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Election Reform

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MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
Mon May 27, 2013, 11:02 AM May 2013

I'm checking at county level tomorrow, suspicious election results... [View all]

I and others have a strong sense that the election we just ran was tampered with. This is not a "sour grapes" thread. I'm concerned -

1) There were ballot errors in one precinct of a running mate of mine (her name didn't appear when the primary voter should have seen it as a Democrat). The judge of elections noted it at the precinct.

2) There was a very big spread by the other side that were predicted to the exact number by a "political foe", giving newcomers who campaigned poorly and nastily 70% to 30% leads. We all campaigned door to door and knew who we were talking to.

3) I'm willing to concede my loss for the above numbers, but knowing 2 out of my 4 districts as well as I do, the numbers did not make sense. I will know more when I see actual voter rolls.

4) iVotronics (no paper trail, programs that can be tampered with)


Anyone have advice other than getting copy of voter rolls and trying to undertake some type of exit poll, based on the voters we all talked to? In the past, we caught an open primary being conducted and prepared for that possibility this time. Then... WAM... the persons who would have challenged the machine here were promptly SWEPT. Is there ANY way to see if the programming was tampered with?

Thanks.

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K&R patrice May 2013 #1
There's something called a Ballot Definition File. Wilms May 2013 #2
Yes, you can vote straight party. MrMickeysMom May 2013 #4
Do that. Wilms May 2013 #6
Will read this in a while, meanwhile... MrMickeysMom May 2013 #7
Got it. Thanks. Wilms May 2013 #10
Let me clarify the straight-party voting answer... MrMickeysMom May 2013 #9
Sorry I have no advice, elleng May 2013 #3
Thank you, elleng... MrMickeysMom May 2013 #5
K&R and please keep posted-nt Anansi1171 May 2013 #8
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