{"id":36915,"date":"2019-08-28T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36915"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:51:56","slug":"paper-ballots-might-be-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36915","title":{"rendered":"Paper Ballots Might Be A Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/459067-mississippi-officials-confirm-multiple-cases-of-voting-machines-changing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a> reported that state officials in Mississippi have confirmed at least three reports of voting machines in two counties changing voters\u2019 picks in the GOP gubernatorial primary runoff.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves are currently in a runoff for the Republican nomination in the governor\u2019s race to see who will take on Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood in the November general election. Reeves led Waller in the Aug. 6 balloting by a 49-33 margin, though the race went to a runoff after no candidate hit 50 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The issues emerged Tuesday morning, with one Facebook user posting a video showing a touch-screen voting machine changing their selection from Waller to Reeves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cIt is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for,\u201d the voter says in the video. \u201cHow can that happen?\u201d a woman in the background asks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Two other machines in Calhoun County exhibited the same issue of switching voters\u2019 selection from Waller to Reeves, circuit clerk Carlton Baker told the Ledger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>All three machines in question are of the same model.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe&#8217;re doing what we can to rectify the situation,\u201d Baker said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voting machines that change votes need to be gone by 2020. It might be the right time to go back to paper ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Hill reported that state officials in Mississippi have confirmed at least three reports of voting machines in two counties changing voters\u2019 picks in the GOP gubernatorial primary runoff. The article reports: Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36915\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4238,849,7658,11095,604,9533,368,10421],"class_list":["post-36915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballot","tag-election","tag-mississippi","tag-paper-ballots","tag-state-supreme-court","tag-the-hill","tag-voting","tag-voting-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36916,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions\/36916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}