Wisconsin Election Officials Reject Hand Counts After Electronic Scanners Make Big Mistake

[Coyotl]

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New Video: Watch Wisconsin Election Officials Reject Hand Counts After Electronic Scanners Make Big Mistake
"I am just stunned at how inaccurate the whole thing is."
By Lulu Friesdat / December 16, 2016

The Wisconsin presidential recount may be over, but it revealed how deeply flawed America's voting machinery can be.

After Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed for a recount in the state and paid the $3.4 million fee, she went to court seeking a hand count of all paper ballots. That is the only way to tell if the electronic voting machinery is properly reading the ink marks on the ballots. A state judge agreed that was the "gold standard," but said under state law that it was up to county election officials to decide how they would recount the ballots.

Filmmaker Lulu Friesdat went to Racine, where she and a colleague filmed the Green Party's observers catching an electronic ballot scanning error and their failed attempt to convince local election officials to verify the vote count by hand counting one 300-person precinct. They observed one scanner misreading 15 ballots in the Village of Elmwood Park Ward 1, a ward that had 310 votes total. That is an error rate of 5 percent in a state where Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 22,000 votes or less than 1 percent of the vote, according to the official count.

This snapshot of the process is a microcosm of what occurs across America ..................

[TCJ70]

1. That's wrong...

...if you have demonstrated evidence that machines aren't counting votes correctly, the only alternative is a hand recount. What else could you do?

[shraby]

2. Problem is, the gop made the law so the hand count can't be demanded.

[TCJ70]

4. I should have been clearer. I totally get why it's happening...

...just very much disagree with it.

[Coyotl]

3. Orders from above (Republicans) in the elections command chain.

The can only win if they fight on every front to defeat the popular will, and that includes lots of illegal activity.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. What a (fill-in-the-blank)!!!

Who in the hell was that woman at the end? She's beyond awful!

[Mc Mike]

6. Those ballots should be public property, public domain, subject to FOIA requests.

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They're anonymous, unsigned, and we already have a publicly reported vote count total. So what's the problem?

The only reason to NOT allow the hand recount or access to those ballots is because the jangly braceleted Walker/dRumpfite in charge knows that access will show the repugs stole the election.

Period.

[byronius]

7. And this is why conservative now means criminal.

Man, do they hate America.

[boston bean]

8. Infuriating.

[iluvtennis]

9. Sickening and in Detroit and Flint where 75k votes weren't counted nt

[Rex]

10. I'm stunned it is 2016 and it feels like 2000 all over again, on steroids.

If only the people that tabulate the votes were non-partisan, non-profit companies.

[Coyotl]

11. If only the people tabulated the votes, instead of corporate, secret code.

[Rex]

12. Or we have a third objective party tally the votes, with open source code.

Nobody should own our election, shame they do right? $$$

Looks like the Koch brothers got a bonus this year, a fellow blue blooded plutocrat.

We might not know what Trump is going to do, but we do know where his loyalties will be - NOT with the working class.

He can barely tolerate us!

Yikes!