Bureaucracy Serves Bureaucracy, NOT the People
What the Mohave County AZ Elections Director Proved about hand counting ballots...
Phoenix, AZ October 5, 2023… On August 1st, Allen Tempert presented a plan, clearly created in bureaucratic bubble, for hand counting of paper ballots, at the precinct level contemporaneously with Election Day. Tempert, an individual with (decades of experience in design?) claimed that his process would cost $1.1Million to run. But the design falls apart when Tempert revealed that it would be staffed by paid employees of the county. Apparently he has never heard of the Hand Count Road Show.
The proposal, made by State Senator Sonny Borrelli, was a concept intended to try out a process that did not include machine counting of ballots for a limited scope election, the Republican Presidential Preference Primary (aka PPE) scheduled for March, 2024.
Tempert proved two things…
One: The bureaucratic machine will design process in a bubble that makes no sense, is outlandishly expensive and blocks what the People want all because the Bureaucracy doesn’t want to do the job.
Two: Wave the specter of cost to bludgeon elected officials into submission works. But wait a minute, could it be that we should have been spending more on elections all along? Could it be that in the name of cheap we have turned over our elections to a bureaucratic machine that has locked us into the use of machines that we cannot audit and therefore have no idea if they are counting the votes as cast?
What’s the truth about hand counting?
On April 17th 2023, TEXAS FIRST organized volunteers to gather in Dallas Texas to do a mock election tabulation of paper ballots utilizing a fast and simple method consisting of large push-button calculators to track the votes, while displaying the video over-watch designed to ensure transparency during the count. While the video feed providing the most transparent view of the process possible may not be permitted by law in some states, if the law is silent on the matter, it should be assumed to be permitted.
The ‘Mock’ County website was set up to display the success and be the antidote for Bureaucratic Bubble Syndrome (BBS). I urge you to watch the video so that you can see how simple this process is. It requires no computers, and with video capture of the process the paper ballot count is easily and transparently captured for all the world to see. Now some may object to realtime monitoring, and prefer for the video to be just a record of the count. Regardless, the point is to add transparency to a process that currently is anything but transparent.
County Attorney’s refuse to represent the Board’s of Supervisors?
That’s right, all 15 County Attorney’s (elected as they are) have gone on record that they will not support the County Board’s of Supervisors if they move to a hand count system. Why? Because the election control cartel seeks to protect the appearance of “elections” that many believe have been turned into a simulation of an election by the use of “black box ballot tabulation” systems where there is ZERO transparency. While the vendors must submit the code that they claim is operating on their equipment to an escrow account maintained by the Secretary of State, we the People cannot see the code to verify there is no malware or “vote flipping” code in the mix.
Counting versus Re-counting
It should not need an explanation, but the argument hangs on two letters, so it is important to understand the nomenclature here. Counting happens during the election and upon the completion of counting the election is done. In other words, it happens before the election.
Re-counting on the other hand is an action undertaken as the result of a challenge after the election is certified. The re-count, is dependent on a statutory “sample” of a small percentage of ballots to verify there is no discrepancy between a sample of paper ballots counted by hand and the machine count.
So why is something so simple so controversial?
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