the votes keep making sure that any shift away from the pre-election polls or the exit polls is always a RED SHIFT.

I'm with Bernie but I'm afraid I don't believe Hillary is his most serious obstacle to election. And even if by the grace of God he is elected, the people on the lower ends of the ballot, the Reps and the Sens, are the ones that are the most often the ones who are narrowly beaten despite showing stronger in the pre-election polls and in the exit polls. And he will have to have a Senate and a House to work with if he's to do any of the things he wants to do.

About all we mortals can do is pray I guess. The immortals are on the board at Dominion or ES&S. Here's a LTE I wrote recently (200 wds limit) related to this subject:

HAVE WE GIVEN UP ON ELECTION INTEGRITY?

Electronic voting machines are essentially unverifiable. It’s as if we give our vote to a guy who takes our vote into a room, then comes out later and says that he has carefully counted all the votes before shredding them, and here’s the result. Like it or lump it. And yet thousands of elections since computers began counting votes in 1988 have not squared with the exit polls or with other significant measures of validity. In the last election in Kansas, for example, Beth Clarkson, a statistician at WSU, found some marked irregularities in terms of urban/rural deviance and asked to be allowed to study the paper tapes from the voting machines to square them with the precinct results. Kris Kobach would not allow her to do so. We are now at a point where corporations count about 98% of the vote and it’s almost impossible to verify anything. Isn’t it time we joined Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands and trashed the machines in favor of easily verified paper ballots, preferably hand-counted?

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I write about this a lot in FLA. A stronger audit of paper ballots against machine totals is needed. TheNutcracker May 2015 #1
We should make it an issue lovelydestruction Dec 2015 #47
Long past time Vincardog May 2015 #2
Read these links! Baobab May 2016 #48
I would add that people interested should Google William Spoonamore. Dustlawyer Aug 2016 #51
The 'Hursti Hack' of the Optical Scan machines Hacking_Democracy Aug 2016 #52
Thanks for bringing this up. SusanCalvin May 2015 #3
Paper ballots, hand counted, in public, cameras rolling. Nothing less. Scuba May 2015 #4
Yes, yes, yes! kath Jun 2015 #16
Yes Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2015 #19
"Belief" is not enough. Peace Patriot May 2015 #5
Have you ever worked in Early Voting or voting on Election Day? Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #7
That has nothing to do with the vote count accuracy. n/t Wilms Jun 2015 #22
If your claim iscorrect then show the facts, I have presented my information. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #23
Nice try. Wilms Jun 2015 #24
Nice try on your part, this is appearing to be another CT. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #26
. Wilms Jun 2015 #28
. GoneFishin Jun 2015 #29
Guess I have my answer. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #31
Showing the Facts Stevepol Aug 2015 #40
I understand entirely, I need to see some facts and not conspiracy therory. Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #42
It is a FACT that voting machines are UNVERIFIABLE Stevepol Aug 2015 #43
We also found the paper ballots in Florida was not verifible, this has been proven. Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #45
In Florida the printed paper poll tapes are a public record of the election. Hacking_Democracy Aug 2016 #53
It doesn't appear paper ballots helped the DNC in 2000, in fact it cost Gore the election. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #6
Boston uses a paper ballot that you can choose to mark with a pencil--no chad issues--or merrily Jun 2015 #8
Did you know on the Diebold machines you are given a review of your ballot? Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #25
Review is irrelevant unless you have written verification. merrily Jun 2015 #27
Having dealt with pencil strokes for several years I don't find this was an accurate system of Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #33
Testimony in Congress was that it was very easy to program the software to cheat. Not that anyone merrily Jun 2015 #34
Did I say I dealt with pencil strokes on ballots? Louisiana went to electric machines as early as Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #35
The software is easy to rig. That is not even debatable. merrily Jun 2015 #36
Yes, this is why so many people, monitors, companies, grocery stores, etc use computers. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #37
Total non sequitur fail. merrily Jun 2015 #38
When you get a valid argument we can resume. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #39
Banks, grocery stores, etc. Stevepol Aug 2015 #41
What "cost Gore the election" was the US Supreme Court sketchy Jun 2015 #9
I do not engage in CT, electronic voting and counting is more accurate. Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #10
Do you engage in mathematics? sketchy Jun 2015 #11
Are you saying mathematician are not capable of CT? Do you think paper ballots can not be Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #12
No, I am not saying "mathematician are not capable of CT" sketchy Jun 2015 #13
Do Democrats care enough to demand that the votes are never left alone in the hands Cal33 Jun 2015 #15
Are you serious? Hiw long have you been voting electronically or with Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #17
If there are both Dem. and Repub. people present at all times with the votes, the Cal33 Jun 2015 #20
Here's an interesting event you may enjoy reading Stevepol Aug 2015 #44
Nothing new here, the what ifs has not been proven. Apparently you do not like voting machines, I Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #46
The voting machine totals can be rigged to match the voter sign in books. Hacking_Democracy Aug 2016 #49
This message was self-deleted by its author Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #50
I've been harping on this for years, and the Democratic Party hasn't Cal33 Jun 2015 #14
I suspect that they have benefitted in some more convoluted way. Maybe it helps in their primary GoneFishin Jun 2015 #32
This is actually one of the few things that NC has gotten right. Persondem Jun 2015 #18
fair 1STWURLDVIEW Jun 2015 #21
We need a paper record verified by the voter, on hand, available for a recount. Period. Anybody who GoneFishin Jun 2015 #30
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