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In reply to the discussion: Will the 2016 Primaries Be Electronically Rigged? [View all]questionseverything
(11,826 posts)50. judge rawl said he lost because of electronic rigging
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7899
he took it to the sc dem board who did nothing
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Speaking to the oft-cited fallacy being forwarded in the media that both candidates were equally unknown entities, who each did little or no campaigning, Ludwig re-iterated what Rawl has been saying in his recent media appearances. "There is an inherent presumption that these were equivalent campaigns. We campaigned, the other guy just simply didn't."
Rawl has said he'd raised hundreds of thousands of dollars during the campaign, appeared at some 80 campaign events all across the state since March 1st, and had hundreds of campaign volunteers. By way of contrast, Greene didn't have a campaign website, had no volunteers, no campaign literature, and doesn't even own a computer or a cell phone.
I pointed Ludwig to a number of academic findings in regard to the state's Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems which he hadn't yet known of, and discussed my concerns about the sensitive memory cards used in those systems for both programming the ballot and recording votes.
As manipulation of the memory cards are one of the direct ways to potentially manipulate the machines, I've been very troubled by reports received by the campaign that some pollworkers were said to have been repeatedly accessing and swapping out memory cards throughout Election Day. Ludwig says that the cards have yet to be examined or quarantined. I strongly advised, as I have since first reporting this story, that someone get a court order for that immediately.
he took it to the sc dem board who did nothing
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Speaking to the oft-cited fallacy being forwarded in the media that both candidates were equally unknown entities, who each did little or no campaigning, Ludwig re-iterated what Rawl has been saying in his recent media appearances. "There is an inherent presumption that these were equivalent campaigns. We campaigned, the other guy just simply didn't."
Rawl has said he'd raised hundreds of thousands of dollars during the campaign, appeared at some 80 campaign events all across the state since March 1st, and had hundreds of campaign volunteers. By way of contrast, Greene didn't have a campaign website, had no volunteers, no campaign literature, and doesn't even own a computer or a cell phone.
I pointed Ludwig to a number of academic findings in regard to the state's Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems which he hadn't yet known of, and discussed my concerns about the sensitive memory cards used in those systems for both programming the ballot and recording votes.
As manipulation of the memory cards are one of the direct ways to potentially manipulate the machines, I've been very troubled by reports received by the campaign that some pollworkers were said to have been repeatedly accessing and swapping out memory cards throughout Election Day. Ludwig says that the cards have yet to be examined or quarantined. I strongly advised, as I have since first reporting this story, that someone get a court order for that immediately.
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We have new machines, we mark a paper ballot, take it over to be scanned, view the result
peacebird
Jan 2016
#3
And? this is unbelievable. You are already making excuses for your guy losing
lunamagica
Jan 2016
#12
Why would you believe that if Sanders wins "it problably wasn't rigged", but if Hillary wins
lunamagica
Jan 2016
#27
How about this?: " Sanders won in spite of being rigged." In order to do this, Sanders
Cal33
Jan 2016
#43
I do think someone should take a hard look at early votes and mailin votes and where they come from.
Sunlei
Jan 2016
#13
The question was about election fraud, not voter fraud. But you knew that, and
valerief
Jan 2016
#29
Every one of the 3,143 US counties could hire techs to monitor machines from voter input to
ancianita
Jan 2016
#24
I'm totally down with paper ballots. But the printing and shipping costs would be
ancianita
Jan 2016
#58
Not completely. Watching the entire shipping route to the point of state certification
ancianita
Jan 2016
#62
Hell, I've been bitching on the nets about vote rigging and $ in politics since 2008.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#66
Yes! I don't know what legal teams are on this. More evidence should get courts moving.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#68
I don't know about other states, but in MN caucuses there are no electronics involved.
Thor_MN
Jan 2016
#69
Don't Vote, Don't Vote, Don't Vote, .... This is voter suppression psychology at work.
L. Coyote
Jan 2016
#74