On January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court requested the Texas Democratic Party to file a response in Dallas County v Texas Democratic Party, 10-755. This tends to show that the Court is somewhat interested in the case, and is thinking about accepting it. The issue is whether Dallas County was required to ask for approval from the Voting Rights Section of the U.S. Justice Department when it purchased a different kind of vote-counting machine. The Democratic Party did not like the new machine because it seemed to increase the odds that voters would leave the polling place, thinking they had voted in all partisan races, and yet actually having voted in only a single partisan race.
The lower court had ruled that the voting machine change did require approval from the Voting Rights Section.
Do NOT be surprised if ALL 9 of the SCOTUS folks totally HAMMER the party hack robot MORONS in Texas — to ABSOLUTELY require each LEGAL vote to be counted.
How EVIL MORON stupid are TX govt regime folks — one more southern State having way too many constitutional law absolute total MORONS ???
Will it take Civil WAR II to bring REAL Democracy into the southern States ???
The SCOTUS folks have been brain dead mystified about 14th Amdt, Sec. 2 versus 15th Amdt, Sec. 1 for a mere 140 years.
Perhaps this case will end the mess ???
Dallas did get preclearance from the USDOJ when it purchased the iVotronic voting machines. It actually did this twice – once when it adopted the machines for early voting; and again when it adopted them for precinct voting. It also was not switching from a different kind of voting machine, it was either switching from punch cards or paper ballots.
What the issue is whether Dallas changed the procedure for counting straight ticket votes in conjunction with individual candidates.
The Democratic Party contends that punching the screen twice with a finger is the same as making two X’s on a sheet of paper. And that those two finger presses are not being counted the same as the two pencil markets. In effect, it is arguing it would as if the voter dipped his finger in strawberry jam and then touched the screen in two locations then unscrewed the glass screen and deposited that in the ballot box, it would be counted the same a paper ballot where a pencil was used.
Dallas County and the State of Texas argue that the voting machine provides a computer interface for marking the ballot. In particular, it highlights candidates that were implicitly selected by straight ticket vote, as well as races in which the straight ticket vote had no effect.
If a voter were using a paper ballot, he would have no security that corrupt election judges would not vote in races which the voter had skipped with an expectation that the straight ticket vote would be honored. The user interface automatically marks those races.
The voting machine also provides a mechanism by which a voter may abstain from a race, even if he has voted a straight ticket. On a paper ballot, a voter would have to make extra marks and hope that election officials correctly interpreted them. The voting machines provide a mechanism for doing so – and if they did not there would be no way for a voter to actively abstain from a race, because the voting machine can not record extra marks.
When a voter uses the voting machine to indicate that he wants to vote a straight ticket, but does not vote in a particular race, then the vote is counted exactly the same way it would be if it were on a paper ballot – other than it would be difficult to make that choice clear.
If a voter were using a paper ballot, he would have no security that corrupt election judges would not vote in races which the voter had skipped with an expectation that the straight ticket vote would be honored. The user interface automatically marks those races.
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NO poll watchers in TX Stone Age regime watching the votes being counted ???
How many scanner ballots have FELONY marking of them by corrupt election judges in any State ???
Back to the past — black and white stones for voting as in ancient Greece ???
Check for really stuffed ballot boxes with those extra FELONY stones ???
How many totally rigged DRE machines — vote for A on screen = vote for Z internally ??? — or just X percent of the votes in *close* elections.
#3 You’d be surprised. A while back when punch cards were used, someone who was supposed to be looking for hanging chads, was looking for unpunched races, and punching those.
# 4 So how many centuries was the FELON put in jail ???
— or perhaps even promoted by the party hacks in the regime ???
Any punch card systems NOT in junk yards or museums ???