Acceptance of voting machines and the electronic counting of votes is the acceptance of corruption and tyranny. Remember that Stalin is reported to have said that who votes does not matter but the who counts the votes does.
The explanation is as follows.
All computers have clocks that are used to sequence the instructions in all computer programs, so that once a computer is turned on and the correct date is inserted it knows the year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and second at any future time. If it is connected to a GPS it will also know where it is. Both can be included in a voting machine.
When this duo is connected to a machine that electronically counts the votes all of that capability is available to either the government or to a private contractor who provides the voting machines on election day. With the following information that is accessible from public records for each precinct each voting machine can be programmed to give a plausible winning vote ratio for the desired candidate in each precinct.
These public records give the number of voters at each polling place in the last election, how many voted for each party, how many registered voters there are on this election day, the racial composition of the precinct from the last census, the number of homes sold and purchased from tax records as an indication of possible racial and economic changes in this precinct since the last census and the last election, the value of the homes in the precinct from the property tax records, the number of businesses and their economic status from these same records, and the criminal activity in the precinct from police records.
The computer can then have two subprograms; program A to be called on every day except election day and at any location not at its assigned location on election day and program B that is only active on election day and only at the assigned polling location.
The voting machined will then call program A to give an honest vote on any test sample at any time and at any place not on election day. It will also call program A on election day at any location other than its assigned polling location. And it will also call on program A at the polling place before or after the time when voting is to take place on election day.
But on election day at its assigned location and during the hours when voting is to take place it calls on program B, which contains an identifier for the candidate who is to win the election and the winning vote percentage or ratio for that precinct.
All of this should be evident to most computer users and the details of how it can be done can be explained by most software or program writers.
One attempt to thwart vote fraud when voting machines are used is to have them give each voter a receipt written either on hard to counterfeit paper or with proprietary ink. However this succeeds only if the receipts are honestly counted and if voters are not afraid to submit their voting receipts.
Another is to demand slower hand counting of votes to insure an honest vote recording with each vote counter observed by a television camera that broadcasts those pictures locally during the vote counting for everyone to see and record.
