Democrat Calls for Investigation of Donald Trump's 'Vote Counting Computers' Remark

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117. Brunner report

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It is a 2007 study, but mostly still relevant, and a very thorough report. People can find it here: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/22486-document-05-jennifer-l-brunner-ohio-secretary

The ES&S process involving memory cards is described on P26, and is similar to all the other systems.

The report describes good safeguards throughout the process EXCEPT for the handling of that card. In all cases, the cards are manually removed from the tabulation machine and delivered to a central location. In absence of a recount, I believe the SOP is to simply use the memory cards and never refer back to the tabulation machines or the paper ballots themselves -- and there were NO RECOUNTS.

There is an opportunity to change the contents of the memory card from the time they are removed from the tabulation machines to the time they are actually processed at election HQ for the county. That requires corrupt officials, but there is absolutely no doubt there are many corrupt people in the election systems. We saw what Tina Peters did. We saw all the fake electors. It is certainly not a stretch to imagine scenarios where insiders could manipulate the memory cards before they are processed at the county level. The only real safeguard is that such fraud could easily be detected by recounting the ballots. But if there are no recounts, such tampering could go undetected.

And remember, elections are political. The objective isn't to win the election, but to win the count, and more specifically, to win the PR battle in the first few days after the voting ends. The Trump people wouldn't necessarily have been concerned about recounts because they figured they could bully their way through that and have Trump practically coronated within the first 24 hours, which is exactly what happened.

We have Democratic Governors in many of the swing states. There really should be a forensic audit to see if any of these cards were manipulated, as Trump seems to imply with his public statements.