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diva77

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6. One thing we ABSOLUTELY must do: demand paper ballots, hand counted at precincts
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:27 AM
Feb 2017

The acceleration of democratic losses in elections has coincided with the installation of computerized voting machines, optical scanners, and computerized tabulators.

It is hard to get people to do anything about this mode of election fraud because you can't see it while it's happening, you can't smell it, taste it, hear it. But it's there. And you can't do any thing about it afterwards because trying to contest elections and ask for recounts, one encounters a brick wall. We have to put a stop to use of these machines BEFORE elections.

This problem along with purging of voters from computerized voting rolls outsourced to companies like Crosscheck, gerrymandering, false polls, scarcity of voting machines at the polls, broken down voting machines at the polls, early voting skewing results, lack of chain of custody in vote by mail, unlimited funding of republican opponents on every level of government; media propaganda -- has gotten us to where we are now...

We have to demand hand-counted paper ballots at the precinct level!!!

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Right on! Kath2 Feb 2017 #1
agreed! yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #2
Right on, sister! Kath2 Feb 2017 #3
Hear, hear...as good a description as to where we are as any I've read... First Speaker Feb 2017 #4
Thank you yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #5
One thing we ABSOLUTELY must do: demand paper ballots, hand counted at precincts diva77 Feb 2017 #6
Yes. yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #7
The thing is, there's more of us than there are of them. Initech Feb 2017 #8
agreed.. yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #9
DRUMPF ALL REPUBLIKLANS! pressbox69 Feb 2017 #10
I look forward to that day yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #11
So do I! Kath2 Feb 2017 #15
Hitler was focused, clever and driven by politics. He didn't care about money. Kablooie Feb 2017 #12
yes.. yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #13
Hear, hear! smirkymonkey Feb 2017 #14
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