DamienSF's comments

I am not sure how the findings of this report can reinforce the expectation of fairness in the selection process. The reports points out to evidences of various election fraud tactics (voter suppression, registration tampering, illegal voter purging and fraudulent voting machine tallies) which have been carried out to eventually influence the outcome of the election.

Also, I wonder how can the Democratic party can still be credible in denouncing Republicans efforts to suppress voters the right to vote when employing the exact same tactics during the primaries.

American voters have the possibility to register as Democrat, Republican, Green, another party of their choice or none (NPP). Depending on the voter's State and which party he intends to support during the primary process, the voter may or may not be required to be registered under a specific party preference in order to vote during the primary.

For example, the Democratic New York primary is a closed primary which means only voters registered as Democrats have the right to vote. However, the Democratic Californian primary is an open primary which allows voters registered as Democrats or as NPP to vote.

Voters can change their party preference at any time but they may be required to be registered under a specific party for a certain period of time in order to be given the right to vote in some States. For instance, in order to vote in New York you needed to be a registered Democrat for the past 6 months prior to the election date. This is a disadvantage to candidates who are well supported by independent voters (NPP) as many of them did not change their registration on time. That said, these rules are those of the party and while they can be considered unfair, this doesn't qualify for election fraud.

An election fraud tactic the report mentions is "registration tampering" which consists in switching the registration of voters without their consent and knowledge in order to suppress their right to vote. There have been numerous reports of registration tampering across most States with voters being switched from Democrats to Republicans or from Democrats to NPP and so on. Registrations seem to have been switch electronically (change in the database) some even involving forged signatures.

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Agree, we have to make hand counting possible in the first place.

Thankfully for Hillary, electronic machines will be flipping some votes in her favor. Will this be enough though?

This is very disturbing! Google just got caught manipulating search recommendations to influence the outcome of an election.

There are many distinctions to be made when it comes to voter suppression. The first category we are seeing during most elections is the legal voter suppression where voters cannot vote because of stringent requirements. However, we've seen numerous cases of unexplained voter suppression during these elections where voters purely disappeared from the voter roll without any explanations.

I am not saying this is favoring Clinton over Sanders but it certainly undermines the trust anyone can have regarding the final results.

I don't see why YouTube (the medium) is the problem here. Both reputable or non-reputable sources can post content on YouTube.

The first video is an interview of two poll workers expressing their concerns regarding the unusually high number of voters that were removed from the voter roll. There aren't any apparent reason why their testimony should not be considered as credible.

The second video shows a voter being shown a document she allegedly signed and that had for effect to switch her party affiliation from Democrate to Republican. However, it seems the signature on this document has been forged. There have been multiple reports of allegedly forged signatures during this election, most of them reported by voters on social media. Here is another example: https://www.facebook.com/groups/518955314959236/permalink/51...

Sure the validity of these reports need to be verified but I don't see why they should be dismissed beforehand.

The right to vote should be made easily accessible to all eligible voters and the voting counts should be independently verifiable. The Board of Elections isn't an independent structure as it is organized today.

I'm in favor of paper ballots counted by hand. Blockchain technology could also be an interesting possibility to explore.

The large number of unexplained switched voter registrations are very worrisome and the system in place has yet been incapable of offering answers on this matter.

For a comprehensive analysis of the voting data I would recommend to have a look at the blog of Richard Charnin: https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/ny-democrati... as well as the research paper on electronic vote flipping by Francois Choquette and James Johnson: http://madisonvoices.com/pdffiles/2008_2012_ElectionsResults...

I agree that the author's points could have been developed in a more compelling manner but I think the purpose of this article is to draw attention on the topic and open the debate.

Several members of Congress are currently discussing the topic ( http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35846-members-of-congress... ). However, it is expected that mainstream media won't echo these talks as it would result in opening a can of worms.

Voting machines are black boxes which by nature are incompatible with one fundamental principle of democracy: transparency.

This is a major issue because even if the fraud is unproven, voters can legitimately be concerned about the accuracy of how votes are being counted.

That said, some statistical analysis research have shown a strong probability of votes being flipped by electronic machines in past elections. Here is the original research paper: http://madisonvoices.com/pdffiles/2008_2012_ElectionsResults...

The "saving money" argument is always used to explain the reduction of the number of polling sites but it is not a credible one when considering that only very specific locations are being impacted. Also, the volume of purged voters is inexplicably high ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORoXanoqXwQ ) and many troubling irregularities have been reported such as cases of forged signatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6YAEU-eDE

Here is the interview mentioned: https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/10153587923954...

Unconfirmed transactions are dramatically rising: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions