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In reply to the discussion: Oh, that Russia rigged the election thing? It's EVEN WORSE than you thought [View all]usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)... the national move to electronic voting was pushed to make election fraud easier and hidden from the voters.
I have always felt and said that votes we being flipped in the tabulators. And that it would likely be in select regions and it would occur within the margin of error.
The ways that votes have been manipulated are numerous. from denying some voters to vote, by moving voting location, by limiting the number of working machines in a polling place, by suppressing voter through voter ID requirements, by gerrymandering district AND by altering voting matching software in the guise of necessary "patches and upgrades".
Most polling places are manned by senior citizen volunteers. Few if any are computer savvy. Most are computer illiterate. They trust that the system is fair. They never question results.
The poll worker's issue say three hundred ballots. At the end of the day, they check the tabulators (ballot scanners) to see how many ballots were run through the scanner. Three hundred issued. Three hundred scanned. Everything is accurate. They never consider that the votes on each ballot could be inaccurate as long as 300 = 300. YET a software routine (in the patch) could have purposely flipped 10,20,30 votes (within the margin of error) from one candidate to the opponent. 300 ballots would still equal 300 counted ballots.
Then the news media in their desire to be first with the results They report the raw vote totals and often call the winner. This is all before the ballots have been certified. Once the winner has been announced anyone questioning the results are wrong is called a sore loser and then often faces a legal battle to get a recount. A hand recount. An expensive hand recount.
One final part of hiding stolen election. Historically exit polling was always seen as a good indicator of the accuracy of the announced winner. On the night of the BUSH - GORE election The Drudge Report issued a headline in big red bold letters reading DON'T TRUST THE EXIT POLLING.
That was the start of demonizing exit polling. That night at approximately 9:30 to 10:00 EST with the polls in Florida closed and the Drudge headline banner. I turn to my wife and said they are going to steal this election. Little did I guess it was the opening salvo of the GOP stealing our Democracy. Step by step. Weakening safeguards one by one and here we are today. In my mind, a straight line from the 2000 SCOTUS stolen election to the 2016 "Russian assisted" election results. With a stolen SCOTUS seat, to swing the court to a conservative court, in the process. IMHO all part of the GOP plan.
VOTES ARE BEING STOLEN (manipulated) AND ELECTIONS ARE BEING STOLEN