I voted yesterday on new voting machines, and I liked them

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15. You like having a private corporation come between you & your vote?

A corporation, ES&S, originally financed by the wing-nut evangelical Ahmansons and owned and run by rethugs? Do you expect them to run fair, clean, transparent elections?

Don't drink the koolaid. Lots of people have spoken out about these diabolical devices, but the "mainstream" media has failed to report on this. Here are some links to visit so that you are not duped into thinking that these ballot marking devices are "good."

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Important info:

Ballot-marking devices (BMDs) are not secure election technology

Barcoded BMD Ballot Battle in GA as Legislative Session Nears End: 'BradCast' 3/27/2018
https://bradblog.com/?p=12525
SNIP Longtime election integrity expert MARILYN MARKS, whose nonpartisan Coalition for Good Governance is suing the Peach State to force them to do away with their unverifiable Director Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines, joins us to warn about the proposed new scheme to replace them with similarly unverifiable touch-screen Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) and why she sees that as "going from bad to worse."

"People today at least understand that their system is unverifiable, unauditable, and really a lot of guesswork," she tells me. "Unfortunately, this new system that they are so determined to find a way to put in, kind of has the look, from a distance, of a paper system. But it really is just as unverifiable."

Marks explains that the new legislation introduces computer-printed ballots with barcodes on them, which cannot be read by humans. Deceptively, the paper ballots produced by the new touch-screen systems also include a summary of the voters' votes in human-readable form. But, it is the unreadable and impossible to verify barcodes --- rather than the human-readable voter selections --- which are used by the system's computer optical-scanners to tally results. "What can be embedded in those bar codes may be very different from the human-readable list that is printed out," she says.

Even if the barcodes weren't printed on the paper ballots, Marks explains, the computer-marked ballots would still be unacceptable and unverifiable as reflecting any voter's intent after polls close on Election Night, as Jennifer Cohn recently detailed in a must-read article at The BRAD BLOG. Marks offers action items for preventing the passage of the bill, for those both in and out of the state of Georgia (as summarized here in this Twitter Moment.) SNIP

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Read column & listen to podcast here: https://bradblog.com/?p=13169

There is a lot more out there about Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) and/or election integrity.
3 sites to visit & explore:
coalitionforgoodgovernance.org
bradblog.com
fairfight.com