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(12,194 posts) Tue Oct 17, 2017, 07:46 PM Oct 2017

no voting machines were ever checked [View all]

... Desi Doyen said on 10/17/2017 @ 4:00 pm PT...

Hi, Karen --- It was actually DHS, specifically acting undersecretary Jeanette Manfra, who acknowledged that DHS had not conducted a forensic examination on any individual voting machine during her testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 21, 2017. The relevant segment starts at about 58 minutes:

https://www.c-span.org/v...ted-russia-2016-election

Here's Brad's article on it: http://bradblog.com/?p=12192. More on it can also be found here.

Desi

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no voting machines were ever checked [View all] questionseverything Oct 2017 OP

from the bradblog article questionseverything Oct 2017 #1

And to think this info has been Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #2

Are you speaking of these guys? bathroommonkey76 Oct 2017 #4

what we know for sure is it is possible questionseverything Oct 2017 #8

The polls weren't wrong mythology Oct 2017 #13

from ur link questionseverything Oct 2017 #15

that's why it's so absurd when people declare that "the vote counts were not altered," when the real TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #3

Have any blue states taken this up in the state legislatures? bathroommonkey76 Oct 2017 #5

sadly u are correct questionseverything Oct 2017 #9

So your theory relies on the hackers matching Wisconsin mythology Oct 2017 #14

all i want is transparity in vote counting questionseverything Oct 2017 #16

I worked the polls in Wisconsin forthemiddle Oct 2017 #24

ty for your service, what county? questionseverything Oct 2017 #25

I would rather not say that because forthemiddle Oct 2017 #26

the prosser/kloppenberg recount had a terrible chain of custody questionseverything Oct 2017 #27

look at post 99 in this op questionseverything Oct 2017 #17

it's not that tricky if you concentrate the hacking in precincts with no paper trail, or with heavy TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #31

The problem I have with hearing this now is that just after the election when the people who politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2017 #6

remember al frankens recount? questionseverything Oct 2017 #7

How do we know the primaries aren't hacked? elehhhhna Oct 2017 #10

we don't really know because no one can "see" inside the software questionseverything Oct 2017 #11

unfortunately, politicians follow, not lead. it is up to us to push this, but you have plenty of TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #32

Trump will win 2020 with 97% of the popular vote. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #12

small changes are happening questionseverything Oct 2017 #18

My county votes on paper ballots that are fed into a tabulator. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #19

i agree the electronic tabulaters are a problem questionseverything Oct 2017 #21

this. nt TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #33

I also think bluestarone Oct 2017 #20

if we are gonna verify the machines thru hand counts why pay for the machines at all questionseverything Oct 2017 #22

This: if we are gonna verify the machines thru hand counts why pay for the machines at all CrispyQ Oct 2017 #23

then bluestarone Oct 2017 #30

if you mean prove it to get trump out of office questionseverything Oct 2017 #34

The lack of concern about the security of our nation's voting machines Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2017 #28

we need to count our own votes questionseverything Oct 2017 #29