Rep. Pete Sessions to Introduce Make Elections Secure Act – Would Eliminate Voting Machines

[DonGlock26]

This place is a bit bigger than France, just in case you didn't know.

So, no US state can match France?

 

[MarathonMike]

"Rep. Pete Sessions to Introduce Make Elections Secure Act – Would Eliminate Voting Machines and Ensure Hand-Marked Paper Ballots – Severely Restrict Mail-in Voting
The Gateway Pundit has obtained a draft copy of the Make Elections Secure Act (MESA), authored by Representative Pete Sessions (TX-17), which would repeal the outdated Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.

Among other things, it would also almost entirely eliminate electronic voting machines and ensure each voter casts their ballot on a hand-marked paper ballot with a manual hand-count. Exceptions for machine use would be permitted for voters requiring accessibility accommodations due to disabilities.

The bill, which would also apply to primary elections, also “restrict
mailed ballots to specific eligible voters with stringent verification process.” As of now, those are outlined as active-duty military stationed outside their voting jurisdiction and those with a physician-certified medical condition that would prevent in-person voting.



MESA would also provide accountability to the public by ensuring “maximum transparency by providing public access to all election processes and comprehensive Election Data, including unscrambled ballot images and cast vote records, with at least five days for officials to upload data.”"

Rep. Pete Sessions to Introduce Make Elections Secure Act - Would Eliminate Voting Machines and Ensure Hand-Marked Paper Ballots - Severely Restrict Mail-in Voting | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo

Representative Pete Sessions is set to introduce the Make Elections Secure Act, proposing significant changes to voting practices, including a shift to hand-marked paper ballots and stringent mail-in voting restrictions.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Who could be against secure elections? I suspect the Democrats will lose their shit over this.

Get rid of those Dominion Vote Modification Machines.

 

[Crepitus]

So, no US state can match France?

We have several states that are larger than France.

 

[DonGlock26]

We have several states that are larger than France.

So what?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Maybe if senate votes are done by mail and a million senators vote for this legislation, those who vote against it will take the hint.

That post makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Democrats only win because of fraud.

The vast majority of Americans hate democrats and view them as traitors working on a plot to intentionally collapse America

An American voting for democrats is like a chicken voting for Gavin Newsome

Funny! NOT.

 

[Crepitus]

So what?

YOu asked.

 

[Stann]

"Rep. Pete Sessions to Introduce Make Elections Secure Act – Would Eliminate Voting Machines and Ensure Hand-Marked Paper Ballots – Severely Restrict Mail-in Voting
The Gateway Pundit has obtained a draft copy of the Make Elections Secure Act (MESA), authored by Representative Pete Sessions (TX-17), which would repeal the outdated Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.

Among other things, it would also almost entirely eliminate electronic voting machines and ensure each voter casts their ballot on a hand-marked paper ballot with a manual hand-count. Exceptions for machine use would be permitted for voters requiring accessibility accommodations due to disabilities.

The bill, which would also apply to primary elections, also “restrict
mailed ballots to specific eligible voters with stringent verification process.” As of now, those are outlined as active-duty military stationed outside their voting jurisdiction and those with a physician-certified medical condition that would prevent in-person voting.



MESA would also provide accountability to the public by ensuring “maximum transparency by providing public access to all election processes and comprehensive Election Data, including unscrambled ballot images and cast vote records, with at least five days for officials to upload data.”"

Rep. Pete Sessions to Introduce Make Elections Secure Act - Would Eliminate Voting Machines and Ensure Hand-Marked Paper Ballots - Severely Restrict Mail-in Voting | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo

Representative Pete Sessions is set to introduce the Make Elections Secure Act, proposing significant changes to voting practices, including a shift to hand-marked paper ballots and stringent mail-in voting restrictions.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Who could be against secure elections? I suspect the Democrats will lose their shit over this.

Not practical. Machines are needed for fast , accurate computations. Plus you'd be allowing in the human factor ,which is much more unreliable and prone to errors.

 

[scruffy]

The problem is the average American has absolutely no way to know whether they are rigged or not.

BINGO.

Now you're thinking like a security expert.

The most important thing in an election is the chain of custody from the voter's fingers to the final tally.

The second most important thing is voter CONFIDENCE in the final tally, which equates with confidence in the chain of custody.

The problem with machines is they're black holes, they're not transparent.

And, they make mistakes - for any reason from programming to hardware failure. There's is currently ZERO process in place to guarantee machine function.

In Los Angeles the voting machines are not connected to the internet. They work off bar codes, which are generated by machines that ARE connected to the internet. I personally witnessed (along with 30 other eyewitnesses) a voter who lived in Sunland being given a ballot from Palmdale. The bar code was incorrect. Smudged, finagled, who knows.

In tiny Switzerland they have an end to end airtight process for guaranteeing that the vote being tallied is the one the voter chose. It works for Swiss citizens ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET. You can be living and voting in Zambia and it will still work. It costs... get ready for this... the price of a postcard. Per voter.

In the US, 150 million voters times a postage stamp is less than 100 million bucks, which is a TINY FRACTION of what Los Angeles spent for broken voting machines.

Simply outlawing voting machines isn't going to work, because it doesn't address the PROCESS, it just substitutes one black hole for another.

You CAN have a secure process with voting machines. Any security expert can design one for you. It's not hard, you just have to know what you're doing.

 

[Foxfyre]

BINGO.

Now you're thinking like a security expert.

The most important thing in an election is the chain of custody from the voter's fingers to the final tally.

The second most important thing is voter CONFIDENCE in the final tally, which equates with confidence in the chain of custody.

The problem with machines is they're black holes, they're not transparent.

And, they make mistakes - for any reason from programming to hardware failure. There's is currently ZERO process in place to guarantee machine function.

In Los Angeles the voting machines are not connected to the internet. They work off bar codes, which are generated by machines that ARE connected to the internet. I personally witnessed (along with 30 other eyewitnesses) a voter who lived in Sunland being given a ballot from Palmdale. The bar code was incorrect. Smudged, finagled, who knows.

In tiny Switzerland they have an end to end airtight process for guaranteeing that the vote being tallied is the one the voter chose. It works for Swiss citizens ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET. You can be living and voting in Zambia and it will still work. It costs... get ready for this... the price of a postcard. Per voter.

In the US, 150 million voters times a postage stamp is less than 100 million bucks, which is a TINY FRACTION of what Los Angeles spent for broken voting machines.

Simply outlawing voting machines isn't going to work, because it doesn't address the PROCESS, it just substitutes one black hole for another.

You CAN have a secure process with voting machines. Any security expert can design one for you. It's not hard, you just have to know what you're doing.

My philosophy has always been paper ballots hand tabulated by honorable people with poll watchers close enough to see what the ballot counters are doing. The ballots should be tabulated in the same location in which the votes are cast. And the poll watchers from all interested parties should be given a certified count when all ballots are hand counted. No new ballots can be admitted to a polling place once the polls have closed but those registered voters already in line when the polls close can cast their ballot that will be counted. Once the poll watchers have been handed their certified tally of the votes, the totals can be transmitted to a central location. The paper ballots can be placed in a box that is locked and sealed unless the vote is challenged and a recount is necessary. Both Republican and Democrat and whatever poll watchers must be present when the seal is broken for that recount.

Make sure that only citizens can register to vote and only citizens registered in the precinct they live in can vote and have photo ID to vote and we can be reasonably sure that our elections are secure and honest again.