OCU,
A few years ago, I went into town with my wife to cast absentee ballots since we were heading to NH for the week. I voted electronically. It was the first time I'd done so.
After I voted, my wife voted.
We headed out, and I commented to her on the new machine and how surprised I was that the only thing to vote on was the state senator.
She said, "What? There were three pages of bond initiatives."
I was floored. I turned around and went back in. The people at the polling station confirmed that there were numerous issues being decided.
I told them that only one item had appeared for me, and asked if anyone else had said the same thing.
They said no.
I asked if the machine had an audit trail they could check.
Again, they said no.
And THAT may be what "voter fraud" looks like in America today.
The machine received my one vote, and because I'd voted conservatively, it didn't bring up any of the other questions.
No audit trail. No receipt. Utterly unprovable by me.
It didn't happen to my wife, so the machine had obviously been programmed to only SOMETIMES behave as it did. That's smart. It usually only takes a few percent to swing bills one direction instead of the other. And this is how it's done.
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