The only large voting machine company that Trump did not go after was ES&S

[LiberalArkie]

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services.[1] The company's offerings include vote tabulators, direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines, voter registration and election management systems, ballot-marking devices, electronic poll books, Ballot on Demand printing services, and absentee voting-by-mail services.

ES&S is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC. In 2014, ES&S was the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the United States, claiming customers in 4,500 localities in 42 states and two U.S. territories.[citation needed] As of 2014, the company had more than 450 employees, more than 200 of whom are located in Omaha.

In 2014, ES&S claimed that "in the past decade alone," it had installed more than 260,000 voting systems, more than 15,000 electronic poll books, provided services to more than 75,000 elections. The company has installed statewide voting systems in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia.


Seemed nice when I used it.

[scarletwoman]

1. Minnesota uses paper ballots only, not electronic voting machines.

Where did you get your information?

[LiberalArkie]

3. This uses a touch panel to print a paper ballot for you... from Wikipedia

[Mister Ed]

7. We have one of those in each MN polling place for use by voters with a disability...

...that prevents them from filling in a ballot by hand.

[scarletwoman]

8. It's an option, but you can also just fill out your ballot by hand.

In any case, the touch panel does not record your vote - it's not the same thing as an electronic voting machine that records your vote internally.

I live in Minnesota, so I do know whereof I speak.

[LiberalArkie]

9. No it does not record it. You can read what the touch panel produces and verify yourself

and then you place it into the tabulator that totals the ballots. Te recount you run the paper cards back through or hand count the cards..

[bullimiami]

14. We have those in nc. Touchscreen prints paper ballot. Human readable. You take that to the scanner.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Here is my paper ballot from an ES&S machine

[Mister Ed]

10. Is that a ballot or a receipt?

I'm not sure myself. I guess the difference is, if you keep it, it's a receipt. If it's kept at the polling place, and fed into a counting machine or counted it by hand, then it's a ballot.

[LiberalArkie]

11. It is the ballot that was printed when I voted on the display. You can verify it yourself and then

the tabulator reads it and counts it.. Its stays locked in the tabular in case of a recount.

[Mister Ed]

13. Excellent. Paper ballots are much better than just paper receipts. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

16. Receipts that show your vote

are generally illegal in the U.S. If you can prove who you voted for, your vote can be bought/sold.

[Mister Ed]

17. Thanks. I should have thought of that. n/t

[Grasswire2]

20. that is a herring. nt

[Ms. Toad]

21. Pretty sure I have more experience in election administration and election law than you do. n/t

[scarletwoman]

12. That's a receipt, not a ballot.

If a Minnesotan chooses to use the touch panel machine, what gets printed out is an actual ballot, which the voter then drops into the ballot box - same as the other ballots that are filled out by hand.

Once the ballot box is emptied, the ballots are run through a scanner to be tabulated.

[Ms. Toad]

15. Minnesota uses Dominion, ES&S, and Hart

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/how-elections-work/voting-equipment/

All paper ballots are still read and tabulated electronically. In Minnesota, some of the voting machines that read and tabulate your paper ballot come from ES&S.

[patricia92243]

2. No Pennsylvania so Trump doesn't care.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Aren't most of the states Red?

[nuxvomica]

5. Kentucky also

Their counties use either ES&S or Hart InterCivic.

[Lucinda]

18. So that is the one they try to use then? n/t

[Grasswire2]

19. elections expert Jennifer Cohn tells us that Trump World is shielding ES&S...

...because they are the real culprit.

I could tell you something I discovered about ES&S back two decades ago when I was digging info about it that is hair raising. Jennifer has that info now.

[LiberalArkie]

22. It seems to be well thought out new type hardware, but the tabulators in all the systems are the

weak point. Generally for a recount they run the cards back though the same tabulators ( and get the same result). But it has the ability to not lie by counting all the cards themselves and thus putting all the errors on the person doing the programming.