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Local Election Commissions Are Battleground for Those Concerned About Upcoming Election Fraud, Drive to Ban Dominion Machines
A NM law professor, former prosecutor, and election integrity activist says that voters who want to know what they can do now to prevent election fraud in November can “save the country by fixing their county.” David Clements, of Las Cruces, NM, is leading the charge to ban Dominion and other electronic vote-counting machines in many states, and switch to publicly hand-counted paper ballots.
Worldwide, countries which now employ systems of 100% hand-counted paper ballots include Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, and at least 53 other countries. One of the latest countries to revert to hand-counted paper ballots is the Netherlands.
And as controversy rages over the desirability of mail-in voting and whether it should be expanded or tightly restricted, none other than Jimmy Carter has warned that large numbers of mail-in ballots are a recipe for mischief:
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud” is the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.
According to Ballotpedia, in the US there are now counties which hand-count ballots in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. This list now includes counties in NM (Otero County) and Nevada (Nye and Esmeralda Counties. )
Perhaps the greatest irony surrounding the issue is the characterization of the issue as a “right-wing” cause, when one presidential election season ago it was considered relatively nonpartisan, and if anything tilted a little to the left. In a 2016 report, “An Electoral System in Crisis,” election integrity activists noted with concern that in the Illinois Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton showed an unusual trend as ballots were tabulated by precinct size, which may have indicated machine fraud.
The authors of “An Electoral System in Crisis” called for a full hand count “where paper ballots are available..” They wrote:
“It is hard to conceive of a legitimate transfer of power following an election that has been this flawed. We recommend that many of these elections be examined, and if found to be inaccurate, decertified.
Where paper ballots are available, it would be informative to count them by hand.”
Another non-partisan election integrity organization, AUDITElectionsUSA, noted that in Massachusetts, a key liberal state in the Democratic primary election schedule, Sanders polled 17% higher in hand-counted precincts than in machine counted ones. AUDITElectionsUSA then jumped into the fray recommending:
“What would be powerful … would be the selection of a few suspect precincts for full hand-count to compare with the Dominion numbers.”
Even if not all counties succeeded in converting to hand-counting ballots, counties which did would provide a check on machine counted ones, as great differences became obvious.
Now even CNN acknowledges “vulnerabilities” in machine vote-counting systems like Dominion, albiet with the cold comfort that, as far as we know, they have never been exploited. Nevertheless, reverting to hand-counting ballots is portrayed as the latest right-wing chew bone.
A June 2022 US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report concludes, according to CNN:
“Federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems, discovered during a controversial Georgia court case, which could in theory allow a malicious actor to tamper with the devices, according to a draft analysis reviewed by CNN.
The vulnerabilities have never been exploited in an election….”
CNN then cannot help but lob vitriol in the direction of “conspiracy theorists” who, in an interesting turn of words, seek to “weaponize” the truth about the machines in order to discourage their use:
“But because the subject is Dominion voting equipment, which has been the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim there was large-scale fraud in the 2020 election, federal and state and local officials are bracing for election deniers to try to weaponize news of the vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections.”
In a fell swoop election integrity activists such as those questioning results in Clinton vs Sanders become “conspiracy theorists” and “election deniers” in 2020, and truth, rather than set you free as the Bible promises, is something to be feared and “weaponized.” The difference seems to depend on whose ox is gored.
In 2016 another citizens’ group, ElectionJusticeUSA.org, issued a scathing report, Democracy Lost, which heavily suggested that Bernie Sanders did not get a fair shake in the 2016 Democratic primaries. The report’s first concluding recommendation was “Exclusive use of hand-counted paper ballots in all future US elections.”
In the 2006 HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, computer scientist Harry Hursti gave an early demonstration of how shockingly easy it is to hack into a vote tabulation machine and change the outcome of a race. The demonstration became known as the Hursti Hack.
The Hursti Hack (view at Rumble)
Finally, in one of the most startling revelations of the 2016 election season, a clever programmer discovered that vote-counting machines can count fractions of a vote, rather than only integers, a puzzling capability unless one wants to decide a margin of victory ahead of time, and then reverse engineer to the numbers of votes. He called his demonstration “Fraction Magic.”
Fraction Magic – Short Version
Hand-Count of Paper Ballots Now a Nationwide Push
Despite the media’s new portrayal of hand-counted paper ballots as a right-wing notion, citizens have been making headway following David Clement’s precept “Save the country by fixing your county.”
Clements urges people wondering what they can do to prevent election fraud this coming year to vote in person if possible, and to prevail on their county or city election commissioners to hand-count the ballots, which, despite protests that this would be akin to a return to the “horse-and-buggy,” is the method most advanced democracies use today. including Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands.
NM law school professor and former prosecutor David Clements recommended, in an interview this month, that people go before their county or municipal election commissions, and demand they satisfy constituents that elections are fair and accurate :
“You’re the constituent, the government is supposed to work for you, and so we’re seeing results so in Otero [County NM] we’ve voted to get rid of the machines to get rid of drop boxes to get to hand paper tabulation Jim Marchant done a similar thing in Nevada, in Nye County, Esmeralda county they voted to get rid of the machines. I think that’s the future, you save the country by fixing your county.” (remarks in video below starting at 4:00 minutes)
Professor David Clements at LinkedIn
David Clements on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprofsrecord
Professor David Clements Interview, pertinent remarks on elections at 4:00 minutes (view at Rumble)
Prof. David Clements addresses Gap County, PA election commission (view at Rumble)
https://coronanews123.wordpress.com...ng-states-only-proves-2020-coup-by-democrats/
Local Election Commissions Are Battleground for Those Concerned About Upcoming Election Fraud, Drive to Ban Dominion Machines
A NM law professor, former prosecutor, and election integrity activist says that voters who want to know what they can do now to prevent election fraud in November can “save the country by fixing their county.” David Clements, of Las Cruces, NM, is leading the charge to ban Dominion and other electronic vote-counting machines in many states, and switch to publicly hand-counted paper ballots.
