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In reply to the discussion: Did Anonymous really Save-the-Vote in Ohio? .... REALLY??? [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)That would be ignorant and create a security breach if the single company wanted to somehow engineer a bias.
Instead we have three separate companies that provide voting hardware in Ohio, and if one company's machines uniformly provided uneven results, a red flag would go up and Ohio could simply count the hand marked ballots in a suspected county to verify the integrity of that company's machines. Currently, machines are provided by Diebold, ES&S, and Hart.
A practical guide to the voting machines used in Ohio and how a verified paper trail is produced:
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/Upload/elections/votingsystems.aspx?page=25056#
I have a suggestion. Why not go to your county's elections board and ask if you can be a precinct worker next election. Do it now to get your name on the list for spring. I don't know what state you live in, but perhaps if you witness first hand how devoted fellow election workers are and how many redundant steps are taken to assure ballot integrity, you'll be less prone to think a mere mortal like Karl Rove can flip an election with a keystroke. Plus, they pay you.
If you're still convinced by then that someone is stealing votes from beneath your nose, you'll be in a better position to debate the problem and suggest a fix. Participating certainly opened my eyes to the process, and I learned what most people don't know about election security.