To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Stop Computerized Voting
Make it illegal for any State to put our public voting process on computers. Establish lists of public vote counters in each precinct to determine the final vote count that is then sent to the State Secretary of State's office, where another group of vote counters accumulates the final State tally.
Why is this important?
As a former mainframe programmer, I was acutely aware of how easy it would be to insert a few lines of code into computer software to manipulate the output, so was vehemently against putting our voting process onto computers. Now multiple reports have surfaced that speak to this very issue regarding the computer software that gathers and reports voting outcomes. Why do exit polls, formerly notoriously accurate, now seldom if ever match the "final" vote tallies? A reported 6.7% discrepancy between exit polls and the "final" vote was reported in the 2004 Ohio election. Moreover, some of our election software is now owned by foreign entities, who have proprietary rights, keeping it "secret" from the very people using it. Who do we suppose will pay those people to ensure certain candidates' victories?