When I wrote this article back in 2006 I tried to make parallels between the internal cultural and institutional decay in the United States and what had taken place in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
This takes zero voter skills, like any untrained person can play the lottery. How do you do the lottery? Vote for numbers with graphite bubbles on the paper, and run it through the machine. Simple. That's all there is to it. Your lottery ticket shows how you voted for the numbers (instead of candidates). Your lottery receipt proves which numbers you voted for. So now the organizers can't steal your million dollars if you are the winner. For an election it's the same deal. Just vote for candidate A or candidate B with a graphite oval filled in for your choice. Same for all other candidate races and other ballot proposals. When you put your ballot in the voting machine, your receipt is your own xerox copy. It has a secret number that only you selected and only you know what it is. So even though every vote is anonymous public information, only you can personally identify your vote (on the results google search) and tie it to your ballot, using your own personal xerox copy. And only if you want to. If you want to expose vote fraud, now your xerox copy proves your vote was changed around or totally hijacked. If everything is OK, you can stay quiet and know your vote was counted correctly. You can also check with friends and find out whether their vote was stolen, and you can form groups of victims of vote theft if you catch it going on. So you don't have to challenge the system all by yourself when you catch vote stealers stealing a lot of votes.
Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
By organizing with others we can recover an honest count of the ballots. We need to count them publicly at each polling place & phone the tally to a newspaper which will publish the tally at each polling place so that we may assure ourselves that the total is correct.
It is not fiat money which is the problem, but money under the control of private interests. The Federal Reserve isn't Federal; it's private & hasn't even been audited-- ever. Our government pays INTEREST to the Federal Reserve to issue OUR currency: robbery!
Honest voting can be achieved by a simpler, faster, and more direct method. It's already being done with the accountability system used for every lottery ticket that is purchased. And the following doesn't depend on newspapers slowing things down or trying corrupt hijinks of their own. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Jackie, I'm sorry but this seems to rely on voters being sufficiently diligent to verify that their vote is correctly tabulated & surely everyone won't do that,. Further, as with all things computer, it's subject to hacking.
I still think that voting w/o computers w simple paper ballots counted at the polling place and in public is better. No hijinks are available to a newspaper which is simply publishing polling place totals. Everyone who witnessed the count & signed off on it can readily verify the vote tabulation.
We already know of countless examples of computerized voting fraud. Your suggestion is inventive, but I believe also open to fraud.
Today zero percent of the voters can check their vote. If only 10% do verify their vote, that prospect severely limits the chances for vote stealers being able to get away with anything. You are right that paper ballots is the ideal way to do things, sort of. But that's true only when you have real Democrats and real Republicans (or whatever) checking up on one another. But that is corruptible if I am a crooked local Party A boss and I have my friends infiltrate Party B. It appears the tabulations that go on until 3 a.m. are quality controlled, but if all the vote counters are actually under my greaseball party boss control from Party A then the tabulations will end up the way I want, the ballot boxes will be physically stuffed to be in agreement, and you will have zero percent chance to have a clue your vote was stolen when you thought you could get a good night's sleep.
I have a more detailed explanation I just put out on Substack, and you can peruse through that if you have time to see whether I have left anything out regarding your concerns when I present more details. As in less fraud is available than you likely imagine, and if any occurs the individual can catch it pronto, with no ambiguity relative to the voter who knows what he did. You also don't know how honest this or that journalist might be. But if you hear from several of your friends in your precinct and nearby precincts that their votes were stolen, and they hold xeroxes just like you do to prove they are telling the truth, and you can see with your own eyes on the computer screen that their votes like your xerox copy were falsely counted, then you know the truth and have a clue how bad the problem is according to the percentage of your friends who know their vote was stolen. And you can physically check up on every one of them and you can show your own tallied results reciprocally.
If the system is restructured, computerized voting fraud will become virtually to totally impossible. I will next try to append the longer version of the proposal I posted a few minutes ago so you don't have to wander around looking it up. Please criticize with any weaknesses you find, as I don't presume to have 100% of the answers. I just want to be able to check up on my vote, and ditto for my friends. If people are too lethargic to spend 3 minutes reviewing their vote a few hours after, how committed to anything are they in the first place? And, done electronically and verifiably, the results are faster and less error prone. My mother used to do the hand counting of ballots in our local precinct when I was a kid in the 1950's and 1960's. I remember what a grinding chore it was, and just like we no longer need accountants with green eyeshades toiling next to a Dickensian candle, we can be more merciful to our vote accountants by modernizing. It works fine for auditing the credit card system, the lottery system, banking, and millions of cash registers. They have managed to escape from the paperwork equivalent of the Stone Age just fine. So looking at the larger picture it is ridiculous for our voting system to still be stranded in the Dark Ages at best.
Here is Part One of the referenced longer version I posted on my Substack about an hour ago 2-27-2023. I should point out this new way of doing things does not preclude a paper ballot vote counting system just as you prefer. You can still do paper ballots out of the voting machine, counting them by hand just as you wish late into the night. My proposal additionally lets the individual verify his own individual vote, and if even a few people want to do it that is their right-- to verify the integrity (if any) of the system. If the manual vote counters are honest, they should have no objection to individual citizens checking up on their accuracy.
Part One===============
Today, any time you vote you have no clue whether your vote was counted at all. Or was changed and then counted in falsified form. If this is done to many other voters, an entire election can be stolen. But fortunately, with modern technology, this problem can be solved easily and economically. As a matter of fact, this type of data management is already being used in our everyday lives. So we have to wonder why computers are not already used to do quality control in elections— to make sure they are honest.
Now, what is the overlooked technology that can control vote stealing and force elections to be less subject to corrupt hijinks? The way it works is you go to your ordinary polling place and get checked in, same as usual. That step is subject to security problems of its own, like false identities and multiple votes cast by the same person on the same day. That part of voting fraud is a different kettle of fish and I am not addressing those issues here. But what I am proposing happens at the next step of the voting process.
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To wit: once you are checked in as a hopefully legitimate voter of a given precinct, you proceed to the ballot-issuing machine. On the screen are several dozen numbers and they are approximately like serial numbers. Some will be deliberately missing and put up on the screen later. That is so when you pull off a number early in the day, nobody can tell you picked, say, number 78. If you use the mouse to pick 78 and there are already at the start of the day half the numbers from 1 to 101 missing by design, then the second voter cannot tell which number you picked. And the third and fourth voters don’t really have a clue what possible numbers the handful of prior voters might have used. Such divination can’t be done because during the first several dozen votes, 50 numbers or so at a time are missing. But once say 30 people have voted, and guessing who previously used which number is impossible, then available ballot numbers to be picked from the screen no longer need to be held back.
So, that detail aside: You get checked in, you go to the ballot numbering screen and that is easy since it’s the only screen there is. You pick the number you want in secrecy so nobody can see your selection. When you hit “enter” the number vanishes from the screen and appears printed on your dispensed ballot, along with the ID for the state, county, and precinct which is uniform for everyone at the same polling place. Folders are available for you to hide the ballot inside. Nobody sees what number you selected from the screen and nobody sees your ballot. After you fill in the little bubbles on the ballot with graphite, you slide your ballot out of its privacy folder into the voting machine. Out comes your xerox copy, on counterfeit-proof paper. If desired, the time of voting is printed on the ballot in nanoseconds (no hour, minute, or second) so there are nine random digits cross-indexing your anonymous vote with an instant in time that is subject to influence by neither the voter nor the bureaucracy. This nanosecond tagging is like the control numbers printed on lottery tickets, as a cross-check for security purposes.
