This is what I don't understand. I just spent two days researching South Carolina elections.

[EFerrari]

The ES&S iVotronic system has no paper ballot. Not a receipt, not spit. Nothing you can hold in your hand. Nada.

The machines they use STATEWIDE are unstable. Vulnerable to a virus and they've been found to not register your choice. The state can't even keep up their own computers, let alone secure the computers used in statewide elections.

The South Carolina constitution calls for public vote counting. You can't count what you can't see, can you?

You also can't recount what you never saw, can you?

The state provides one machine for every 250 voters. Lines form around the block, people get discouraged and go home. Who can blame these voters? This is a form of vote suppression. An effective one.

In addition to this obvious cr@P!, if you are a first-time voter, you must have ID. That sounds very reasonable, doesn't it? Unless you don't know it until you get to your polling place and have waited in line for hours and can't wait any more.

If you hand in your provisional ballot in the wrong place (no matter if it is accepted by a poll worker) it will not be counted. You have to check the internet to learn the status and if your case is accepted, you have to go to a hearing to assert your case. Vote suppression on skates, anyone?

Reputable election protection outfits like VoteTrustUSA have also reported "challengers" at the polls who prey upon black voters and students in particular.

South Carolina knew exactly what it was doing when it went to this horrible voting equipment. People with election tech cred handed in solid objections.

South Carolina has the biggest block of black Democratic voters in the country.

South Carolina flew the confederate flag at the state house until 2000. They were the last state to recognize MLK Day as a holiday for their state employees.

Tell me this is an accident. Tell me they aren't stealing our elections on the backs of black voters. Then please tell me, what are you willing to do.

ETA: :nuke: