Georgia county under scrutiny after claim of post-election breach

[AverageOldGuy]

13. WTF is wrong with the goobers?

I live in a red rural VA county where I have been on the county's three-person Electoral Board for 11 years. Our voting machines, ballots, and anything else that we deem to be sensitive is locked in a vault with two locks on the door and no one has both keys.

NOBODY goes into the vault with the voting equipment except us three EB members, the registrar, and her one deputy registrar. When we are setting up an election, a couple of volunteer firefighters (young guys with strong backs) come into the vault to help carry equipment out to a county truck and together we haul equipment, ballots, etc., around to our five precincts where the people working at the polls sign for the equipment. We reverse the system to pick up and return to the vault on election night.

Equipment is sealed and locked and no one has access to anything except the vote-counting scanners at each precinct -- and the only access there is to turn the machine on in the morning and off when the polls close. Voters stick marked ballots into the slot where the ballot is scanned, tallied, and dropped into a locked ballot box under two-person control. The folks working at our precincts would likely kick your ass if you tried to screw around with their voting equipment.

We do not allow anyone into the vault -- not County Supervisors, not the Sheriff, not Deputies, not anyone.

WTF is wrong with these goddam Georgia goobers???

Oh, wait . . . I answered my own question.