Outside the polling place you can go to any computer and google your precinct number. It’s right there on your ballot. Scroll to the part of the tally where your number is to be found, and you can read it with several votes on the same screen above and below your number. Anybody snoopy hacking into your computer or looking over your shoulder doesn’t know which vote on the scrolled listing you are reading off. But now you are in control, inspecting how your vote was counted, to see whether it was counted accurately. Now crooked machines, erroneous machines, crooked people, and incompetent people are all unable to steal your vote or change it. If you observe any discrepancies of any origin, now you can report the errors to the elections supervisors, or to the police or newspapers or prosecuting attorney, and get things fixed. That is exactly what we cannot do today, but we can tomorrow if we tune up the voting technology to modern quality control standards. You can compare notes with your friends, and if a bunch of you find your vote tallies are screwy you can band together and have the force of numbers behind you to change a crooked election into an honest election. With this method, anyone in a back office who wants to rig the voting computers can’t alter a single vote without the risk of being caught. ..more follows..
You can tally the entire precinct if you want to, and see if the newspaper reported out your precinct results accurately. People with computer skills can count the entire county or the entire state using their home computer, and make sure the publicly reported results are accurate. Anybody accustomed to stealing votes and warping elections in the past now has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Ordinary citizens can read data out of the system but not enter data into the vote tally data set, for control on hackers. If somehow hacking is achieved, ordinary citizens can catch it fast.
Some object that this way of doing things is too expensive. That is total hogwash, because voting machines currently in use retail for about $20,000. Some object that any voter holding a xerox copy off-site means you might show your ballot to someone else that can bribe or blackmail you according to how they want you to vote. More hogwash, because a third of voting is already done absentee, and absentee voters can already show their ballot to people trying to bribe or blackmail them.
This type of technology is already economically all over the map for machines that process credit cards, cash register data loggers and copiers onto paper receipts, lottery ticket issuers and readers, recording systems at grocery stores for whether you paid your utility bills there or not, and of course the data system any time you make a bank deposit and get a receipt for that. That’s billions of data trackings every day, and so doing a few million votes on election day once every two or four years is eminently even more practical and economical. It’s already done for every hamburger and every pack of chewing gum sold, and most people understand their votes are worth more than a ham sandwich. So the only people not wanting to have voters inspecting their own votes after being counted are the same people who want to continue having a free hand to steal votes and steal elections. Thanks to modern computers used to check up on other computers, and thanks to the paper copy xerox each voter gets safeguarded to his own personal secrecy, now with the appropriate security improvements from modern technology the vote stealers will have to dream up some other way to try to steal elections.
Notice anything missing from the story? Most polling places will need more than the hundred votes mentioned above, from 1 to 101. That’s why the software is written so once about 70 votes are used up, 70 more are added. The 70 figure is just an arbitrary number. So the numbers are predominantly in the under 100’s at first, then the 100’s, then 200’s, then 300’s etc. as the day wears on. At all times there is an allowable two or three dozen interstitial numbers allowed to be missing. But after dinner that number is choked down to smaller and smaller numbers of missing numbers. By the time of polling place closing, there are only as many numbers left in gap interstitial status as there are polling place workers. After closing, they hit a special button or turn a special key, and ballots are turned out with the missing numbers for the voting use of the end-of-day polling place workers. They are handed out upside down so nobody sees what anybody else has gotten, and secrecy is preserved to the end with no missing interstitial gap number ballots. Or if there are any despite precautions they are witnessed to have “cancelled” written on them in big bold letters and accounted for in standard side records and stored in a special envelope. In case of spoiled ballots, those have to be turned in with numbers showing and get recorded on a side sheet with voter signature and witness signature and time and any related accounting and verification data that is needed. Only then does the voter get a fresh ballot with a new number to try again.
