@Cyber Liberty@roamer_1 No. 1 Post: Counting Machines At Polling Places and Tabulating Machines in Central Counting If I don't know something, I beat it to death until I know it all. I knew it all about voting machines/tabulators in Texas until about 2012. I knew for positive no machines used in elections was connected to the internet. The only way to mess with election machines was to have one in your possession and physically change it. Machines across the country, THEN, were NOT connected to the internet. In the presidential election of 2016, there were two men on the internet who said they could change a voting machine. They had a machine in their possession and somewhat explained how they did it. The problem with these guys, as I said then, was they had to have the machine. When a county's voting machines are programmed for an election, they are locked up so no one can get to them. There are normally two locks on the door where the machines are and one key is given to the election's administrator, and one to the sheriff. Counties do not leave their programmed machines out in the open where they could be touched by unauthorized personnel.
These machines are programmed and the Republican Chairman and the Democrat Chairman meet with the elections administrator and each machine is checked for accuracy. If the machine is not accurate it is taken out and reprogrammed until it is accurate. On election day, the sheriff's deputies take the machines to the proper polling place, where the Judge and Alternate Judge, one of each Party, check that all the machines are set at 0.
Now, since this 2020 election, there is so much angst about changing voting machines numbers, I am studying this to see if it is possible to change a machine without physically having the machine. I have an expert to help me on programming and how machines could/could not, be connected to allow its numbers to be changed.
Here is every state and the machines they used in this 2020 election Voting equipment usage in the November 3, 2020, general electionState Ballot marking methods Tabulation methodsAlabama Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Alaska Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
Arizona Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan
Arkansas BMDs for all voters Optical scan
California All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Optical scan
Colorado All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Hand
count and optical scan
Connecticut Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Delaware BMDs for all voters Optical scan
Florida Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Georgia BMDs for all voters Optical scan
Hawaii All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Idaho Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Illinois Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Indiana Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs without VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Iowa Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Kansas Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with and without VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Kentucky Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs without VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Louisiana DREs without VVPAT for all voters DRE
Maine Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
Maryland Voting center jurisdiction: hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Optical scan
Massachusetts Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
Michigan Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Minnesota Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
Mississippi Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with and without VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Missouri Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Montana Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
Nebraska Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Nevada All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
New Hampshire Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Hand count and optical scan
New Jersey All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs without VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
New Mexico Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
New York Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
North Carolina Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
North Dakota Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Ohio Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Oklahoma Hand-marked paper ballots; direct recording assistive interface for accessibility without VVPAT Optical scan
Oregon All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Optical scan
Pennsylvania Hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Optical scan
Rhode Island Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
South Carolina BMDs for all voters Optical scan
South Dakota Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Tennessee Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs without VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Texas Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs without VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Utah All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
Vermont All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots and BMDs Hand count and optical scan
Virginia Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs for accessibility Optical scan
Washington All-mail ballots. Election Day voting centers: hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan and DRE
West Virginia Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Wisconsin Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Hand count, optical scan, and DRE
Wyoming Hand-marked paper ballots, BMDs, and DREs with VVPAT Optical scan
Source: Verified Voting, "The Verifier – Polling Place Equipment – November 2020," accessed October 15, 2020
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Number 2 Post will be the exact wording of Pennsylvania Election Law pertaining to their machines and their exact law about qualifying mail ballots.