Re:A used voting machine from the 2016 election
by lcampbell on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:22AM
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This sounded interesting and I had trouble looking up the details. For others, the Voter Action site is available on archive.org[1] and from there the court deposition for the Lopategui v. Vigil-Giron case and several other documents are available.
Searching for the aforementioned case turned up another case wherein Vigil-Giron (the NM secretary of state at the time?) and several others were indited for additional shenanigans[2].
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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140831100709/http://voteractio...
[2] https://www.abqjournal.com/14230/updated-ex-secretary-of-sta...
Re:A used voting machine from the 2016 election
by specialist on Saturday July 21, 2018 @05:03AM
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Thanks.
Wow, I didn’t know about [2]. Unbelievable. But not surprising I guess. I was friends with the Voter Action people. Their inside baseball version of the story was depressing.
Among many other problems, their touchscreen voting machines didn't count spanish language ballots.
Part of the settlement was NM had to junk all their new machines and go back to opscans.
Given the circumstantial evidence and coverups, it's entirely reasonable to assume that election integrity problems were widespread. But we'll never know, because the evidence was destroyed, often illegally (eg despite federal injunctions).
As for why non-Republicans don't talk about this: Because it's a trap. Priming the public with the idea makes it easier for someone else to come along and seize the initiative, despite any reality. And few non-Republicans know how to wield the bully pulpit.