What is to stop a voter from pushing the dispense button 5 times, getting 5 ballots, and voting 5 times? When you check in at the front desk and attest to being a legitimate voter who lives in the precinct, you (witnessed carefully) get to pick one magnetic stripe card, out of a fishbowl. They are all the same, and you can stir the fishbowl and pick whichever random magnetic strip card you want. Once you feed the magnetic stripe card to the ballot dispenser then and only then does it turn on. Once you have used the mouse to select a number and your anonymous ballot is dispensed, the ballot dispenser goes inactive until another magnetic stripe card is fed into it. The card gets you one ballot and one ballot only. The magnetic stripe cards, if desired, can have accounting serial numbers placed on them for numerical batch control. But nobody gets to see the number of the card you picked, and it is eaten by the machine and tossed into a random internal pile, so it is totally untraceable to you. If anyone wants to be totally paranoid the magnetic stripe cards can be run through a paper shredder inside the ballot dispenser to make chain of custody even more impossible to trace. Inside the card each one is identical as to magnetic blip characteristics and so they are further untraceable to individual voters. For extra security the magnetic stripe cards can be unique to this or that election, this or that county, or this or that polling place so that any theft of magnetic stripe cards will do the thieves little to no good. They can also be of different colors and have different visible printing specifying this or that county, this or that polling place. So you can look at a magnetic stripe card and make sure it is used in the right county or the right polling place, but nothing about the card tells you who will use it or who has used it.
This new way of inspecting votes, and putting individual We the People voters in charge for a change, does not diminish current voting methods. For instance, it leaves intact systems that already use electronic voting machines. It leaves intact systems that rely on hand counts of paper ballots, as the voter submits his original as a paper ballot that stays in the precinct's voting machine. The new proposal retains all the characteristics of previous established systems, but it also empowers the individual voter to anonymously track his own vote, to make sure it was counted and not stolen. Who would want to cheat the citizen of knowing the truth, and that the truth was counted as the truth?
Engagement? Can voters and candidates really engage the government when the ballot has been rendered pointless to discipline incumbents. Ballot access censorship makes voters helpless. It deprives them of alternative candidates to challenge the ruling oligarchy. Fiat ballots and fiat money make for the failure of authoritarian statism, aka, fascism. Can authentic elections recover authentic money?
The Chinese had no republican relics to recover. Americans do.
There is a way to prevent elections from being fraudulent. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Lack of civic engagement by the educated was on show during Covid. Dr. Scott Atlas describes in his book how Drs Birx and Fauci seemed to run the show without using the available science. Nobody dared to stop them.
Thank. This is really good and points to many ways we may overcome this tyranny. It is always weaknesses within which feed tyranny. And always our history which points to the ways back to freedom and liberty.
There is a way to cripple the ability of tyranny to steal elections. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Maybe true and thanks for the details. As presented this seems way beyond the skills of the average voter however. Maybe if it was refined? Right now our problem is those who own digital technology and the software - both to meet their own ends.
Actually, the technology is as easy as voting for numbers in the lottery. You feed in your vote (graphite bubbles on a piece of paper) and out comes your receipt. Either your lottery receipt, or a xerox copy of your vote in an election. The people who own digital technology and the software don't get the xerox, or any copy. Only you have the hard copy to prove how you voted. When you google your precinct and check to see how your vote was actually counted, it's all anonymous. If you find your vote was stolen or changed, your anonymous xerox gives you the power over them, to prove they stole your vote and to get them prosecuted. Your vote stays secret until and unless you want to show it, e.g. to prove the vote was stolen inside the computer system. My proposal uses computers to force computers to be honest, and the paper copy that only you hold is the definitive proof. You can join with friends who also had their votes stolen so you don't have to tackle the system all by yourself, as your friends have their xeroxes to prove their votes were stolen also. Now the technocrats can't steal votes and fake vote counts. Now We the People have proof in our hands, to inspect their tallying work and make sure they can no longer cheat anybody.
3pm Feb 27, 2023 -- I got a full post put up (I think) that is about 3 typed pages equivalent. Please let me know if it shows up on your end so I can have a clue whether I am doing the keystrokes correctly.
