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2016 Postmortem

FBaggins

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7. Only if they're seals related to the vote... not the warranty on the machine.

Reply to magicarpet (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 12:14 PM

Dec 2016

A seal customarily indicates the machine has been tested, calibrated, and witnessed to work and function properly just before it is placed into service for an election.

Right... but not seals of the type shown in the photos. This wasn't a seal placed by county or state elections officials.

signals a flashing red neon light that tampering with a free and fair election count was the intent of breaking the seal open.

Note really... because that type of tampering wouldn't be consistent from one machine to the next... and only a small subset of the machines used on election day are used in the recount. It would stick out like a sore thump when one tainted machine counted dozens (even hundreds) of stacks of ballots and kept coming up with different results than on election day.

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Tip of a massive iceberg? [View all] apcalc Dec 2016 OP

Not likely FBaggins Dec 2016 #1

Broken seals on electronic voting machines raise questions of tampering magicarpet Dec 2016 #4

Only if they're seals related to the vote... not the warranty on the machine. FBaggins Dec 2016 #7

From Snopes FBaggins Dec 2016 #8

Thks! apcalc Dec 2016 #10

Break a security seal - then document entry to it as to who/why/wherefor - ....... magicarpet Dec 2016 #11

The problem with your claim is right there in the title FBaggins Dec 2016 #12

I feel like if we can just raise enough doubt... cilla4progress Dec 2016 #2

Not VOTER fraud - this is ELECTION fraud ...... magicarpet Dec 2016 #3

+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #5

THX for the edit APCALC - an important distinction (NT) magicarpet Dec 2016 #6

You bet! Realized right away! Thank you! apcalc Dec 2016 #9

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