To prove a point
To prove a point, I’m going back to my example at
the Oakland teach-in of me personally serving as the only person to fill out
ballots and to count ballots, just like touch screen DREs.
Conclusions: So long as I (a human being or a touch
screen machine) fill out the ballot for you, I win. All of your mandatory recount and paper ballot efforts only
serve to shave down the maximum amount by which I can cheat, but don’t even
come close to eliminating it. It’s not
in who has the right to vote, or even who COUNTS the votes (if the counting is
honest), but in WHO FILLS OUT THE BALLOTS.
Explanation: Even if a paper record trail is created and
the voter prompted to inspect it, this is functionally no different than the
“summary” screen the touch screen voter is asked to review before casting an
electronic ballot. Numerous witnesses
caught problems with this summary screen, but almost all of them expressed a
concern that others would not catch it since they barely caught it themselves.
And indeed my Snohomish County data proves that many voters did not catch the
“mistakes” or else that the votes were changed at some point.
OK
so going back to the example of PAUL LEHTO AS SOLE VOTE REGISTRAR AND SOLE VOTE
COUNTER (just like touch screens): Even *WITH* a paper record ballot
*and*
a check of few percent of precincts, I can still easily throw elections.
How
do I still throw elections??
Here’s
just one simple example.
Recall
that I am still filling out your ballot for you. I fill it out 90% correctly.
Some of you catch the error and I say “oops, sorry for the glitch” and
you get a new one, but others of you don’t catch it because not everybody has
time or is a perfect proofreader, etc.
But
now, thanks to the paper record/ballot, I have a superficially VERY STRONG
ARGUMENT that this is a clean voting process, when in fact I can still easily shave
a few percent for my favorite candidates, and just say “glitch” or
“knuckle-dragging dumb voters who can’t work a touch screen properly” in those few
instances when my “mistakes” are caught.
Therefore, you will never succeed in arguing that I’ve gamed the system
because EVERY SINGLE VOTER HAS *APPROVED* this process.
So
long as I fill out the ballot, I win.
All of your efforts only serve to shave down the maximum amount by which
I can cheat.
Paul
R. Lehto, Attorney at Law