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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's all of our's fault. We've done nothing about the fact that we keep doing the same thing and
expecting a different outcome. We vote into black boxes that leave no way of tracing votes. That should be illegal since candidates are entailed to recounts and there is nothing to recount.
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It's all of our's fault. We've done nothing about the fact that we keep doing the same thing and (Original Post)
rainy
Jun 2012
OP
The voting systems used in Wisconsin are optical scan, DRE and mechanical lever machine
rainy
Jun 2012
#8
Things have changed. Citizens United. With that in place...well....we get tonight.
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2012
#2
they are counted on diebold accuvotes then sent through a diebold central tabulators
We Want Peace
Jun 2012
#6
Indydem
(2,642 posts)1. Except fo the fact WI uses paper ballots.
We Want Peace
(205 posts)5. which are never counted by human hands or seen with human eyes
they are put through diebold central tabulators
Indydem
(2,642 posts)7. Wrong again.
They are run through ES&S machines and kept for a manual recount if necessary.
Many are hand counted.
Your conspiracy theories only reinforce your own belief that its an outside force giving you these results you dislike, not the actual will of the voters.
rainy
(6,091 posts)8. The voting systems used in Wisconsin are optical scan, DRE and mechanical lever machine
Found this on Wisconsin's government page
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)2. Things have changed. Citizens United. With that in place...well....we get tonight.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)3. Almost all of Wisconsin votes on paper ballots.
Sometimes a lost election is actually lost, not stolen.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)4. not this one. and plenty of paper ballot elections have been stolen.
We Want Peace
(205 posts)6. they are counted on diebold accuvotes then sent through a diebold central tabulators
If there is a hand recount, the bags come back torn, overstuffed, duct taped with the wrong numbers...and they still count them as valid.
This is so fucked up!