We've Got Another Case of Thumb Drives Flipping Votes in an Election - Granite Grok

We’ve Got Another Case of Thumb Drives Flipping Votes in an Election

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Just ask anybody responsible for ensuring faith in our elections, and they’ll tell you those electronic ballot counting contraptions are the bomb diggity. They are friggin bullet-proof Boy Scouts, doing their best to do their duty, to whoever programs them, before God and their country.

Or not.

We’ve seen more than a few incidents where these digital watchdogs of the secret ballot didn’t do the job and by a significant margin. But if you dare bring up something like vote-flipping, they’ll tell you it’s a fairy story even when it keeps happening.

 

Cherokee County, KS’s election was held last Tuesday on August 2nd.  During a post election audit, they discovered that the thumb drives used in the election flipped the votes cast for District 1 County Commissioner Myra Frazier and instead gave them to her opponent, Lance Nichols, who was initially declared the winner.

The software was improperly programmed, and the machine just gave votes for one candidate to another. A simple coding error that, it seems to me, can appear anywhere it is wanted.

As for that screw-up in Kansas? State law requires poll workers to audit certain races based on the type and year of the election.

 

“…since the only race alleged to be impacted by this questionable explanation of a “compromised thumb drive” was a county commissioner race, it is a pure fluke that that was one of the races selected to be audited.  Had any other race been selected, the results of this race would have gone unaltered and entirely against the will of the People of Cherokee County, KS.  Much like Antrim, where it was picked up the next morning by a local constituent who voiced his concern.  Or Dekalb, where it was only caught because the candidate showed zero votes in her own precinct.  Or Williamson, TN where a poll worker was keeping a tally of the ballots counted on a pad of paper and realized the tabulator tapes at the end of the night were way off.”

 

We had the Windham Incident explained away. There were issues in Derry, Merrimack (uninvestigated), and likely other towns. Problems are popping up all over the nation. In other words, voting integrity is still suspect. And the Left, the media, and stooges in the Sununu wing of the Republican party won’t touch the question because claiming election irregularities is domestic terrorism. But we still have to ask.

If these “machines” are so reliable, why do we keep encountering these issues, like an entire election flipped because the machine stole votes for one candidate and gave them to another? A flip that doesn’t happen unless someone tells the machine to do that.

And more importantly, much like what they are doing to public health, who gains by ensuring that the institution is so corrupted that (inevitably) no one trusts it?

 

 

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