Posted on 07/28/2022 1:49:00 PM PDT by cotton1706
Let me preface this article by telling all of my readers: You can use any blue or black ballpoint pen you bring to the voting booth or poll. Do not let anyone there force you or pressure you into using their pen against your wishes.
On Tuesday, The Gateway Pundit reported that SharpieGate 2.0 was perhaps in the making when Maricopa Co Recorder Stephen Richer about faced on his July 7th tweet saying “use any black or blue pen”. He tweeted on July 26th that “we will give ALL voters a special pen at voting locations. PLEASE PLEASE use this pen.” He then states that other pens don’t dry quick enough and can “gunk” the tabulators, requiring cleaning.
The use of all caps to emphasize “please please” and “all” in his tweet about using the new “special pen” has overtones of desperation. But last night, Richer took his desperation a step further, accusing a “friend” of trying to disrupt the primary and then commanding you to “just use the darn pen given to you on election”.
If the above dialogue actually took place, Richer is accusing a “friend” of trying to disrupt a primary because they are telling folks to bring their own pen. Think about that. I remind you that this is the same county that archived files, removed them off the system, and then failed to hand them over in a subpoena requesting all election records. It’s the same county that brought in a private contractor to “audit” their machines before Cyber Ninjas did. That contractor was also the same company that reportedly “certified” the machines prior to the election. This is just a slight conflict of interest.
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Special pen? Erasable?
Disappearing ink???
Special pen to ensure the integrity of the optical scanners.
Have you ever used a Bic ball point pen after it sat in your back pocket all day? When you use it, it sometimes oozes a big glob of ink that is very slow to dry. If you rub your hand into it while writing, you leave a big smear and a blue blotch on your hand.
Now imagine a ballot with that blob of wet ink going throgh an optical scanner, and a smear of ink fouls up the scanner sensors?
Why would we want to use an icky germ-laden pen that probably harbors Covid-22 and MonkeyPox-23 combined?
Just bring your own pen. Stay Safe!
AZ law requires blue ball point pen on ballots.
Both the recorder and sec of state are pushing felt tip pens, even on their websites.
If they don’t like the law, they can lobby against it. But they must follow it for now.
We use sharpies here but the ballots are thick, nearly card stock.
There were cases where election officials purposely handed out felt-tipped pens, knowing they would bleed through, causing large numbers of ballots to be rejected by the scanner and thus require “adjudication”.
“Adjudication” is a process whereby a human inspects questionable ballots, and makes a subjective judgment as to how the voter intended to vote.
Obviously, the adjudication process is a perfect opportunity for fraud.
In my precinct in Michigan, we've used felt-tipped pens on OCR ballots since we dropped the punch cards after the 2000 "hanging Chads" fiasco.
Other than running afoul of Arizona law, there's nothing wrong with using their felt pens.
ridesthemiles wrote: "Disappearing ink???"
Bingo!
I used these when I was flying to mark the routes on the charts. Afterward, I used the erase side to make the lines disappear. And, disappear they did.
You just need to make one pass over the visible ink and it disappears like it was never there. Just like the bottom photo shows.
Then bring your own pens and test them it before you enter the ballot box and you mark your ballot. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
I always use my pen. Monkeypox etc. Scans and counts my ballot just fine.
Absolutely there is.
I think “Sharpiegate” had some substance to it; something fishy was going on there. And I don’t trust any of these election officials after 2020, but this concern about smearing ink sounds reasonable to me. Gel pens, in particular, use ink that takes a while to dry and will smear in the meantime.
I would just make sure that Maricopa County is providing exactly the same pens to everyone, rather than what they pulled in 2020.
What’s. Crock. Wet ink is not going to “gunk up” an optical scanner
Use any pen if you like…
Believe me the pens we give you at the polls in PA are just cheap ball point pens you can buy from any office supply store. There is nothing “special” about them…
“AZ law requires blue ball point pen on ballots.”
No. It does not. Black or blue for early voting, black is used for the day of the election. Ball points are NOT required.
AZ law does not require blue ball point pens.
There is an AZ senate bill that seeks to change the marking rules so that voters can use any pen type they want to while banning sharpies. It’s not law, though.
“AZ law requires blue ball point pen on ballots.”
Which statute?
https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=16
This pen, and bleed-through issue, was brought up by more than a few voters in AZ during the 2020 election.
Why, exactly, would one design a two-sided ballot?
Sounds like a fraud maneuver.
Most likely this.
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