Kari Lake wants to get rid of early, mail-in voting.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by james112

It's not a good idea to ever transport ballots from one location to another. Just adds another factor that can have a glitch.

I consider cast ballots almost sacred. The best scenario would be to have voters drop ballots into ONE transparent box, and then tally them one at a time at the precinct, all on camera. I would make it ILLEGAL for anyone to touch or transport a ballot after it's cast into that box except the one person who tallies them. This person would remove one ballot out of the box, tally it on camera, and place it into a storage box. Or if using machine the same thing. All captured on one non-stop video. So that proof of tally accuracy is on video. Any tally error will also be on video.

In your case the ballots are all transported to a central location and tallied there. Just do the same at the counting center and tally one at a time on camera, as if at the precinct. There is no reason I can think of not to video ballot casting, tallying, etc.

Undervotes can be tallied too on camera. Add those as well. Using a ballot machine to tally is ok IF each ballot is displayed as it's tallied, on camera.

The counts cannot be done at each location. State law prohibits transmitting the counts over the internet, and Harris County, like all large networks, uses the internet to connect the remote locations. And that's ignoring the fact that the 780+ polling locations are 90% or more not on County property.

Harris County had 1.1 million voters cast their ballots. No way that's going on to video, it would be far too slow.

There was a proposal to have County Law Enforcement Officers transport the ballots, but that's prohibited by state law as well. Which is a pain, since many of the polling locations are more than 30 miles from the central location. This is a very large county, almost 1800 square miles, and mostly urban.

[banjomike]

Good luck!
90% of Arizona voters vote by mail.

I would too, if the choice was a mail-in ballot versus standing in line for an hour in 100º heat.
Arizona has millions of elderly voters too, and they can't or don't want to stand in lines or deal with crowded polling places.

Lake won't ever get what she wants.

[amploud]

Originally Posted by AZLiam

It's now Thursday and this was posted last evening after they reported on Tuesday that it was about 20% of 223 voting centers in Maricopa County. I'm not understanding why they had to wait a whole day to figure that there were other locations experiencing the same thing. There appears to be a lack of communication.

Best case scenario: This is sheer and utter incompetence from the people who are supposed to ensure integrity in the state of Arizona. And those people are headed by the Arizona Secratary of State. Hmm, who is that again?

Worst case scenario? This wasn't incompetence and wasn't an accident.