Some Dare Call It Conspiracy. I Dare Call It A Dumb Theory.
How can you tell a Democrat has lost an election?
By the cries of “Fraud! Fraud!”.
Here’s his damning piece of evidence to suggest that the special runoff election in California’s 50th Congressional district was stolen.
Well, guess what? Poll workers in San Diego County had much more than just “a few seconds of physical access to the machines” when they stored the voting machines at their own homes on the night prior to yesterday’s election!
You read that correctly. The most vulnerable voting machines ever created and used in an American election were given to random, volunteer poll workers in San Diego to keep in their houses overnight to do with as they please. The systems were “guarded” by little more than a thin strip of plastic “tamper tape” over some, but not all, of each machines’ dozens of vulnerable physical access points.
A spokesperson this morning from the San Diego Registrar of Voters office confirmed to The BRAD BLOG that “Yes, the machines were sent home with poll workers the night before the election.”
STOLEN!!!!
I don’t know if any of you have ever seen what Brad here describes as “little more than a thin strip of plastic ‘tamper tape’” but I have. I’ve been an election judge in my county for the past two elections and I’ll tell you something right now. If San Diego Conuty uses tape that’s anything lik the tape we use, there is no way in the world that someone is going to remove that tape, tamper with the machine, and replace the tape without it being very noticeable.
I’ve had to take that tape off of machines on Election Day morning and it’s no picnic. I carry a pocketknife with me that day so I can cut the tape off instead of spending minutes trying to peel it off. Forget removing that tape with any hope of getting it resecured in a way that wouldn’t be noticeable even to Stevie Wonder.
And guess what? Any machine that shows signs of tampering gets pulled aside immediately and the Board of Elections gets an immediate telephone call. It would be beyond stupid for anyone who took a machine home ot try to tamper with it, since their tampering would be easily noticed and there’s be no question who did the tampering (something which carries a penalty of jail time where I live. I suspect California is the same).
The only way to accept Brad’s STOLEN ELECTION “evidence” as valid is to assume that every single election worker was on the same ideological side, decided to completely ignore the law (making themselves liable for criminal penalties also), and used the rigged machine.
In more than one polling place.
For an election that would fill the vacant seat for only seven months. The real election, for the full Congressional term happens in November and involves the same two people.
Brad wants you to believe that there’s a vast conspiracy among San Diego County poll workers to risk jail time and cheat in an election where the winner only gets a seven-month term and won’t get to do a darned thing in those months because they’ll be too busy campaigning for the real election in November.
Yeah. Sure. Pull the other one. It has bells on.
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Category: Moonbat Nonsense, Political Pontifications
The Brad Blog is really fishing for fraud here. I spent five years as an engineer designing an electronic voting machine, so I know a little about how to hack into them. Brad is right that the Diebold machines are insecure and, yes, that little piece of tape can be easily removed (more later), but it is doubtful that there was any real fraud in this election. The 50th district is a rock solid Republican District and the Democrats will NEVER win there. They didn't really even have to hold an election. If the Republicans ran Charles Manson and the Democrats ran Jesus Christ, Charles Manson would win that district. This ain't Ohio. So how do you remove tamper tape? Easy, you use a solvent to dissolve the adhesive and then you apply a new adhesive to the tape before you reapply it (or buy new tape). Adhesives vary, but usually Acetone, Methylene Chloride, or Methyl Ethyl Ketone will do the trick in less then 20 minutes. There may be a little damge to the underlying material, but that can be easily corrected with paint. Think someone will notice? Think about how good a paint shop can make your car look after an accident. Believe me, nobody will ever notice. With fast dying paints and a hair dryer, the paint job could be completed in about an hour. This is why we didn't use adhesives for tamper protection for our voting machine. We also didn't put the operating system on the machine until 15 minutes before the election and only the election supervisor was alowed to do that. You can't hack a dummy machine was our philosophy. The problem with Diebold is that they don't understand the concept of data security. They didn't have to think about data security for their ATM machines because banking errors happen all the time. If there is an error on your account, they will just correct it in a few weeks. And they can because there is already so much error checking at the Federal Reserve level that they don't need to do it at the ATM. You can't do that with elections, because the information is contained in only one place. In a banking transaction, there are always two banks involved and, therefore, two seperate sets of information. So, Brad is right to say that it would be possible to affect the election results. But, in this district, there would only be fraud if a Democrat won.
But Tom, in order for fraud to have affected the election in the way that Brad would have us believe, far more than one machine would have to be tampered with. If, as he suggests, the fraud was confined to the one county where workers took the machines home (and remember, election workers aren't a squadron of McGyvers), nearly every one of those machine would have to have been affected for it to have the desired effect.
He's on a long, long fishing trip there and he doesn't have much bait.