The reality about "vote flipping" machines in NC and elsewhere

[Journeyman]

5. Well said. . .

I remember your work in the early 2000s, your collaboration with Bev Harris, and the tremendous effort expended to get Diebold out of our democracy.

I agree: The work that can be done to GOTV will have far more of an impact than the usual hysterics over machines flipping votes. Better to caution people to be on the lookout, report it when it occurs, and see what can be done to change the system in the future. But in the one article I read this weekend, people were incensed that 14 ballots may have been compromised (yet the article specifically stated that 7 people had corrected it at the polls, and one suspect machine had been pulled from use). Every ballot should be protected, of course, but as you say, this issue is minuscule compared to voter suppression, should be watched for by each individual voter (signs should be posted warning people to be on the lookout), and that hyper-attention to it may actually work against the entire process by discouraging voters of all stripe.

Thanks for your comment. And thanks, too, for your earlier efforts to ensure the integrity of the voting booth.