Thread by @mikefarb1

#unhackthevote

Michigan, ES&S and the Voting Machines that couldn’t count!!

Why are States Buying and Using Machines that don’t pass testing?

It is infuriating!!

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All along there have been problems with electronic voting. Again and again election officials and observers have spoken up, only to be ignored.

In 2008 an election official in Oakland County Michigan noticed something alarming.with ES&S optical scan machines. Here is the story.

Optical-scan machines made by Election Systems & Software failed recent pre-election tests in a Michigan county, producing different tallies for the same ballots every time.
wired.com/2008/11/michig…

Different Tallies for the same ballots every time!! Not reproducible errors. Different Tallies each time. This is an important differentiation. Different errors and you have a real significant issue.

Here is the letter from the Oakland County Clerk to the EAC, requesting urgent assistance with this matter.  wired.com/images_blogs/t…

Eight percent of our communities reported inconsistent vote totals during their logic and accuracy testing. The same ballots, run through the same machines, yielded different results each time.

Conflicting vote totals have reportedly surfaced in other areas of Michigan.

On Election day, will the record number of ballots going through the tabulators leave even more residue, affecting machines that tested just fine initially? Could this skew vote totals?

My understanding is that the problem could occur and election workers would have no inkling that ballots are being misread.

Local clerks are prohibited from performing any maintenance/cleaning on the machines as it voids the warranties.

ES&S has not performed any preventative maintenance since the machines were delivered three years ago.

20 Years with these Electronic Machines and all are talking about is counting. Every other industry in the world has mastered the complexities of adding one plus one.

How long would Banks use ATM'S that handed out the wrong amount of money?

This is crazy.

These States are using overly complex machines. In many cases machines that the poll workers have no idea ho to handle when things go wrong. Machines that prohibit the States from looking into them because of agreements the States sign against their best interest.

Billions of dollars spent. Long term contracts. Machines that are not examinable. Companies that don’t care.

And then we wind up where we are.

Magic Boxes. Doing Magic things. All the time preventing us from knowing what is happening.

This is our Election Infrastructure.

But don’t say anything. Everything is fine.

Interesting side note. Michigan was so upset that they purchased these crappy machines that last year when the contract came up guess which company they went with. Bingo!! ES&S.