Y'know what? I suspect there WAS fraud in this election.

[yellowdogintexas]

55. regarding Item 3, it is my experience that the reverse is true

I have NEVER had an election even come close to more than 65% of registered voters in my precinct. It runs around 50%, although this year was better. State wide Texas vote can be as low as 40%

If the various state legislatures had allowed the vote by mail work to begin earlier we would have been done by Thursday. Our ballot board started verifications on October 15th; the ballots were scanned during the day on Nov 3. All counties with population in excess of 100,000 do this. The smaller ones start on the last day of early voting.

Regarding paper ballots: the newer equipment being offered generates a paper ballot that is then scanned. At the end of the day, tapes are run showing the total # of ballots scanned.
The check in record shows the number of folks who showed up. The tape total + any provisional or spoiled ballots should equal the number of checkins. We have 100% paper backup for every vote.

We run two copies of both sets of tapes - one is totals proving we started at 0 and ended with the total; one set goes to the elections office and one set goes home with the judge. The second tapes are the election summary showing results for each race. The judge takes home a copy.

The scanner and the check in equipment go to the Elections center with the ballots. NOTHING comes in or goes out on the internet. The touch screen for voting has no memory, when the ballot is printed, amnesia sets in until the next access code is entered.

Not every county has this equipment yet but all of our metropolitan counties do - we were required to upgrade our equipment to allow us to accept any voter at any location in the county on Election Day.

It is essentially not worth the trouble to attempt to mess with the vote here because one party is very dominant.