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2016 Postmortem

Frustratedlady

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4. Since we don't really need to know the results of each election within a couple hours...

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:08 AM

Dec 2016

I think it is past time to return to the old ballpoint pen and sheets of paper. ..purple thumbs wouldn't hurt. It is obvious the machines have caused nothing but heartache and headache...certainly haven't saved us any money.

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So its looking like the recounts are rigged... [View all] Joe941 Dec 2016 OP

We've never improved the counting or re-counting process since 2000. SharonAnn Dec 2016 #1

Newer machines, fewer paper trails, decreasing audit ability TXCritter Dec 2016 #2

Just remember... LP2K12 Dec 2016 #3

Since we don't really need to know the results of each election within a couple hours... Frustratedlady Dec 2016 #4

" I think our only hope " NCTraveler Dec 2016 #5

Exactly n/t SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #9

Pretty much Dem2 Dec 2016 #14

The recount was never a real hope? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #18

Desperation leadds to desperate acts n/t SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #19

Desperation. NCTraveler Dec 2016 #20

That's the problem with "demanding" recounts with no evidence original tally was substantively Hoyt Dec 2016 #6

I wouldn't put something in an email... Blanks Dec 2016 #7

Yep SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #11

Yup. Emails go all over the place, and once you send it, security depends on other systems. Yo_Mama Dec 2016 #13

I don't think they were permitted to recount the WI absentee/early and provisional votes. ucrdem Dec 2016 #8

They did count SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #10

There is no information or even evidence, classified or not, that shows the vote totals were hacked. Yo_Mama Dec 2016 #12

Vote totals no... Ballot and tabulator machines... maybe that's what Turtle said no to protecting uponit7771 Dec 2016 #15

The vote totals come from those machines, which are not connected to the internet Yo_Mama Dec 2016 #16

Since you don't like the recount results, what other explanation could there possibly be? tritsofme Dec 2016 #17