Could we please begin our examination of why "all the polls were wrong" by vowing

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12. We need to eliminate any voting machine that doesn't scan a human marked ballot

In VA, I take a piece of paper with names and ovals on it.

I color in the ovals beside the names I like and feed that piece of paper into a scanner.

This year, the scanner read my votes for Joe Biden, Mark Warner and Abagail Spanberger into the elections database and dropped the paper in a locked bin.

If the board of elections wants to, they can count the votes on the paper and cross check those totals against the database totals.

We should do this everywhere. This setup, machine counting of human marked paper, should be the norm, so if the results diverge from the polling, humans can audit the returns by looking at the human marked inputs to determine if we have bad polling or fraud.

I'm convinced that touchscreen voting machines with no paper trail are giving incorrect results. In some cases it is deliberate fraud.

In others it is because they are built quickly, cheaply and badly by some fly-by-night company owned by a politician's brother-in-law and they suck as data processing systems.