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In reply to the discussion: Did Anonymous really Save-the-Vote in Ohio? .... REALLY??? [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)We plug them into the wall and everything is done independent of the elections board within the machine itself. There is no 4G internet transmitter in the machines linking them electronically to Karl Rove's secret underground computer lab, and because of the paper backup it wouldn't matter if they did.
At the end of the day, the machine and the certified paper rolls are returned to the BOE for uploading. The machine count must match the tally on the paper rolls that specific machine produced. The 1st check is done at the precinct by us before we return the machines, and signed by all four precinct workers verifying accuracy to the last vote. If the numbers don't match up, we have to go through the votes one by one if necessary, until we find the discrepancy. If we can't, the event is logged in our precinct book and the county board takes up the problem (I've never seen that happen).
Once again, you must keep in mind that the machine and the paper trail both keep track of how many Romney votes were cast and how many for Obama. They have to match exactly before we'll sign off on it (two dems and two repubs).
If anyone has reason to believe the vote was electronically hacked, they can request an audit against the extremely well documented paper that each machine produced. (Remember now, this report was printed right in front of the voter in real time.) The final documentation process, as I stressed, is done by equal numbers from each party and kept under lock & key for years in storage at the county BOE. (I guess the Libertarian and Communist parties are on their own. LOL)
If my post is "insolvent", please point out where this mysterious hole in the Diebold system exists. You're using stale conspiracy theories from 2004 when Bob Taft and Ken Blackwell were in charge of counting our votes. They left in 2005 when democratic governor Ted Strickland overhauled the entire electronic voting procedure. (Remember how the election went for Ohio in 2008?)
Since 2011 we now have Kasich and Husted in charge of elections, but they concentrated primarily on suppression instead of changing the actual procedure at great expense.