April 2, 2025
Ginny Garner wrote:
Lew,
Political activist and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell continues to organize Americans to lobby state election board personnel to get rid of electronic voting machines. Problems with these machines have been known since at least 1988 when the New Yorker magazine published the article “Counting Votes” by Ronnie Dugger and Roy Saltman released his report “Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying.” James and Kenneth Collier’s 1992 book “Votescam: The Stealing of America” provided many more facts on the topic.
From Lindell:
“In their report, ‘We do not trust voting computers’ showed how the system
worked, what software they had created for it and gave details on how one
could get complete and undetected control of the election results if one had
access to the devices before the elections, even for a brief period. The
report also showed that radio emanations for the systems could be received
at a several meter distance giving the possibility to find out how people
voted. when we had the evidence to melt those machines down!
The next elections in the Netherlands will use paper ballots and red pencil,
a method that provides transparency and that is now used in several
countries of Europe and in the US where a paper copy of each vote is
required. In Ireland, the use of the voting machines is stopped due to
serious questions regarding their security and the UK election council
intends stopping all electronic voting pilot projects that had been carried
on during the last years. In Germany doubts have arisen regarding their use
as well. In France, serious problems occurred during the pilot electronic
voting in spring election, the system having been considered a disaster. A
petition for the preservation of the paper voting was issued on that
occasion.”
This was 2007. Instead of our country listening to the known problems with machine voting from other countries who were documenting and reporting these problems, our states began to buy up machines as fast as possible! Then we are told machines are the best, the safest and will deliver “gold standard elections”. That could not be further from the truth!
The Netherlands had only used the machines for 10 years at that time and made the decision to go back to paper ballot elections and a red pencil to count. It’s that simple.
We have over complicated a process that wasn’t meant to be so messy and confusing! The simplicity of casting your paper ballot, having your ballot counted and then tallied manually by a person is the least expensive, and most honest path forward.
We have one year until the mid-term elections begin. We need your support more now than ever! We continue to fight for our vote to count and the end of electronic voting machines until we secure our election platforms!
