MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR PAPER PRINTOUT OF YOUR VOTES and CHECK IT. They're switching votes.
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What are you talking about?
I've never seen a voting machine produce a receipt for an individual voter.
maybe that's possible for people that vote via touch-screen or button-pushing devices?
Good point. I have seen ballot marking devices, but only for people who have a disability that would make it difficult to use pen & paper.
Those ballots still get fed into the ballot scanner though.
I second that. I have even requested validation that my vote was correctly read into the machine, some indication after scanning through, that the candidates selected on paper, were read correctly, and that has never been available.
Part of a fair election is that no one can know for sure how you voted. If voters can be provided with proof of how they voted, that could open up a scheme where candidates can pay people to vote a certain way. "Show me your receipt that you voted for me, and I'll give you $X" Right now the best they can do is register people and drive them to the polls, but the pollbooth is still private and people can vote however they want there.
Granted, another part of a fair election is that the vote counters (whether they be human or machine) provide accurate counts. This is likely broken, which is why people want receipts. If this part were not broken, the receipts wouldn't matter.
I agree with you premise about receipt. I never used the word Receipt, meaning something like a printout that I could take with me. I only indicated that I was looking for some form of validation like a screen image of the votes read into the machine..
In IL we've had two machines in the past decade. The first one you see a paper printed behind glass and you get asked to review it and then hit accept or reject. A couple years ago they changed to machines that print out a paper sheet that you review then you take it over to a scanner and feed it in. Neither one makes me feel any better as we know the vote flipping really happens long after that final scanning step (which makes getting these paper receipts pointless.)
I'm in ILannoy... I've never seen this system.
It has always been a paper ballot, marked with a Sharpie.
That ballot is fed into a machine that reads & reports the vote.
The paper ballot is maintained per voting laws, regs & policies (no matter how bad they may be.)
Ok I just got back from voting here in Tennessee. From what I’ve found is our new voting machines do print a receipt. It’s not a receipt that you can keep, it’s printed out right beside the matching in a sealed, clear box. I took a picture of mine, it’s allowed. So you look at that receipt printed and you over look your casted votes. If it’s correct, you then press the “cast vote” button and the receipt goes into a sealed metal, big luggage style box. Actually the whole voting thing is inside this luggage looking thing. I actually was impressed at this new system. But, the system IS plugged into the internet, I asked specifically this. And it is. So how the receipts get tallied I have no idea. They went through the process and those workers have zero to do with those pieces of paper once they go into the box. So….if the steal is possible at that point then…..oh and also, this video posted is of course in Shelby county. I asked about this and they knew for a fact that Shelby county had not updated their voting machine. I have no doubt that that is by design. But, the video describes that the Dems are losing votes…? Maybe it’s because so many of the black population of Memphis is voting Trump, and they think there is something wrong with the machines? Or an excuse to say that, so those won’t be counted?
Nor I.