Worldwide, countries which now employ systems of 100% hand-counted paper ballots include Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, and at least 53 other countries. One of the latest countries to revert to hand-counted paper ballots is the Netherlands.
And as controversy rages over the desirability of mail-in voting and whether it should be expanded or tightly restricted, none other than Jimmy Carter has warned that large numbers of mail-in ballots are a recipe for mischief:
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud” is the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.
According to Ballotpedia, in the US there are now counties which hand-count ballots in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. This list now includes counties in NM (Otero County) and Nevada (Nye and Esmeralda Counties. )
Perhaps the greatest irony surrounding the issue is the characterization of the issue as a “right-wing” cause, when one presidential election season ago it was considered relatively nonpartisan, and if anything tilted a little to the left. In a 2016 report, “An Electoral System in Crisis,” election integrity activists noted with concern that in the Illinois Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton showed an unusual trend as ballots were tabulated by precinct size, which may have indicated machine fraud.
The authors of “An Electoral System in Crisis” called for a full hand count “where paper ballots are available..” They wrote:
“It is hard to conceive of a legitimate transfer of power following an election that has been this flawed. We recommend that many of these elections be examined, and if found to be inaccurate, decertified.
Where paper ballots are available, it would be informative to count them by hand.”
Another non-partisan election integrity organization, AUDITElectionsUSA, noted that in Massachusetts, a key liberal state in the Democratic primary election schedule, Sanders polled 17% higher in hand-counted precincts than in machine counted ones. AUDITElectionsUSA then jumped into the fray recommending:
“What would be powerful … would be the selection of a few suspect precincts for full hand-count to compare with the Dominion numbers.”
Even if not all counties succeeded in converting to hand-counting ballots, counties which did would provide a check on machine counted ones, as great differences became obvious.
Now even CNN acknowledges “vulnerabilities” in machine vote-counting systems like Dominion, albiet with the cold comfort that, as far as we know, they have never been exploited. Nevertheless, reverting to hand-counting ballots is portrayed as the latest right-wing chew bone.
A June 2022 US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report concludes, according to CNN:
“Federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems, discovered during a controversial Georgia court case, which could in theory allow a malicious actor to tamper with the devices, according to a draft analysis reviewed by CNN.
The vulnerabilities have never been exploited in an election….”
CNN then cannot help but lob vitriol in the direction of “conspiracy theorists” who, in an interesting turn of words, seek to “weaponize” the truth about the machines in order to discourage their use:
“But because the subject is Dominion voting equipment, which has been the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim there was large-scale fraud in the 2020 election, federal and state and local officials are bracing for election deniers to try to weaponize news of the vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections.”
In a fell swoop election integrity activists such as those questioning results in Clinton vs Sanders become “conspiracy theorists” and “election deniers” in 2020, and truth, rather than set you free as the Bible promises, is something to be feared and “weaponized.” The difference seems to depend on whose ox is gored.
In 2016 another citizens’ group, ElectionJusticeUSA.org, issued a scathing report, Democracy Lost, which heavily suggested that Bernie Sanders did not get a fair shake in the 2016 Democratic primaries. The report’s first concluding recommendation was “Exclusive use of hand-counted paper ballots in all future US elections.”
In the 2006 HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, computer scientist Harry Hursti gave an early demonstration of how shockingly easy it is to hack into a vote tabulation machine and change the outcome of a race. The demonstration became known as the Hursti Hack.
The Hursti Hack (view at Rumble)
Finally, in one of the most startling revelations of the 2016 election season, a clever programmer discovered that vote-counting machines can count fractions of a vote, rather than only integers, a puzzling capability unless one wants to decide a margin of victory ahead of time, and then reverse engineer to the numbers of votes. He called his demonstration “Fraction Magic.”
Fraction Magic – Short Version
Hand-Count of Paper Ballots Now a Nationwide Push
Despite the media’s new portrayal of hand-counted paper ballots as a right-wing notion, citizens have been making headway following David Clement’s precept “Save the country by fixing your county.”
Clements urges people wondering what they can do to prevent election fraud this coming year to vote in person if possible, and to prevail on their county or city election commissioners to hand-count the ballots, which, despite protests that this would be akin to a return to the “horse-and-buggy,” is the method most advanced democracies use today. including Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands.
NM law school professor and former prosecutor David Clements recommended, in an interview this month, that people go before their county or municipal election commissions, and demand they satisfy constituents that elections are fair and accurate :
“You’re the constituent, the government is supposed to work for you, and so we’re seeing results so in Otero [County NM] we’ve voted to get rid of the machines to get rid of drop boxes to get to hand paper tabulation Jim Marchant done a similar thing in Nevada, in Nye County, Esmeralda county they voted to get rid of the machines. I think that’s the future, you save the country by fixing your county.” (remarks in video below starting at 4:00 minutes)
Professor David Clements at LinkedIn
David Clements on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprofsrecord
Professor David Clements Interview, pertinent remarks on elections at 4:00 minutes (view at Rumble)
Prof. David Clements addresses Gap County, PA election commission (view at Rumble)
https://coronanews123.wordpress.com...ng-states-only-proves-2020-coup-by-democrats/
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