Georgia is using Dominion voting machines again even though there mountains of evidence proving their unreliability. Here's another one near Rome:
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1847377199210647877Note that the Whitfield County Board of Elections acknowledges that there is a problem with machines switching votes. Their solution is for voters to police the printouts of their ballots from the machines instead of fixing the machines.
The whole ballot process in Georgia stinks to high heaven. It goes like this:
- You go to the first table and give them your name.
- The poll workers locate your name in the 'system'.
- They give you a plastic card that you use to access the voting machine.
- You insert your card into the voting machine and then make your selections on the screen.
- You take your card out and proceed to a printer where you insert your card again.
- The printer prints out a copy of your ballot.
- The poll worker keeps your card and hands you your ballot (which the poll worker can see).
- The poll worker then instructs you to go to a machine (that the poll worker chooses) to submit your ballot.
- I've been told face-up or face-down doesn't matter. But knowing how scanners work, I don't believe that.
The problem incurred in Whitfield county was with the fifth step above. The voter entered the card into the printer, and the printer printed out a ballot different candidates selected that the voter did not choose which by itself can be self-policed. But what happens after that? What happens with the paper scanner?
This entire process is so convoluted. First off, if there is a printer printing ballots, then there is an electronic copy of everything printed. This electronic record is excluded from any and all vote checks or recounts in Georgia elections. Think about that. Every single vote is recorded on a printer hard drive somewhere. But no one has access to those drives. No one.
Next, we have the ballot printouts that come from those printers. These are the only physical items of evidence that exist for a Georgia vote. These are NOT items of evidence generated by the voter (such as a hand-marked ballot). They are generated by the voting machine system.
It galls me to no end that here we are four years later, and we still have the same voting system in place that failed us so miserably - twice in 2020 and twice in 2022. Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling belong in prison.