Penelope My four talks on "Money is no mystery " at Global Research and here cover the Federal reserve scam
This takes zero voter skills, like any untrained person can play the lottery. How do you do the lottery? Vote for numbers with graphite bubbles on the paper, and run it through the machine. Simple. That's all there is to it. Your lottery ticket shows how you voted for the numbers (instead of candidates). Your lottery receipt proves which numbers you voted for. So now the organizers can't steal your million dollars if you are the winner. For an election it's the same deal. Just vote for candidate A or candidate B with a graphite oval filled in for your choice. Same for all other candidate races and other ballot proposals. When you put your ballot in the voting machine, your receipt is your own xerox copy. It has a secret number that only you selected and only you know what it is. So even though every vote is anonymous public information, only you can personally identify your vote (on the results google search) and tie it to your ballot, using your own personal xerox copy. And only if you want to. If you want to expose vote fraud, now your xerox copy proves your vote was changed around or totally hijacked. If everything is OK, you can stay quiet and know your vote was counted correctly. You can also check with friends and find out whether their vote was stolen, and you can form groups of victims of vote theft if you catch it going on. So you don't have to challenge the system all by yourself when you catch vote stealers stealing a lot of votes.
Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
By organizing with others we can recover an honest count of the ballots. We need to count them publicly at each polling place & phone the tally to a newspaper which will publish the tally at each polling place so that we may assure ourselves that the total is correct.
It is not fiat money which is the problem, but money under the control of private interests. The Federal Reserve isn't Federal; it's private & hasn't even been audited-- ever. Our government pays INTEREST to the Federal Reserve to issue OUR currency: robbery!
Honest voting can be achieved by a simpler, faster, and more direct method. It's already being done with the accountability system used for every lottery ticket that is purchased. And the following doesn't depend on newspapers slowing things down or trying corrupt hijinks of their own. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Jackie, I'm sorry but this seems to rely on voters being sufficiently diligent to verify that their vote is correctly tabulated & surely everyone won't do that,. Further, as with all things computer, it's subject to hacking.
I still think that voting w/o computers w simple paper ballots counted at the polling place and in public is better. No hijinks are available to a newspaper which is simply publishing polling place totals. Everyone who witnessed the count & signed off on it can readily verify the vote tabulation.
We already know of countless examples of computerized voting fraud. Your suggestion is inventive, but I believe also open to fraud.
Today zero percent of the voters can check their vote. If only 10% do verify their vote, that prospect severely limits the chances for vote stealers being able to get away with anything. You are right that paper ballots is the ideal way to do things, sort of. But that's true only when you have real Democrats and real Republicans (or whatever) checking up on one another. But that is corruptible if I am a crooked local Party A boss and I have my friends infiltrate Party B. It appears the tabulations that go on until 3 a.m. are quality controlled, but if all the vote counters are actually under my greaseball party boss control from Party A then the tabulations will end up the way I want, the ballot boxes will be physically stuffed to be in agreement, and you will have zero percent chance to have a clue your vote was stolen when you thought you could get a good night's sleep.
I have a more detailed explanation I just put out on Substack, and you can peruse through that if you have time to see whether I have left anything out regarding your concerns when I present more details. As in less fraud is available than you likely imagine, and if any occurs the individual can catch it pronto, with no ambiguity relative to the voter who knows what he did. You also don't know how honest this or that journalist might be. But if you hear from several of your friends in your precinct and nearby precincts that their votes were stolen, and they hold xeroxes just like you do to prove they are telling the truth, and you can see with your own eyes on the computer screen that their votes like your xerox copy were falsely counted, then you know the truth and have a clue how bad the problem is according to the percentage of your friends who know their vote was stolen. And you can physically check up on every one of them and you can show your own tallied results reciprocally.
If the system is restructured, computerized voting fraud will become virtually to totally impossible. I will next try to append the longer version of the proposal I posted a few minutes ago so you don't have to wander around looking it up. Please criticize with any weaknesses you find, as I don't presume to have 100% of the answers. I just want to be able to check up on my vote, and ditto for my friends. If people are too lethargic to spend 3 minutes reviewing their vote a few hours after, how committed to anything are they in the first place? And, done electronically and verifiably, the results are faster and less error prone. My mother used to do the hand counting of ballots in our local precinct when I was a kid in the 1950's and 1960's. I remember what a grinding chore it was, and just like we no longer need accountants with green eyeshades toiling next to a Dickensian candle, we can be more merciful to our vote accountants by modernizing. It works fine for auditing the credit card system, the lottery system, banking, and millions of cash registers. They have managed to escape from the paperwork equivalent of the Stone Age just fine. So looking at the larger picture it is ridiculous for our voting system to still be stranded in the Dark Ages at best.
