I don’t know about stealing elections, but I do know who is stealing election FUNDING…the voting machine companies…
Just voted, and this is now the third system we’ve had in the last three elections.
The 1st was the old mechanical system, which I can see should be replaced. Machines wear out, and it did seem less secure (though I don’t truly know how any of these work…just my impressions as a voter.) Checked in from paper rolls…they’ve been using this system for the 25 years we’ve lived here. Retired it after 2018 I think.
The second was a goofy system where we filled out paper in specially designed portable cubbies, then used a specially designed folder to hold the paper in until we fed it into the specially designed machine…seemed cumbersome, but sure did have a lot of things for the election machine company to sell us…cubbies, folders, machines…
Today was the tour de force! You check in on specially designed tablets, which encoded your info onto an RFID card via a machine, and printed a recipt you signed.
Over to a new and specially designed cubby, where you put the RFID card in and voted on the screen. This resulted in a printed ballot from a specialized machine.
Then, over to the actual voting machine, in with the ballot, and your vote was cast.
So:
Tablets
Receipt printer
Receipt paper
RIDF card
RIDF imprinter
Voting cubby
Voting machine
Ballot printer
Ballot paper
Ballot counting machine.
They should have added the confidentiality folders…
It’s a long and tedious process. All the volunteers are on the older side and don’t understand tablets, the printers, or the system in general. It was a real mess.
But whomever sold them this system to replace the brand new system last election is making a mint I’m sure.
/end rant