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Stevepol

(4,234 posts)
5. Not just easier but also much more sophisticated.
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 09:37 PM
Aug 2016

Now they can program the machines to count every vote in Column A as 1.01 votes and every vote in Column B as .99 votes or any other variation of this and the result can be finely calibrated to change the results of a close election so it doesn't look fishy. And I'm sure they have all kinds of very easy methods of hacking using the "memory cards," e.g., or any other flash drive or whatnot that can instantaneously change results and then destroy any evidence of its having happened. I'm sure ES&S has a wide variety of methods for changing the results.

Of course, in KS or FL or any of many other states, it makes no difference how ridiculous the results or what the disparity is between the the exit polls (unadjusted) and the supposed actual result. There's no result that would cause anybody to do anything to verify the vote like, for example, count the actual paper to see if the results are accurate.

It's the world of "faith-based" democracy and welcome to it. It's apparently the best we can do in the US at the moment.

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