Here is Part One of the referenced longer version I posted on my Substack about an hour ago 2-27-2023. I should point out this new way of doing things does not preclude a paper ballot vote counting system just as you prefer. You can still do paper ballots out of the voting machine, counting them by hand just as you wish late into the night. My proposal additionally lets the individual verify his own individual vote, and if even a few people want to do it that is their right-- to verify the integrity (if any) of the system. If the manual vote counters are honest, they should have no objection to individual citizens checking up on their accuracy.
Part One===============
Today, any time you vote you have no clue whether your vote was counted at all. Or was changed and then counted in falsified form. If this is done to many other voters, an entire election can be stolen. But fortunately, with modern technology, this problem can be solved easily and economically. As a matter of fact, this type of data management is already being used in our everyday lives. So we have to wonder why computers are not already used to do quality control in elections— to make sure they are honest.
Now, what is the overlooked technology that can control vote stealing and force elections to be less subject to corrupt hijinks? The way it works is you go to your ordinary polling place and get checked in, same as usual. That step is subject to security problems of its own, like false identities and multiple votes cast by the same person on the same day. That part of voting fraud is a different kettle of fish and I am not addressing those issues here. But what I am proposing happens at the next step of the voting process.
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To wit: once you are checked in as a hopefully legitimate voter of a given precinct, you proceed to the ballot-issuing machine. On the screen are several dozen numbers and they are approximately like serial numbers. Some will be deliberately missing and put up on the screen later. That is so when you pull off a number early in the day, nobody can tell you picked, say, number 78. If you use the mouse to pick 78 and there are already at the start of the day half the numbers from 1 to 101 missing by design, then the second voter cannot tell which number you picked. And the third and fourth voters don’t really have a clue what possible numbers the handful of prior voters might have used. Such divination can’t be done because during the first several dozen votes, 50 numbers or so at a time are missing. But once say 30 people have voted, and guessing who previously used which number is impossible, then available ballot numbers to be picked from the screen no longer need to be held back.
So, that detail aside: You get checked in, you go to the ballot numbering screen and that is easy since it’s the only screen there is. You pick the number you want in secrecy so nobody can see your selection. When you hit “enter” the number vanishes from the screen and appears printed on your dispensed ballot, along with the ID for the state, county, and precinct which is uniform for everyone at the same polling place. Folders are available for you to hide the ballot inside. Nobody sees what number you selected from the screen and nobody sees your ballot. After you fill in the little bubbles on the ballot with graphite, you slide your ballot out of its privacy folder into the voting machine. Out comes your xerox copy, on counterfeit-proof paper. If desired, the time of voting is printed on the ballot in nanoseconds (no hour, minute, or second) so there are nine random digits cross-indexing your anonymous vote with an instant in time that is subject to influence by neither the voter nor the bureaucracy. This nanosecond tagging is like the control numbers printed on lottery tickets, as a cross-check for security purposes.
Outside the polling place you can go to any computer and google your precinct number. It’s right there on your ballot. Scroll to the part of the tally where your number is to be found, and you can read it with several votes on the same screen above and below your number. Anybody snoopy hacking into your computer or looking over your shoulder doesn’t know which vote on the scrolled listing you are reading off. But now you are in control, inspecting how your vote was counted, to see whether it was counted accurately. Now crooked machines, erroneous machines, crooked people, and incompetent people are all unable to steal your vote or change it. If you observe any discrepancies of any origin, now you can report the errors to the elections supervisors, or to the police or newspapers or prosecuting attorney, and get things fixed. That is exactly what we cannot do today, but we can tomorrow if we tune up the voting technology to modern quality control standards. You can compare notes with your friends, and if a bunch of you find your vote tallies are screwy you can band together and have the force of numbers behind you to change a crooked election into an honest election. With this method, anyone in a back office who wants to rig the voting computers can’t alter a single vote without the risk of being caught. ..more follows..
