The War on Neighborhood Voting Precincts

By Jay O’Callaghan

By removing voting from a local neighborhood precinct where voting can easily be observed by friends and neighbors, as well as poll watchers, vote centers open the door to vote fraud. They are also dependent on computer connected voting poll books, which could be hacked. Vote centers are now in use in 33-out-of-50 states and can be used to cover up the paper trail of neighborhood precinct results.........This means that vote centers can be used to eliminate a key source of information to researchers and campaigns besides exit polls, which are often inaccurate. Ending election results by precinct would allow elections officials (who are often affiliated with political parties) to cover up evidence of voter fraud, which is often revealed by looking at results by individual neighborhood precincts........Also, vote centers are dependent on a countywide Internet connection, so along with early voting and all-mail voting they are more open to hacking. They are a result of the so-called HAVA (Help America Vote Act) federal regulation which has greatly increased and complicated the cost of local elections........Read More