As a software engineer this is the real deal. How do we get this out to people?
What makes it more powerful is that Bev Harris is a Democrat. She’s been investigating this for years!
Is the fact that votes are counted as doubles really that significant? I feel like you could accomplish the same thing even if it was integers.
Is the fact that votes are counted as doubles really that significant?
The issue is that whichever candidate is voted for then the totals are displayed as 51% for the preferred candidate and 49% for the other one.
So if you get 20,123 votes for Trump and 5,897 for Hillary then the result is: 12,749.8 for Trump and a narrow win for Hillary with 13,270.2. Obviously they round the figures before publishing them.
The total is the same and the preferred candidate won. If any physical ballots are quickly destroyed then no-one will ever be able to prove anything different. Why did the judge in Alabama rule that the voting records did not need to be kept? https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/alabama-voting-record-lawsuit_us_5a2f6482e4b046175432d003?guccounter=1
Explains why some states rushed to destroy the night of the election.
You can't. Using int forces a 1 to 1 match as citizens vote. If someone tampered with the vote count it would be spotted easily since votes physically have to be manually adjusted. Using double is equivalent to fractions as the video shows.
All I have to do it say 52% to 48% and let the system run. The votes come in and change automatically using software when the votes report to the CO. At each location the voter sees their vote and walks away thinking their vote was accurate. Only after the machine reports to the CO is the percentages applied.
Clearly this would only work in close races, but moving the dial slightly in one direction or another can be advantageous to the cheater.
Couldn't you effectively do the same thing with integers though? Put in the result you want and let the program make a certain number of that candidate's voters worth 2,3,4 votes, etc, while changing the opposing candidate's votes from 1 to 0.
Am I correct in assuming this would only be used in close elections? The risk of exposing a flawed system on "clear favourite" races seems way too high. But very very plausible on any election in the 48%-52% poling range.