Video shows electronic voting machine changing ballot in Mississippi

washingtonpost.com

4 pointstraderjane2 comments

> Over and over again, the man touches a box on an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot for Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller Jr. And over and over again, the machine instead checks off a vote for Waller’s opponent in Tuesday’s GOP runoff, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.

> “How would that happen?” a woman exclaims in the background.

> “It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for,” the man says.

You do realize this works as designed?

A cheap, secure, verifiable method (paper ballot) has been replaced by something that can easily and (often) untraceably change the results of the vote (electronic machines) for a reason.

The reason is to keep those currently in power - in power. This must be obvious to everybody by now.

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