What happens when citizens find that the voting process is rigged?
In the last presidential election there were precincts in some of the major cities where President Obama received 100 percent of the votes cast…this is a statistical impossibility.
And we all know the stories about many Chicago voters who according to popular legend supposedly vote multiple times, and many of the dead in Illinois continue to vote long after they’re gone.
I have a friend who ran for Congress for a second term; during his first term, he won by a large margin.
Late in his first term his congressional district was restructured and, in the next election, he lost by less than 1000 votes. It was later determined that in one precinct, 148 percent of the registered voters voted. And in another precinct over 130 percent of the registered voters voted. The votes were contested but nothing materialized as a result.
I also read that a programmer can use less than one hundred lines of code and this minor change could make a difference on which candidate wins or loses.
The article went on to say that this code change is difficult to detect and that a computer programmer representing all parties would have to go over the entire code line by line to see if any of the code had been altered to favor a specific candidate….a very difficult task.
So, the highest office in the land could, in theory, be determined by inserting less than 100 lines of code.
Do you think someone or some group would attempt to do this? With the extremely high stakes at hand, this is a distinct possibility. And there’s big money people with a specific political agenda who would love to see this happen.
A prime example is the fact that Utah has elected to allow voting via the Internet at least for their primary caucus. The software company selected is Smartmatic Corp, a British firm, whose Chairman is Lord Mark Malloch-Brown. It seems that the Chairman of Smartmatic is also on the board of directors of a number of George Soros’s companies. So how could anyone possibly trust the integrity of this software company?
Actually, a voter fraud incidence happened in Texas when votes were automatically changed from one candidate to another. Therefore, it can happen and, unfortunately, will probably happen in at least some areas of the country.
If widespread voter fraud is ever detected and confirmed, I don’t know what would happen…perhaps another visit to the Supreme Court or, worst case, massive civil unrest.
John Shields
Scottsdale
