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South Carolina Election Reformers Schedule State House Rally
The debate over the integrity of the ballot box in the Palmetto State rolls on …
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“Touting the need for “free, safe elections” that are “secure, transparent and verifiable..”
Translation: Republican lawmakers are attempting more voting suppression and are lying about their motives. (Imagine that?)
If Republicans were serious about fixing their made up problem with voting (that somehow keeps producing Republican super-majorities in SC) they would follow Colorado’s system of voting. All Mail-In ballots, with the option to vote in-person on Election Day. If you mail in or drop off your ballot, you can go to a website and see that your vote has been counted.
Somehow these days, republicans ALWAY restricting voting. Is it because they can’t win a popular election to save their lives? Yes. That’s it exactly.
Absolutely we need transparency! How is a ballot counted now? IS a ballot counted now? How could we verify a ballot is “counted”, when a posted result could be… an estimate? (In fact, it IS an estimate – that is why the law calls for an Audit.
Every vote should count. Massive evidence has been shown to prove elections can and have been manipulated across the US. The machines have been proven to contain modems on board. Our SC canvas reveal, the reveal that only a couple SC lawmakers took time to show up to showed proof of election problems in SC. There are many ways to manipulate the elections and the fact that We The People are refused access to the election machines or a full audit shows there is something to hide. If not then cooperate and show us all the information that has been requested. One day in person paper ballot voting with extenuating circumstances for mail in voting. No ID no vote!!
I agree completely with you Todd. Paper ballots, hand count and one day voting. Make it a national holiday. There was no problem figuring out the winner before midnight in the 70’s.
In the last election, Pennsylvania’s ES&S machines reversed the vote on a Yes/No question. The barcode was printed as a “yes” while the text on the ballot that is fed into the tabulator read “no”. The director explained ““What you read and what the computer reads are two different things. The computer does not read the text that is printed out” This situation alone should prove that there is insufficient controls on our election systems. The barcode could just as easily be printed with the incorrect value while the text leads us to believe our vote is going to be read correctly by the tabulator. Our votes should be as protected as our dollars. Our SEC has nowhere near the Information Technology manpower or experience that is essential in banking. Therefore, the risk of mistakes, fraud, and/or hacking is VERY real. In addition, we are not following our SC Constitution which states that our votes should not be counted in secret.
Wow. Whoa. We are told repeatedly that we HAVE proof of our vote by reading the ballot before we insert it into the tabulator. This means we have NOTING. No proof, not even a vote! PAPER is the way to fix this. PEOPLE don’t read barcode! We don’t need our votes translated into a foreign language! Paper please! English results!