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Sobering article on voting machines
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RE: Sobering article on voting machines
Just saw a former Nevada voting official on Shannon Breems show. He said some interesting things about Nevada's mail in ballots signature validation system. First, by law, signatures are supposed to be done by humans and it wasn't. Second, the machine layer of the signature validation system has been altered. Apparently, the similarity discrimination software level has been "turned down" to just 40% of its maximum---which ends up meaning the signature doesnt have to be nearly as close a match to pass. Additionally, the software is designed to work with signatures reproduced at a at least 200dpi and the current scanning resolution of the verification file signatures is well below that level.
Basically he said of the 600K Nevada mail in ballots, only 200K were verified--and they were only verified by machine. None were seen by actual humans (as required by law). Worse yet---the remaining 400K ballots have not had any verification what so ever. If true---the "safeguards" that we have told are so incredibly secure are not very secure at all--and they know it.
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2020 12:29 PM by Attackcoog.)
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RE: Sobering article on voting machines
Dominion was not implemented statewide, it was used in Mecklenburg County, but not Wake County. In Wake County they used same voting system as 2016 Ballots are printed as Scantron sheets just color in the circle next to candidate of choice and the machine reads it. To me that's very transparent and hard to manipulate. In Mecklenburg County voting used a touchscreen voters were given a blank piece of paper, that looked like an old school punch card only twice as long, to insert in the voting station. You made your selections on the touchscreen, reviewed them then printed the ballot. You could see your printed ballot, the first third of the ballot was all barcodes the computer reads to tally results. Below the barcodes was the list of candidates chosen and the associated office. My issue with this, no way to tell if the barcodes really match the candidates. It would take an electronic ballot by ballot review to verify that.
To me the Dominion system could easily be manipulated and the voter would never know.
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RE: Sobering article on voting machines
In Ohio I had, for the first time, what you described in the latter, before we had your first description. You didn’t have to print your ballot out, but I did because I’m not trusting. The first thing I thought was - man, it would be easy to manipulate those barcodes.
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