Call me crazy, but I just don't trust the Dems to conduct fair elections- with transparency and security, only the people who should be voting, voting.
The latest scheme? A brand new, never-tested online voting system.
Hastily rolled out right before a special election, online voting for overseas voters was introduced by Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes this week.
Suffice it to say.... I have questions.
VoteBeat Arizona has the story:
Overseas voters who are registered in Arizona are receiving their ballots this week in a new way for the state’s special congressional election — but at least a few county officials are worried that the new system isn’t ready, and say they didn’t have enough time to notify voters of the change.
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced the launch of the new system on Friday for military and overseas voters who are registered to vote in Arizona and eligible to vote through the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or UOCAVA. These voters will now cast their ballots through a web portal run by an outside vendor, technology company Enhanced Voting, rather than using an in-house system.
But recorders are concerned that the rollout of the system has been rushed. Pinal County Recorder Dana Lewis said she didn’t find out until Wednesday that recorders would not be able to use the state’s old system to send ballots for the congressional election.
“The timing is not right,” Lewis said.
Recorders will send out ballots on Friday and Saturday to overseas voters registered in the state’s 7th Congressional District for the special general election to replace late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died earlier this year. That election is on Sept. 23, but the federal deadline to send out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters is 45 days before an election — which is this Saturday.
There are 680 of those voters eligible for the congressional election across six southern Arizona counties.
Under the new system, overseas voters registered in Arizona log in to a website where they can fill out their ballot and either submit it electronically or print it out and mail it in. Under the old, in-house system, voters had to print out their ballot and either mail it back, or email a scanned image of the printout. The new system will make voting possible for voters without access to a printer.
Several county recorders told Votebeat they’ve been trying for months to get Fontes to pump the brakes on the system. On Wednesday, the leaders of the Arizona Association of County Recorders, which represents recorders in all 15 counties, met with Fontes to express their concerns about outstanding problems.
Lewis said the main concerns were that recorders had so many unanswered questions, and that there wasn’t enough time to educate voters on the change.
Yuma County Recorder David Lara said the state should have held off until next year’s elections to launch the system, which would have allowed time to work out any kinks.
Now, knowing the issues with Adrian Fontes before this point, surely you can understand my concerns.
If even Democrat County Recorders are raising the red flag, what does THAT tell you?
This is typical Adrian Fontes- poorly thought through, rife with holes that could result in fraud, and rushed without review.
A Democrat will always try to make it easier to cheat. And that is what we have here.
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Wendy Rogers is a retired member of the Air Force. Use of military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense.
