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  1. My small city likely uses the same system. It’s an OCR reader and the ballot is printed on a heavy, index card like, paper. It comes in a security sleeve which covers all but the top of the ballot where a ballot number is.

    When done you go to the machine which has a slot at the top and a counter. A poll worker tears off the ballot number from the top and you slide the top of the ballot into the slot where the machine grabs it, counts the marks you made, indexes the counter, and deposits the ballot in a lock box at the bottom of the machine for safe keeping if a recount is done. You then hand the security sleeve to the poll worker for reuse.

  2. I wrote about this at length on one of neo’s early posts on November 2020’s voting. Audit checks are needed at every step of the way. There should be a pre-check showing how your vote is about to be registered; sort of like when you check out in the grocery line. You see what your purchases and corresponding prices on the screen after the cashier scans your items. If something is wrong, you clear it up then. If it looks good to you then your card is scanned and the purchases become official.

  3. We use something similar in Wake County, NC (Raleigh), but it can’t be AccuVote per se, because we had new machines recently. Voters fill out a ballot printed on paper of consistency similar to a manila folder, and the voter feeds the ballot into the counting machine. Displays pop up if there appear to be “overvotes” for any race, and the voter can decide whether to ignore the problem or have the ballot spit back out to take to the ballot table for a replacement (the original is spoiled).
    I don’t think folded ballots are ever processed.

    This system allowed for a reliable recount, both machine and a select hand recount, of the race for Supreme Court Chief Justice, which was won by 400 votes out of 5 million cast.

  4. According to Howie Carr, the WRKO talk show host, the 2016 election was swung to Maggie Hassan by the college students from MA who were bussed in and voted for her using same day registration, another abomination designed to corrupt the vote

  5. Now let’s have some fun: Going back to the first election after these machines were put into use, how many times have the ballots featured a Democratic candidate’s name at the fold line? And what is the correlation to the resultant tally, over time?

  6. Paul in Boston’s comment leads me to ask: just how many days, weeks, or months prior to an election (including any allowed early voting via physical or mailed in methods) should be the interval for registering to vote?
    You move into a new locale, but perhaps you need a period of time to “know the candidates” and “know the issues”, etc. Is the end of September good enough? Middle of October or end of October?? Seems most places require at least two weeks or more, but I am not sure exactly why that period of time was specified. Clearly only a few days prior to the election is an invitation for fraudulent practice, but are there other reasons for a longer period?

    This web site: https://stacker.com/stories/4484/voting-laws-every-state shows 19 states & DC allowed in person registration on voting day (11/3/20), and most of them, but not all, seem to be blue venues. CA is included, NY is not. The others mostly have in person registration between 10/5/20 and 10/20/20, with a few at 10/31/20. On-line registration (where available) and mail-in registration are usually still limited to some day in October, even when a state allows the 11/3/20 date for in person registration.

  7. Blast from the past – because this post also mentions New Hampshire elections.
    (picked it up after reading the Bowling Alone post) .
    The whole thing is…interesting… and a new speculation to me, but I’ll only excerpt the relevant section.

    https://ammo.com/articles/pete-buttigieg-mayor-pete-cia-asset-naval-intelligence-officer

    The Grayzone has an article that is little more than a list of Mayor Pete’s spook endorsements, which also includes ties to USAID, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. The son of the president of Afghanistan was a senior foreign policy advisor for his campaign.

    Why Mayor Pete? Because much like the spook community’s previous favorite, President Barack Obama (whose partisans continued rear guard action against the Trump Administration through the intel community), Pete is an empty slate with a thin resume and no convictions. His electoral appeal is mostly an imagined yearning of middle America for a gay Christian president, a bizarre fever dream of the media class.

    For what it’s worth, Pete’s backers, be they spooks or not, didn’t seem to take “no” for an answer. Signs point toward 2020’s electoral debacle in Iowa as not the shambling disaster of an incompetent Democratic Party, but as a naked power grab.

    For anyone unaware, the results of the Iowa caucuses took the better part of a week to resolve, thanks to technical difficulties stemming from an app used to tabulate and track voting. The app maker, who claimed they were caught with their pants down because the app wasn’t stress tested (extremely unlikely, as anyone who has ever worked in tech will tell you), had ties to both the Democratic Party and the Buttigieg campaign.

    Could the Iowa debacle have been an intel operation?

    Indeed, the debacle surrounding Shadow (the name of the app used to count and track votes during the Iowa caucuses) had all the marks of a psyop. Rather than fudging the vote numbers (which there is evidence for at the esoteric state delegate equivalent level, where delegates are actually decided), perhaps the goal was simply to allow Buttigieg to declare victory, reap the media whirlwind that results from winning the Iowa caucuses and prevent his chief rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, from doing the same.

    Buttigieg’s campaign was invested in Shadow to the tune of $42,500. Sadly for his campaign, New Hampshire’s elections are more straightforward, with hacking protections firmly in place and thus, much harder to steal.

    Once his campaign for president came to an end in 2020, and Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, it became clear that Mayor Pete would land a spot as a cabinet appointee in the Biden Administration. Although he was considered for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ambassador to China, and Ambassador to the UN, Biden eventually nominated him as his Secretary of Transportation in December of 2020 – with zero prior experience other than being mayor of the not-so-bustling metropolis of South Bend.

    It’s not necessary for Mayor Pete to be a card-carrying CIA agent or a registered asset with a handler straight out of a spy novel. It’s simply sufficient for him to traffic in the same circles, share the same values and be on board with the program. You don’t have to be a spook to do a spook’s job. For those who spend enough time in that world, it simply becomes a matter of habit.

  8. They will let us keep playing with the gestures of “democracy” and “elections” and “voting” to no avail.

    But it doesn’t seem likely that we are ever going to be able to vote ourselves out of this one.

    This one won’t be fixed, if it ever is, by “nice” of any kind.

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