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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
That does not seem practical does it? How would you "see" your ballot counted? In my state, if you vote in person you put your ballot into the tabulator. That doesn't really prove that it was counted. It could be fake. The machine could be counting it differently than you voted. Your "receipt" could be bogus. The number they gave you for your count could be completely made up. No, you gotta take some things on faith and trust. Until you know who came along and got beat, Americans rightly had a good deal of both in their elections.
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Agree with your concerns. How do you know your ballot count counted, and accurately? And there are no added fake ballots?
I think it's possible with a run-off election and the ballot has a few candidates. We go back to voting in person at your local precinct. It all starts with valid registered voters. You must register in the county you live in by providing proof of residence, ID, etc.
At the precinct you show your ID and voter registration card. Then you drop your ballot into a large see-through ballot box. When voting is over the ballots are taken out and counted. Here's the new twist: it's ALL on live stream camera, and recorded for playback later. A lot of precincts ban cameras. What's to hide?
In my system cameras record EVERYTHING in each precinct on election day:
1. Video each person in line to drop their ballot. Yes, you get in line one by one. There is only ONE ballot box and it's clear and see-through and on live camera. This allows PROOF of how many people dropped a ballot into the ballot box.
2. Video captures ballots taken out of the box ONE AT A TIME and counted at a table that has an adding machine also ONE AT A TIME. Everyone can see the adding machine on a large display. Each ballot is shown on camera and a poll worker adds +1 to the candidate on the ballot. We thus see each ballot counted one at a time, and we see the adding machine add +1 to the candidates tally. Every tally starts at ZERO and adds +1.
Anyone in the public can watch and also record on camera it all too. This way there will be multiple cameras recording it all.
Each precinct does this same thing. Anyone can watch the live stream of the voting and tallying, or watch the videos posted online. IN this way you know your ballot was counted because you got in line and dropped your ballot, and watched every ballot get counted.
When the last ballot taken out of the box is counted, the adding machine shows the final tallies, also on live/recorded camera. That's the precinct totals showing the winner. Every precinct does the same and precinct tallies are all totaled together only when all videos of the precincts are gathered. A spreadsheet is posted online that counts the precincts together. ANYONE can watch any precinct video to confirm EVERY ballot was counted accurately.
This is one way you know your ballot was counted. VIDEO IS PROOF! We use video in court rooms and in sports games.
This is going back to the old way of voting. You have to show up and drop a ballot into a box. Sticking your ballot into a machine is untrustworthy. Especially when a precinct has multiple machines. One machine might be defective. No more computers and machines! Use adding machines and video! And each ballot counted one at a time, starting with count ZERO on up, +1
I think there might be a way to actually see your ballot being counted. Still working on that. However the above system proves your ballot got counted, and tallied accurately.
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Political analysts and consultants of both parties have known this for decades.
That's like saying Texas is red because they cheat in elections.