PART TWO 2-27-2023 ==============
You can tally the entire precinct if you want to, and see if the newspaper reported out your precinct results accurately. People with computer skills can count the entire county or the entire state using their home computer, and make sure the publicly reported results are accurate. Anybody accustomed to stealing votes and warping elections in the past now has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Ordinary citizens can read data out of the system but not enter data into the vote tally data set, for control on hackers. If somehow hacking is achieved, ordinary citizens can catch it fast.
Some object that this way of doing things is too expensive. That is total hogwash, because voting machines currently in use retail for about $20,000. Some object that any voter holding a xerox copy off-site means you might show your ballot to someone else that can bribe or blackmail you according to how they want you to vote. More hogwash, because a third of voting is already done absentee, and absentee voters can already show their ballot to people trying to bribe or blackmail them.
This type of technology is already economically all over the map for machines that process credit cards, cash register data loggers and copiers onto paper receipts, lottery ticket issuers and readers, recording systems at grocery stores for whether you paid your utility bills there or not, and of course the data system any time you make a bank deposit and get a receipt for that. That’s billions of data trackings every day, and so doing a few million votes on election day once every two or four years is eminently even more practical and economical. It’s already done for every hamburger and every pack of chewing gum sold, and most people understand their votes are worth more than a ham sandwich. So the only people not wanting to have voters inspecting their own votes after being counted are the same people who want to continue having a free hand to steal votes and steal elections. Thanks to modern computers used to check up on other computers, and thanks to the paper copy xerox each voter gets safeguarded to his own personal secrecy, now with the appropriate security improvements from modern technology the vote stealers will have to dream up some other way to try to steal elections.
Notice anything missing from the story? Most polling places will need more than the hundred votes mentioned above, from 1 to 101. That’s why the software is written so once about 70 votes are used up, 70 more are added. The 70 figure is just an arbitrary number. So the numbers are predominantly in the under 100’s at first, then the 100’s, then 200’s, then 300’s etc. as the day wears on. At all times there is an allowable two or three dozen interstitial numbers allowed to be missing. But after dinner that number is choked down to smaller and smaller numbers of missing numbers. By the time of polling place closing, there are only as many numbers left in gap interstitial status as there are polling place workers. After closing, they hit a special button or turn a special key, and ballots are turned out with the missing numbers for the voting use of the end-of-day polling place workers. They are handed out upside down so nobody sees what anybody else has gotten, and secrecy is preserved to the end with no missing interstitial gap number ballots. Or if there are any despite precautions they are witnessed to have “cancelled” written on them in big bold letters and accounted for in standard side records and stored in a special envelope. In case of spoiled ballots, those have to be turned in with numbers showing and get recorded on a side sheet with voter signature and witness signature and time and any related accounting and verification data that is needed. Only then does the voter get a fresh ballot with a new number to try again.
What is to stop a voter from pushing the dispense button 5 times, getting 5 ballots, and voting 5 times? When you check in at the front desk and attest to being a legitimate voter who lives in the precinct, you (witnessed carefully) get to pick one magnetic stripe card, out of a fishbowl. They are all the same, and you can stir the fishbowl and pick whichever random magnetic strip card you want. Once you feed the magnetic stripe card to the ballot dispenser then and only then does it turn on. Once you have used the mouse to select a number and your anonymous ballot is dispensed, the ballot dispenser goes inactive until another magnetic stripe card is fed into it. The card gets you one ballot and one ballot only. The magnetic stripe cards, if desired, can have accounting serial numbers placed on them for numerical batch control. But nobody gets to see the number of the card you picked, and it is eaten by the machine and tossed into a random internal pile, so it is totally untraceable to you. If anyone wants to be totally paranoid the magnetic stripe cards can be run through a paper shredder inside the ballot dispenser to make chain of custody even more impossible to trace. Inside the card each one is identical as to magnetic blip characteristics and so they are further untraceable to individual voters. For extra security the magnetic stripe cards can be unique to this or that election, this or that county, or this or that polling place so that any theft of magnetic stripe cards will do the thieves little to no good. They can also be of different colors and have different visible printing specifying this or that county, this or that polling place. So you can look at a magnetic stripe card and make sure it is used in the right county or the right polling place, but nothing about the card tells you who will use it or who has used it.
