If you live in a state that uses electronic voting machines, you may want to lobby your local representatives to switch to paper ballots ASAP!
Politics
Yes, here we go again. With the all-important 2020 presidential election just over a year away, electronic voting machines are already posing a problem. In fact, a machine in Mississippi was recently caught on camera changing a vote with the voter still present, while a judge in Georgia even went so far as to mandate that the state switch to paper-only ballots in 2020.
Take a look at the video footage below of a voting machine automatically changing a vote during the recent Mississippi governor contest.
Over and over again, the man touched a box on an electronic voting machine to cast his ballot for Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Bill Waller Jr. — yet over and oer again, the machine checked off a vote for Waller’s GOP opponent, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
“How would that happen?” a woman exclaimed in the background.
“It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for,” the man said.
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Buddy of mine trying to vote for Bill Waller and the machine continued to default back to Tate Reeves. He is not the only one having this issue.
Makes you wonder. But PSA also make sure your vote is really for who you want it to be for. #MSElex #MSLeg pic.twitter.com/Kyylyec0MC
— Taylor Rayburn (@STaylorRayburn) August 27, 2019
Regrettably, the phony voting machine problem is not only limited to Mississippi. In fact, a federal judge issued a 153-page ruling ordering Georgia state officials to stop using its outdated electronic voting machines by the end of the year.
As a compromise, the judge accepted the state’s argument that it would be too disruptive to switch to paper ballots for municipal elections being held in November of 2019. However, she flatly refused to extend that logic into 2020 and ruled that the state had plenty of time to phase out its outdated touchscreen machines before the presidential contest.
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After coming up short in her bid to become Georgia’s first black and first female governor, Stacey Abrams rebuffed calls to run for the presidency and instead dedicated her time to voter protection.
“We’re going to have a fair fight in 2020 because my mission is to make certain that no one has to go through in 2020 what we went through in 2018,” Abrams said of her new initiative, Fair Fight 2020.
She added that she thought she could best serve her party by “making sure every eligible American who should cast a vote will be able to.”
With problems already involving voting machines in Georgia, Mississippi, and other states still unknown (always in favor of the GOP, of course), it appears as if the work of Ms. Abrams is right on time.
After coming up short in her bid to become Georgia’s first black and first female governor, Stacey Abrams rebuffed calls to run for the presidency and instead dedicated her time to voter protection. She added that she thought she could best serve her party by “making sure every eligible American who should cast a vote will be able to.” […] -DJ
THIS is just one example of why I feel confident that when the time (the year) is right Stacey will be a great candidate for president. She puts country First.
Many, if not most, of Our voting machines around the country are antiquated and defective. I don’t trust them at all. DJ’s post prompts me to check and see if my state is pursuing the switch to paper-ballots.