Books
Fraud
Auditing
Elections
Scanned
Ballots
Reform
Efforts
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books
(borrow
from libraries or buy: addall.com) Election
Administration in the United States, by Joseph P.
Harris, 1934, (Chapter
9 covers election fraud) Turning
Point,
by Jimmy Carter, 1992 (long term theft of Quitman County, GA, elections,
stopped by Jimmy Carter) Birth, by Peter
Harris, 2010 (fraud in counting first free South African election in 1994)) Border Boss, by J. Gilberto Quezada, 1999 (specific
frauds in Texas) Votescam, by James &
Kenneth Collier, 2000 (stresses falsified counting & reporting of
results) Paradise
Screwed,
by Carl Hiaasen, 2001 (Florida “politicians, municipal employees, judges,
lobbyists, zoning boards, evangelists, athletic franchises, environmental
scofflaws”) Black
Box Voting,
by Bev Harris, 2003 (hacking election machines, also at blackboxvoting.org) Stealing
Elections,
by John Fund, 2004 (Wall Street Journal writer, specific frauds, and voting
machine failures) Deliver
the Vote,
by Tracy Campbell, 2005 (1742-2004 history of US voter frauds &
intimidating people not to vote) fraud Types of election
fraud: ·
canceling registration ·
poor registration laws ·
switching voters' parties, to limit primary
participation ·
diversion/sale of mailed ballots ·
poor ID laws ·
ballots and records poorly locked/sealed ·
shortages of ballots, machines, polling places ·
switch votes during voting or counting ·
inaccurate counts and summation ·
expensive recounts ·
inaccurate recounts Vote counting
machines
programmed to count fractional votes; programmer; specifications (Bev
Harris), 20 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBHR9IBSsQ Voter
suppression
(Greg Palast), 58' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Uey_jekNY Biased
management of 2016 primary in Los Angeles, 41' "UNCOUNTED:
The True Story of the California Primary" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ugmNoanx8 Electronic
voting problems
for precinct workers' in 2006 primary in Maryland http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-day-at-polls-maryland-primary-06.html Nevada
had sham recount, where observers could not see what was going on. http://www.recountnow.org/clark_county_recount_performed_in_secret Diebold machines
are
locked with skeleton key easily available http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064 Exit polls
report
that Clinton won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida, though
computer counts of the votes said Trump won. http://tdmsresearch.com/2016/11/10/2016-presidential-election-table/ The
US State Department says, "Detecting fraud: Exit polls provide data that
is generally indicative of how people voted. A discrepancy between the
aggregated choices reported by voters and the official results may suggest,
but not prove, that results have been tampered with." Black
Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" Federal
government research on fraud risks "A
single clever, dishonest
programmer in a voting machine company could rig an entire
statewide election if a state uses mainly one kind of system" British
ballot-stuffing by mail Massive
election theft, through postal ballots in England in 2004. The judge notes
that the official in charge was one of the most qualified in the country, but
several candidates (a) requested absentee ballots in the name of other
voters, to be mailed to addresses of convenience, (b) picked ballots out of
letter boxes, (c) picked up completed ballots from voters & post office
workers & changed them with white-out. In
Canada robocalls were hired to
falsely tell opposing voters their polling station had been moved, an
interesting way to change the election result, especially for voters with
limited time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/05/04/pol-robocalls-ip-address-traced.html Venezuela connected to US
voting machines http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/03/forget_dubai_worry_about_smart.html |
auditing elections Rules
& reports for each
state, with costs for some Compare methods: video
or 15 pages scanned
ballots / ballot images Most election machines create an electronic scan of each ballot as
it is counted. These pdf or tif files can be
cheaply downloaded where the public can get the images and count them. These
places keep the scanned electronic images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keepimages.png
These places let the public access images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballot-foia.png
States have their own rules for releasing records to the public, under each state's
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) MuckRock helps file and track FOIA requests to all levels of government
in the US. They cooperate with FoiaMachine, free, which lets users track requests, while MuckRock offers a "full service" which submits
requests, follows up, and posts results online. BlackBox advice reform efforts 40%
of US voting machines keep an electronic scan of all ballots (anonymous of
course), which could be disseminated for open source recounts: http://blackboxvoting.org/the-brakey-method/
Trachtenberg:
how he counted scanned ballots https://www.wired.com/2008/12/unique-election/ http://www.mitchtrachtenberg.com/ourvotes.html Multistate
researchers' recommendation for risk-limiting audits (public ballot images
would be more efficient if available) https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/RLAwhitepaper12.pdf Collection
of state recount policies https://ceimn.org/recount-and-audit-laws/recount-laws-database
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jan/03/foresight-2020-recount-ii/
Reformelections.org
(including Carter/Ford National Commission on Federal
Election Reform) votingintegrity.org
National Committee for Voting Integrity Presidential
Candidate "Rocky" De La Fuente saw votes being switched by counting
officials during televised counting https://web.archive.org/web/20161107054623/https://www.rocky2016.com/rockys-blog/rocky-de-la-fuente-reality-election-fraud
"I reached out to the Sanders campaign because he was the leading
anti-establishment candidate and could have spoken up at the time, but I
never received a response." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziPh2ZcDtaY He
lists activities going on before the election: https://www.rocky2016.com/participate-vote-interact/restoring-democracy Current: https://www.rocky2016.com/rockys-blog
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