Dominion spokesman: 'It is not physically possible for our machines to switch votes from one candida
Source: The Hill
A spokesperson Dominion Voting Systems addressed conspiracy theories about the company on Fox News Sunday, saying it was not physically possible for its machines to change voter selections.
This is a nonpartisan American company. It is not physically possible for our machines to switch votes from one candidate to the other, Michael Steel said on Fox News Americas News HQ Sunday.
Let's be very clear, our election system is run by local elected officials and nonpartisan poll watchers. We simply provide a tool to count the ballots and to print and count ballots, he added. There is no way such a massive fraud could have taken place and there are no connections between our company and Venezuela, Germany, Barcelona, Kathmandu, whatever the latest conspiracy theory is.
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Pressed by Fox News Eric Shawn as to how he could be sure the voting machines were secure, Steel responded [W]hen a voter votes on a Dominion machine, they fill out their ballot on the touchscreen, they are given a printed copy which they then give to a local election official for safekeeping.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/527086-dominion-spokesman-it-is-not-physically-possible-for-our-machines-to-switch
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)which is scanned, then stored in a locked container and sealed fpr transport to the Elections office. The touch screen has no memory and the counting is handled separately. The scanner itself goes back to the Elections Office with the ballots and the electronic poll books which are used for checking in the voters. When we check the voter in, a little piece of paper is printed with a barcode. The barcode is scanned and the voter receives an access code, which brings up the correct ballot for that voter
This system allows us to vote at any precinct in the county on Election Day; not just our "home precincts" That means we had 300 voting locations on Election Day.
Harris County (Houston) had 800.
rainin
(3,010 posts)shows a record of the voter's choices along with a bar code. How do I know the bar code matches the words. When audits are done, are they audited by hand or by machine?
I've always thought the paper ballot should have words only. In the event of a recount or an audit, it should be by hand only, not by machine. It's the only way that is virtually 100% hack proof.
Politicub
(12,163 posts)validated that the machine counts were correct.
I had the same concern as you until the hand audit was done. Now I have more confidence in the new system. Our old system left no paper trail - it was truly a black box.
Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)Maybe God changed the ballots.
God is part of the conspiracy.
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)In any case, it will take and act of God for Trump to pull off his coup.
DBoon
(22,286 posts)So obviously satanic influences are responsible for shifting votes to Biden.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Diebold machines should be outlawed.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)stopdiggin
(11,092 posts)and statistical anomalies!
Crickets. Where's all the tin foil now guys?
klook
(12,134 posts)The process was as described here. I used a touchscreen to vote, and then I had an opportunity to review the printout, and I watched as it was scanned and then retained with other ballot printouts by a poll worker.
Of course, there is a certain amount of trust required after that point, but compared to the old no-paper-trail Diebold machines we used to use, it seemed much more secure. I do think it's pretty funny that Georgia Republicans are screaming foul now, after living with the highly problematic Diebold machines for years with no complaints -- as long as their candidates were winning.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)After falling for the truck drivin', gun totin' good 'ol boy routine 2 yrs ago instead of Casey Cagle.
PerceptionManagement
(461 posts)Chumps.
uncle ray
(3,153 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)a talented 10 yo could write that program.
Politicub
(12,163 posts)and change a machines software.
I keep seeing this 10 year old jazz, but no one explains how.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)nobody in IT does that. nobody.
and some of us have smelled a rat since 2004. HAVA was bullshit.
you should look harder. lots of ppl have explained it.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)dominion has total control over that system. unprecedented total control.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)There's a run-off election. Not everyone votes a straight party ticket. People make choices. That's easy enough to explain. Occam's Razor.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)That consists of taking the totals from the scanner/tabulator. let's say Biden x. and trump y
They then take the cards out of the scanner/tabulator storage compartment.
They look at the card and see who they voted for .
In the end, Biden will have ~x and Trump will have ~y. There will be some variances as there are humans involved.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)in '06 in a red county.
almost every precinct had an error or 2. nobody believed the precincts were rly chosen at random.
one had more votes than registered voters. that one wasnt chosen.
they said- it's ok, it wouldnt change the outcome. but it should have been enough to expand the audit. it wasnt.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)they do. But then at the same time who is to say that the human reading the card did not put it in the correct bucket.
LiberalFighter
(50,501 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)If the machines were rigged the counts wouldnt have matched. They did; except for the few single digit human errors.
So no, it didnt happen.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)i just said it wouldnt be hard to do.
and w/o paper ballots and FULL audits, not a 10% count that is typical, it isnt even hard.
Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)LOCK.HIM.UP
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)I was trying to figure out what the company had to do with yeast infections
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)quakerboy
(13,901 posts)I firmly believe that if we went to paper ballots, republicans would lose a lot more elections.
When the conservatives accuse their opponents of something, The odds are its because they just did that something themselves.
IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)They are not gonna listen to you tell them the truth. The cult have all drank the Kool-Aid and jumped aboard the crazy train. Choo Choo!!! All aboard!!! Next stop Mar-a-Lago Club!!! Choo Choo!!!
Bayard
(21,805 posts)He sounds exasperated (and funny!)
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)Have they published source code?