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Warpy

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4. Beats the hell out of the strategy so far

Reply to MichMan (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:47 PM

Jul 2017

The Democratic Party has challenged none of the elections using these easily hacked machines, not even when the hacking was so clumsily done as to be obvious. They still haven't.

Please reread the article and realize this is being done by a watchdog group, not the DNC. This has to be done. The longer these machines are in service and being hacked, the less trustworthy the results are, destroying faith in the whole democratic system.

My own state acted quickly after the clumsy 2004 election results made it obvious the machines had been hacked and were not trustworthy. In 2005, we got 100% paper ballots.

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Georgia congressional election challenged [View all] leftieNanner Jul 2017 OP

I think all elections in which those easily hacked machines are used Warpy Jul 2017 #1

I hope so too. leftieNanner Jul 2017 #2

Mail-in voting might be the way to go nationwide blue-wave Jul 2017 #9

The election in question had mail-in ballots, month of early voting and a judge even gave us an Hoyt Jul 2017 #13

Mail in voting is more susceptible to fraud than electronic Lee-Lee Jul 2017 #15

Oregon has it worked out leftieNanner Jul 2017 #17

What's to stop some USPS employee from discarding ballots from minority neighborhoods? Lee-Lee Jul 2017 #19

The USPS leftieNanner Jul 2017 #18

The USPS is many things- secure is not one of them Lee-Lee Jul 2017 #20

I disagree with that strategy MichMan Jul 2017 #3

Beats the hell out of the strategy so far Warpy Jul 2017 #4

Never said none should ever be challenged MichMan Jul 2017 #6

Except there is no evidence that any votes have ever been hacked mythology Jul 2017 #11

Thats very optomistic quakerboy Jul 2017 #7

Agreed - contest them all even if you win Valhallakey Jul 2017 #10

All you have to do is RandomAccess Jul 2017 #5

LInks to articles iluvtennis Jul 2017 #8

In this case, waste of time and makes us look like whining poor losers. GOPers got out vote in red Hoyt Jul 2017 #12

Are they citing specific claims of how it was hacked or proof votes were changed Lee-Lee Jul 2017 #14

Unfortunately it looks like a theory with no evidence, with a side of sour grapes Amishman Jul 2017 #16