I wonder if this isn't the real reason they are so adamant that they really ‘won’ the election - after all, they had all those extra votes already in the machines.
How ludicrous - if they are worried about security - have a guard and a camera stay inside the building with the machines.
Why do we let them get away with this, year after year???
and somebody better be checking into out military votes too - tens of thousands are thrown out each election. In PA alone, last time, Fast Eddie manipulated it so that the military couldn't get their absentee votes in in time to count. Is anyone watching out for our Troops votes - the ones who fight and die for our right to vote????
The voter then takes their ballot behind the curtain, dots in their choices and then brings the filled-in ballot back and sticks it into the optical scan machine...or one of the machines depending the size of the polling place.
No electronic computer machine with ether-votes only on hard drives. No old lever type mechanical machines. No chads or poking holes in cards...and on and on.
The optical scan machine could even have a readout to satisify the voter and polsters that the scanned vote was counted.
I've discussed with several friends about a 'spoiled' or a mistake made on a ballot. The solution was to bring the spoiled ballot to the polster to shred in everyone's preseence and then given another new ballot.
We even discussed ballots having a 'stub' on the card with a corresponding serial number that would be given to the voter as a sort of receipt. Only the voter would know their ballot's number. Their ballot could later be checked by the voter against a printed roster that their vote actually counted and how it was tabulated. Just like checking one's lottery ticket.
I know that even though wehad these good ideas, good ideas are never adopted in elections where the outcome is intended to be predetermined.