Vote counting optical scanners.

[Skwmom]

Most ballots are still counted by Optical Scanners, which have been proven to lose votes, overheat and mis-tally, and can be hacked and rigged intentionally.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27204-computerized-vote-rigging-is-still-the-unseen-threat-to-american-democracy-it-s-time-to-change-the-system

[Eric J in MN]

1. At least they're paper ballots which can be audited

...and used for a recount.

MN had a recount in 2008 (Senator Al Franken) and in 2010 (Governor Mark Dayton.)

[J_J_]

4. In my state if there is an audit, paper ballots are put through the same damn machines

And if there is a hand counted audit of paper ballots, they will change the hand count to match the machine as we have seen happen already.

We have seen the same tactics used over and over.

If it happened in the states where we caught them, chances are it is happening in the other states but they are getting away with it.

[Skwmom]

5. Yeah that really worked in IL where they made the sample hand count match the incorrect machine vote

count.

Secondly, only if control of the ballots is effective. Otherwise, it is easy to swap out ballots that only require you to fill in an oval.

[questionseverything]

7. thank you for posting these links,

i try to keep up but had missed this new info about "fractured voting"

http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-2/

the only solution is hand counted paper ballots at the precinct in full public view and a tight watch of the reporting website

[pmorlan1]

2. This is so Important

and yet it is rarely talked about until we are in the middle of an election.

[NurseJackie]

3. I prefer them to punch-cards and electronic touch-screen voting.

[brooklynite]

6. Still waiting for evidence of actual vote rigging...

...still waiting for the list of candidates, campaign managers or Party leaders who claim it happened.

[Mnpaul]

9. Here is one

election officials from both parties got busted in Ky.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/ky-election-officials-arr_b_177468.html

[Mnpaul]

8. It's not the readers

It's the memory card in the reader. Every memory card has its own processor and that it where the vote can be manipulated.