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April 16, 2018In Episode 40 of Plan V-TV, we talk with Vermonters for Voting Integrity co-founder Jim Hogue, independent journalist Renee Carpenter, and voting rights activist and CODE: RED author Jonathan Simon about computerized voting, rampant US electoral fraud, and the “integrity” of Vermont citizens’ votes – are our ballots being fairly and accurately counted, and what steps can Vermonters take to ensure voting integrity moving forward?
When I vote as a Vermont citizen in local, state and national elections, I walk into my town of Waitsfield’s elementary school gym, check in with a voting volunteer, cast my votes in a private booth with a pen and paper ballot, and place my completed ballot in a locked box, which is opened at the end of the voting day by our town clerk, who counts the votes in full public view with elected members of our town board of civil authority. Here’s a helpful video of what the process looks like.
And VTDigger journalist Elizabeth Hewitt provides an update on Vermont voting here – some helpful context, though “revelations that 21 states’ systems were targeted by Russian hackers in the 2016 election” seem a lot less relevant than the massive computerized election fraud that has been perpetrated on most US voters in most states since 2000.
What is most worrisome? The US Department of Homeland Security using unproven “#RussiaGate – Russia Hacked The 2016 Election” propaganda to commandeer our Vermont electoral process in the name of “national security.”
The best solution to so-called “cybersecurity concerns” regarding computerized voting is glaringly obvious.
Paper ballots, hand counted, in full public view.
This is what voting should look like – in EVERY town and city in Vermont.
A worthy goal. Let’s get busy.
Bless our 2nd Vermont Republic!
