Democrats Might Have Won the Last Big Election of 2013 With a Newly Discovered Voting Machine

[freedom fighter jh]

18. Paper ballots PLUS a law that allows "manual" recounting

I live in Fairfax County. At my precinct, voters are offered a choice between electronic and paper ballots. Most choose electronic, even when the lines are shorter for paper. One friend told me she does that "so no one will try to mess with it." So maybe the first thing we need is some education.

The paper ballots are counted by an optical scanner -- a computer, which can be programmed and misprogrammed. I understand (vaguely -- don't remember where I heard this) that not only here but most places where paper ballots and op scan are used, a non-machine recount IS NOT ALLOWED.

I did choose to vote (for Herring) on a paper ballot. But even with a paper ballot, there's little assurance of anything when a non-verifiable computer is part of the process.

i'm not sure I have this right, don't have time just now to research it.