This new way of inspecting votes, and putting individual We the People voters in charge for a change, does not diminish current voting methods. For instance, it leaves intact systems that already use electronic voting machines. It leaves intact systems that rely on hand counts of paper ballots, as the voter submits his original as a paper ballot that stays in the precinct's voting machine. The new proposal retains all the characteristics of previous established systems, but it also empowers the individual voter to anonymously track his own vote, to make sure it was counted and not stolen. Who would want to cheat the citizen of knowing the truth, and that the truth was counted as the truth?
Engagement? Can voters and candidates really engage the government when the ballot has been rendered pointless to discipline incumbents. Ballot access censorship makes voters helpless. It deprives them of alternative candidates to challenge the ruling oligarchy. Fiat ballots and fiat money make for the failure of authoritarian statism, aka, fascism. Can authentic elections recover authentic money?
The Chinese had no republican relics to recover. Americans do.
There is a way to prevent elections from being fraudulent. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Lack of civic engagement by the educated was on show during Covid. Dr. Scott Atlas describes in his book how Drs Birx and Fauci seemed to run the show without using the available science. Nobody dared to stop them.
Thank. This is really good and points to many ways we may overcome this tyranny. It is always weaknesses within which feed tyranny. And always our history which points to the ways back to freedom and liberty.
There is a way to cripple the ability of tyranny to steal elections. Using modern technology, there is an easy way to force government to be more responsible, honest, and accountable. When you vote, you go to a computer screen and privately select a number of your choice from the screen. It disappears from the screen and is printed anonymously and untraceably onto your ballot. When you put your vote into the voting machine, you get your xerox copy. Now you can go to any computer and google your precinct to see how all the votes were counted. When you scroll to your number, even a person snooping over your shoulder doesn't know which tabulated vote record you are examining as yours. Now no one can steal your vote without being caught. This makes the system a servant of the people, and the people don't have to be held in ignorance as we are today as to whether our votes were even counted. We get a receipt if we deposit money in the bank. That forces accuracy and the truth to be observed. We get a receipt if we vote for selected numbers in the lottery. Now nobody can steal your million dollars if you win. But the people who want votes to remain untraceable are the people who want to keep stealing votes and stealing elections and eroding all our rights.
Maybe true and thanks for the details. As presented this seems way beyond the skills of the average voter however. Maybe if it was refined? Right now our problem is those who own digital technology and the software - both to meet their own ends.
Actually, the technology is as easy as voting for numbers in the lottery. You feed in your vote (graphite bubbles on a piece of paper) and out comes your receipt. Either your lottery receipt, or a xerox copy of your vote in an election. The people who own digital technology and the software don't get the xerox, or any copy. Only you have the hard copy to prove how you voted. When you google your precinct and check to see how your vote was actually counted, it's all anonymous. If you find your vote was stolen or changed, your anonymous xerox gives you the power over them, to prove they stole your vote and to get them prosecuted. Your vote stays secret until and unless you want to show it, e.g. to prove the vote was stolen inside the computer system. My proposal uses computers to force computers to be honest, and the paper copy that only you hold is the definitive proof. You can join with friends who also had their votes stolen so you don't have to tackle the system all by yourself, as your friends have their xeroxes to prove their votes were stolen also. Now the technocrats can't steal votes and fake vote counts. Now We the People have proof in our hands, to inspect their tallying work and make sure they can no longer cheat anybody.
Sounds like a plan. Can you publish a post with this information?
I haven't activated my Substack. I guess that is what you are talking about so I'll give it a try. Please let me know if you meant something else.
No that is what I meant. I look forward to your posts. I just started about a year ago.
3pm Feb 27, 2023 -- I got a full post put up (I think) that is about 3 typed pages equivalent. Please let me know if it shows up on your end so I can have a clue whether I am doing the keystrokes correctly.
Nothing yet. There have been internet issues today. Email SubStack if problems continue.