{"id":29834,"date":"2016-12-16T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29834"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:57:07","slug":"checking-the-integrity-of-our-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29834","title":{"rendered":"Checking The Integrity Of Our Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Detroit News<\/a> posted an article about some problems with the Presidential Election in Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

County clerk officials on Thursday released a memo to State Elections Director Chris Thomas that said 95 poll books<\/a> from the 662 precincts weren\u2019t available at the start of the canvass, which began the day after the Nov. 8 election. Five of those poll books, which contain the names of voters and ensure the integrity of elections, were never delivered to county canvassers and presumably remain missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The revelation comes atop other irregularities that have prompted a state audit. Among other issues, The Detroit News reported this week that voting machines registered more votes <\/a>than they should have in one-third of all city precincts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not happy with how Detroit handled this election at all,\u201d said Krista Hartounian, chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, which certified the election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had been seeing improvement, but this one was different. This one was off.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canvassers compare poll books with printouts from voting machines to ensure the number of people who signed in to vote match the number of ballots cast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article goes on to list other irregularities that occurred during the election. Please follow the link above to read the details.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The M100s, which are used in 55 percent of Michigan\u2019s precincts, have a spotty reputation. In 2008, then-Oakland County Clerk<\/a> Ruth Johnson<\/a>, who is now secretary of state, urged federal officials to investigate after the optical scanners improperly counted 8 percent of ballots during testing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe same ballots, run through the same machines, yielded different results each time,\u201d Johnson wrote to the Election Assistance Commission<\/a>, an agency that administers federal payments to states to buy voting machines.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnson wrote that vendors blamed dust and debris inside the machines. A Michigan Senate<\/a> Fiscal Agency report noted the machines still run on the Windows XP operating system<\/a>, which Microsoft<\/a> has not sold since 2008 and for which it stopped providing support and security updates in 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know how much of this voter ID would cure, but it might be a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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