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Re: Get out & Vote is BS

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 12 Nov 22 5:15 PM | 28 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 37341 of 58636
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Re: “Voters were told to go to other locations to vote. But were not allowed to vote at the new location because they had already signed in at the original location.. so they didn’t get to vote.”New Hampshire has paper ballots. I find that reassuring. Paper ballots don't break. They don't malfunction.

I know I've told this story before, but...

Around 2014, I was living in Virginia but was going to be in New Hampshire on election day, so my wife and I voted early at a center Fairfax county had established. The place was almost empty... just a couple of election people were there to provide guidance. I went to a booth to vote (electronically) as did my wife. I was done in 2-minutes. We thanked the officials and walked out.

In the parking lot, I told my wife how surprised I was at the sparse "ballot." "Not a single bond or initiative," I said.

"No, there were quite a few," she replied.

I was stunned. "What? WHERE?" I asked.

"On the second screen," she replied.

"There was no second screen!" I said.

I knew then what had happened. The program had asked me to vote on a state legislator or councilman, observed that I was conservative, and then opted to NOT ask me about the bonds and initiatives. It didn't do that to my wife - which was pretty smart since it made any claim of election fraud very difficult to prove. In any group of 100 people, perhaps only one or two would experience what I did. They'd look foolish complaining about it in the presence of just eight or nine fellow voters, all of whom would deny what the nutcase was claiming. But one or two (or maybe five or six) percent of conservative votes taken away in this manner from several liberal initiatives could EASILY sway the outcome. Wow.

I went back in and complained to the election officials. They said they had received no other complaints. And no, there was no way to go to the machine and see that what I was suggesting had actually happened.

But I know it did. And if I hadn't chanced to speak to my wife about how small the number of issues was I wouldn't have known either. After all, Fairfax is different from other places I've lived. It doesn't send voters a brochure ahead of time telling them what they'll be voting on. So this was an almost perfect crime.







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Get out & Vote is BS
By: ctj1950 in 6TH POPE
Sat, 12 Nov 22 3:08 PM 		Msg. 37331 of 58636

Your vote doesn’t matter

Maricopa County says 70 out of its 223 voting locations were impacted by printer problems on Tuesday.

Heavy Republican locations.

Voters were told to go to other locations to vote. But were not allowed to vote at the new location because they had already signed in at the original location.. so they didn’t get to vote.

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