Both parties? The SOE here doesnt give 2 shits about party affiliation. You check in... and are given a paper ballot. You fill in your choices much like a standardized test. Should you have the need to write in your candidate...theres room for that as well. Put your ballot in the folder and head towards the exit. You cast your ballot by handing it to someone at the machine (s). I did notice a data cable coming out of the machine and it as connected to some kind of celluar modem. I cant say Ive ever seen a ballot "rejected" or spit out for being "incomplete" at my poll location the 15+ years Ive voted there. I have never been to our local warehouse where the machines are transported to and opened. I know where the facility is and understood that there is a graveyard shift before and after election day to distribute & round up all the machines throughout the city. I know for a fact that the only "loose" ballots are unused ones and they all have serial #s. The used ones stay in the machine until they get back to the warehouse. Damaged ones are put in a specific container and brought back as well. News media is not allowed into the building though they often do live remotes in front of the loading dock. Thats how it works in North FL.
If Miami-Dade county went 1 year without some kind of Gov't Official, Administrative, or Police corruption scandal... the World has probably ended...because it will never happen!
It is impossible to not have undervotes and overvotes that the machine will not count and which must be hand counted. How are those handled? It sounds like there are no controls over your process at all.
I would guess if you wanted to audit ballots it would be really easy to randomly pick out the serial # of the ballot and see if it were counted in the gross total on the machine. Maybe they do it different in Hazzard County, where youre from? Another interesting point... Gillum won in my county and other major metro areas by a suprising margin. Guess you should offer your consulting services to all of Floridas SOEs. It sounds like you really know the system and its flaws.
I'm not sure why you're throwing auditing ballots in there, the question is handling them in the open where the people can see the process. What is your familiarity with the system there, do you work at the polls?
I dont work at the polls or for the SOE (Supervisor of Elections). But if you are interested in joining... here you go https://www.duvalelections.com/Poll-Workers/Poll-Worker-Information Why wouldnt auditing ballots make sense? Whether you wanted to audit 1 or 10,000. Why would you want to introduce "human error" into the process?
The human error was she got caught twice already and they did not replace her with a more clever criminal.
I just received the following wire from my generous daddy — "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." —JFK, Gridiron Dinner, 1958
Humans handle the ballots at several times in the process and the ballots which the machine actually does reject, even if you're not aware of it, have to be handled by people, and possibly several depending on the problem. It isn't error so much as fraud that needs to be monitored.
Im sure its possible for the machine to reject it. Ive never personally witnessed it. I did witness a snowflake tear her ballot. From what I could tell they simply made her recheck in and gave her another ballot and put her damaged one in a container. The process is just shading in some dots on a card. No punching chad bullshit or levers to pull. If the machine spits it back... you would be standing there to witness it.
Yall fuckers need to get with the new millennium. WTF are you still using paper ballots and shading/punching circles?
We use paper fed into machines. A huge disadvantage of electronic voting is no paper trail when shady crap is happening.
If you can vote on an electronic machine why not just skip having polls and vote online? Any IT security guy could monitor that real easy while being supervised by an official. No need to staff polling places either. Just imagine the carbon footprint savings
The day we move to all electronic voting is the day the Republic dies. There will be NO verifiable accountability for any election, everything will be subject to hack and speculation. Voter turnout and trust in the government will drop to virtually nill.
I contend, after watching Broward and Palm Beach, that we have NO verifiable accountability now. Our little Republic goes good with ice cream.
