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In reply to the discussion: Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it [View all]Atman
(31,464 posts)If the algorithm keeps the vote outside of the range allowed for a recount, why would anyone demand a recount?
I need to bookmark everything I read on the web. There was an article, posted here on DU also, about exactly how such an algorithm works. VERY simply programming. I know this since my son is a software architect. Exactly the type of person these guys would go to to write this kind of code. Except he's a Democrat. I asked him about this, and I got one of those "Dad, you're such a dork!" looks. He thought this was so elementary as to be barely worth discussion. It is incredibly easy to write code that will flip votes in transit, then erase itself when done.
So, if the software works correctly, the votes are flipped and the "wrong" guy wins. Who will call for a recount? If it's outside of the margin for a recount, what good is a receipt? Nothing to recount.
That was the point of Husted's attempted scam...don't flip the votes at the machine-level, that is too obvious. But go public and tell people you're just enabling them to "see the results in real time." Americans are stupid for this kind of smoke and mirrors. So while you're seeing NUMBERS in real time, those numbers don't actually have to have anything to do with the information going through the internet to the secret tabulating software. If there is no challenge, a paper receipt is meaningless.