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bearsfootball516

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5. Love the new machines they have in Elkhart County Indiana.

Reply to HelpImSurrounded (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2020, 01:45 PM

Oct 2020

The poll worker looks you up by name and prints off your ballot, which has a unique bar code in the corner. You insert that into the voting machine and it pulls up all of the races. You select your choices on the touch screen, then when you're done, it spits your ballot back out with all of your choices marked. Then you walk it over to the counting machine, insert it, and it gives you a "Your vote has been cast!" message, and the ballot drops into a lockbox that is saved in case of a manual recount.

Best part, no wifi connections whatsoever, so there's no ability for them to be hacked.

The scanners work really well too. There was a race last fall that the Republican ended up winning by like, 3 votes (GRRRR). They did a manual recount...and the vote count was identical to the tally the machines had.

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OUR NEW MACHINES USE PAPER!!!! [View all] HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 OP

can you verify your vote? Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #1

Yes- verifiable! HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #2

The new ones we have have all that. LiberalArkie Oct 2020 #3

a hackable system. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #9

From the actual human interface (what people would call voting machine) there is only LiberalArkie Oct 2020 #17

The question becomes - If a recount id ordered, are the cards just inserted back into the reader LiberalArkie Oct 2020 #4

No optical scan? Why? targetpractice Oct 2020 #7

I'm tellin' ya what the most solid experts on election say. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #8

Gotcha... I think most experts would also say... targetpractice Oct 2020 #11

Love the new machines they have in Elkhart County Indiana. bearsfootball516 Oct 2020 #5

How does your vote get to the central tabulation? Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #10

Like, how do they all get tabulated at the end of the night? bearsfootball516 Oct 2020 #12

election experts are asking that volunteers take a photo at the end of the night... Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #15

And while that chip is in transit, it can be hacked. HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #18

How exactly would that chip be hacked? bearsfootball516 Oct 2020 #20

Hacking predates the internet and wifi HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #21

We actually have safeguards around that. bearsfootball516 Oct 2020 #22

thanks for this info Celerity Oct 2020 #23

Of course you do HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #25

The code for the ballot design is uploaded with memory sticks which can contain executable code. diva77 Oct 2020 #14

My NoVa county has had them for awhile. No detachable id part though. empedocles Oct 2020 #6

They're probably Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) which are devious machines diva77 Oct 2020 #13

yes, Jenny Cohn is the expert on election security matters. Grasswire2 Oct 2020 #16

True about the false sense of security... HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #19

The best you can do with this scenario is to check your ballot carefully after the printout diva77 Oct 2020 #30

Will do! HelpImSurrounded Oct 2020 #31

check out this thread with link to current lawsuit regarding BMDs diva77 Oct 2020 #32

working link Celerity Oct 2020 #24

Thanks, Celerity! I fixed it. diva77 Oct 2020 #28

yw Celerity Oct 2020 #29

My voting machine printed out a paper copy with Ilsa Oct 2020 #26

We had machines in 2016.. Rice4VP Oct 2020 #27