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If you voted using an absentee ballot in Scott County, MN. did your vote count as you cast it?
When we vote on at the polling places on election day, there are two people present to avoid vote tampering. There is one person from each political party, called witness. Their job is to provide a check and balance. If you vote on election day, they each supervise the voting for irregularities, so there is very little chance of your vote being tampered with before it is entered and counted into the Minnesota election system. This is not the case if you vote using an absentee ballot. As a duly authorized “Pole Challenger”. Scott County election officials just refused my request to watch the organization and counting of ballots in the absentee ballot process. This process was done in a closed room without the supervision of a Democratic and Republican observers. This was completed by two employees of the county. Although they work together, there is no check and balance. If they both decide to change your vote, they could easily substitute a fake ballot for the one that you put in, or make other changes if you didn't mark a box, to their preference. There's no way that these could be caught because there was no check and balance on their preparation. These employees don’t have to declare themselves from either parties and could easily be involved in ballot tampering without our knowledge. By not allowing a Witness or another Election Judge from both parties into the room during this process, they are effectively negating the checks and balance system designed into our election process. Since a greater number of absentee ballots are cast every year, this process and the errors, modifications or tampering is going to be easier to do every year going forward. As an example, Al Franken found 300 votes weeks after the election, during a recount. In all likelihood, they were added in via the absentee ballot process. Steve Simon, our Secretary of State, who is highly biased for Democratic voters has constantly reworked all the rules and administrative voting procedures, making it more unlikely to catch fraudulent ballots and activity. Steve Simon uses the term “Freedom to vote” but it should be called “Freedom to Tamper with your Vote”. This agenda is allowing fraud to seep into our election process! Are your going to allow the nullification of your constitutional right to vote because of democratic administrative processes.