Grand Theft Automated Voting?

Courtesy of Nattering Naybob.

More Nattering on November 15th’s Voting Machine Manipulation? and November 23rd’s I VOTED??….

Considering President elect Donald Trump’s margin of victory in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan was all of 107K votes….

and we know one of the AVM models used in Wisconsin has a proven track record of swallowing, like a black hole, 100K votes in a single county. So the following might just be Natter worthy.

In Voting Machine Manipulation? we pointed to various scholarly studies and scientific evidence proving that automated voting technology is antiquated, can easily be hacked and in fact, has a history of being manipulated.

In fact, Wisconsin, Ohio and Kansas were subject to Nattering scrutiny in a 2014 Royal Statistical Society study…

“These statistics show that patterns exist in the data that correlate the type of electronic voting system in use with the %R vote changing with the total votes cast.

Such patterns are examples of what we might expect to see if some voting systems were being sabotaged, but that doesn’t mean that no other explanations are possible for these patterns. Voting machine manipulation is, in my opinion, the most likely explanation for these patterns.“

More importantly, regarding ESS IVotronic systems used extensively in Wisconsin we cited our resource and Nattered….

The ESS system can be a black hole to the tune of over 100K votes in just a single county. With 100% of precincts reporting, Trump wins Wisconsin by 27K votes. What about Pennsylvania and other states which were close?

Considering Clinton won the popular vote, but was lacking in key precincts, in key states, where the above machines are extensively utilized, somebody in the Clinton campaign might want to have a closer look?

Was this idle or prescient Natter? We think the latter, as it appears Jill Stein’s campaign is taking a Nattering eye to the results:

On Wednesday she [Stein] announced she would demand recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In just three days, Stein has raised over $5 million to cover the expenses. But that doesn’t guarantee anything….

“We cannot guarantee a recount will happen in any of these states we are targeting. We can only pledge we will demand recounts in those states.”

Needless to say, President elect Donald Trump is unhappy and engaging in some Mad Nattering… the decision is a “scam” and “nothing would change,” claiming…

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Erik Elias Nattered:

“Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.”

It appears somebody may have woke up and smelled something other than Mrs. Olson’s coffee. With the stench of 2000’s SCOTUS election recount ruling still wafting about, what can one say?

Holy Recount Batman? Better late than never? or Better to have Nattered once, than never at all? Tune in next week, same Nattering time, same Nattering channel.