LISTEN TO SALLY CASTLEMAN AND JUDY ALTER
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“At the present time, something like 97 or 98 percent of our votes are counted by machine which means we’re not only having a secret vote, but we’re also having a secret vote count. There’s no citizen oversight for machine counting. And we think that that doesn’t really belong in a democracy,” said Sally Castleman, national chairperson of Election Defense Alliance.
Sitting beside her fellow EDA member, Judy Alter said, “We need our votes accurately counted and you count in public and you add the numbers. So we shouldn’t be talking about computers at all. We should be talking about just counting the votes. And you can do that on a black board or an adding machine with no [computer] program.”
“The mainstream media has not touched the issue of election fraud in our elections, which is rampant across, and we feel that the media is actually complicit in this,” Castleman said, explaining EDA’s presence at the media reform conference.
Significant media attention is given to voter fraud, which is rare. In contrast, election fraud receives hardly any coverage despite being far more problematic and prevalent.
Alter described the difference as “wholesale or retail.” Castleman said, “The thing is with electronics one person can change the outcome of an entire state and not even leave a trace, and that’s just an enormous blight on our country.”
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