No vote - No need to change it
Is anyone looking into how the Russians' interference could have been targeted at screwing with voter ROLLS not the Polls?
As local recorder offices were cleaning up rolls of (perceived) ineligible voters, prepping for the 2016 election — could this have been the way hackers could do damage and not be noticed?
I recall several reports from Arizona, Southern California, another state on the east coast — where voters showed up to cast their ballots — to find they were no longer on the roll and were refused their vote (that day?).
I can’t find facts or figures — here are some other resources to wander around
Bill Moyers Report — billmoyers.com/...
Many People Who Wanted to Vote Could Not
More research is needed before we can definitively say whether or not voting problems affected the outcome of races.
By Brennan Center Staff | November 16, 2016
This post originally appeared at Brennan Center for Justice.
Key issues outlined in Moyer’s article — some, not all — are relative to DIGITAL DATA …
Outdated Voting Equipment Failed Voters
Aging voting machines are a known risk to the functioning of the voting system and public confidence. In 2015, the Brennan Center warned that 42 states use machines that are at least a decade old and approaching the end of their projected lifespans.
There were many reported machine problems across the country in 2012, but even more this year. These problems took a number of forms:
Voting machine problems were also reported in Alabama, Maryland, Michigan and South Carolina.
But the problems were not just limited to just machines. This year’s election also presented a relatively new problem from a promising technology: electronic poll books. When functioning properly, electronic poll books can speed up the process for checking in voters. But on Election Day in Durham, North Carolina, electronic poll books failed by incorrectly indicating which voters had already cast ballots, which forced poll workers to check in voters by hand. Eventually, some polling places began turning away voters after running out of the paper forms that were used to check in voters instead. This led to long lines and the extension of voting hours in eight Durham precincts. And in Colorado, the state’s voter registration database shut down and caused rippling disruptions. There were problems with this technology in a handful of places in 2012 (Kansas, Virginia, Maryland and Michigan), but nothing affecting an entire county and requiring the drastic measures used this year.
(Some interesting history to view on NBC News site)
NBC NEWS
www.nbcnews.com/…
Election 2016: Tracking Reports of Voting Problems Across the United States
by Zachary Roth