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In reply to the discussion: It is entirely possible votes were tampered with!" [View all]ewagner
(18,964 posts)are hand carried to the clerks office and hand entered into a spreadsheet.
Errors have occurred in this process but they have done two duplicate sheets and checked the data against one another.
True....the readers themselves can be pre-programmed to count more votes for one candidate than another. But there are non-partisan races where that wouldn't make much sense. The programming for each election is done locally and the machines are kept in a vault in City hall. It would take a massive local conspiracy to do any pre-programming.
The voter suppression crap that Walker is pulling is primarily targeted at the major population centers: Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay, Eau Claire etc where there are more minorities and elderly who don't have access to state-issued IDs...and to make sure, he cut down the funding for state drivers licensing offices or cut the hours of operation.
The City Clerk is a friend of mine and I asked how much trouble they had with voter ID in the primary on Feb 20. The answer was that in the entire town we had only ONE PROVISIONAL BALLOT and that was cleared up and counted in the canvas.
I know what the repubs are doing and I hate it but in our antiquated system electronic voter fraud is not obviously present.