The video is a House Judiciary Hearing from 13 December 2004. You only have to watch the first two minutes of the video to get the gist of it.
You can find out lots more at: The Forbes Group – Walker & Ryan Colluded to Steal Wisconsin Primary Via Rigged Machines.
From the site:
April 3, 2016 – The Forbes Group has learned from an insider source that Wisconsin Political leaders Governor Scott Walker and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, have joined forces to derail GOP front-runner Donald Trump by using their vast influence in their vast influence in there home state ahead of the April 5th primary.
The source revealed that a plan is to manipulate the electronic voting machines through a undetectable, self-erasing software program that will switch a pre-designated percentage of the votes, after the votes have been cast, from trump to Cruz.
Based on post election polling data and a mathematical analysis of voting percentages, it is likely that that this same election fraud tactic occurred in Iowa, Ohio and Texas, states that the GOP leaders could justify wins by their preferred candidates because of either their home state advantage or false pre-election polls.
Shortly after learning of the suspected election-fixing in Iowa, where TFG learned that tallying software had mysteriously donated to the GOP by Microsoft–a staunch Marco Rubio supporter and second largest donor. Mr. Gary Forbes, CEO of the Forbes Group, had called for a federal investigation of Microsoft, its founder Bill gates and then candidate Marco Rubio. Forbes also asked for an immediate and permanent nationwide ban of all electronic voting machines.
I have looked around and can’t verify that the above was actually from The Forbes Group (TFG). However, there have been at least a few reports in Wisconsin of votes being switched. A few votes? A lot of votes?
All we can tell for sure is that Trump was drawing huge crowds and Cruz was drawing lesser crowds. Would that show up in the voting? Are Cruz supporters non-demostrative and Trump fans mostly interested in the “Trump show”? At this point there is no way to tell.
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why don’t democrat leaders complain? they say it would discourage people from voting if they thought their votes were not counted, so they have to let republicans get away with it. even trump found out the hard way in wisconsin about vote flipping.
Crowd size doesn’t mean that much. I remember in 1984 that Mondale was drawing *huge* crowds towards the end of his campaign.
The site might become a little easier to read if some of the stream-of-consciousness Trump posts were combined into 1-2 larger posts per day.
Trump fans don’t wanna admit he just plain lost.
(I’d expect “some” switched votes on cheap touch-screens because nobody can be arsed to calibrate them, and they’ll read off by a quarter inch*.
And I support paper ballots for general tracking reasons – but I don’t believe a Massive Vote Stealing Conspiracy here.
* I work with POS systems and touchscreens. Those sorts of systems aren’t precision Apple-grade multi-touch systems; they’re usually cheap resistive stuff with little accuracy more than “about where you poked it”.
“A few reports of vote switching” is far, far more likely to be “touched one button near another and it was miscalibrated” than “the sneaky software barons stole it from Trump!”.)
I’m not butt hurt that Trump lost Wisconsin.
However we do have the Congressional report that cheating can fix elections.
Voting machines/counting machines need to be open source so that they can be researched for backdoors.
And there needs to be a paper trail so that disputes can be resolved post facto. Touch screen voting should be outlawed.
Transparency.
Sure software can rig elections. Twenty years ago a coworker went off and formed his own electronic voting system company in Boulder. As I recall the company was a success but he frequently got inquiries from oversees looking to buy the software but only if he provided a back door to tweak the results.
But that’s not how Trump lost WI. Ed Morrissey has the best explanation I’ve read so far:
Stealing elections is a fine old American tradition. Boston was still using the old mechanical voting booths when I lived there. Tried to vote Republican one year and the little levers for the candidates just wouldn’t move. All the others worked just fine. I’m sure that was just a coincidence. With Billy Bulger’s goons lining the sidewalk outside I decided to discretely hoof it out of the poling place.
One of my grandfathers used to pick up a few extra bucks on election day by throwing ballot boxes into the East River.
Also, look up LBJ’s early career.
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