I have never wrote a blog here but today was exceptional, very exceptional. Today, October 20th, was the first day of early voting here in NC. My family and I have waited months for this day and were all eager to cast our votes for Hillary and down ballot Democrats. We went to the voting place we usually go to and stood in a small line to await our turn. Once we went inside this is when things started to get a little bit odd. First off once it was determined we could vote the official at the desk turned to the one on her right and said about my wife… “She’s a 15”. Not sure what that meant bu then the same thing happened to my grandson and daughter with the same type of comment. I had voted by mail earlier and never heard of such a thing before. My ballot was not numbered. As I waited for them to finish voting I noticed that once people went to turn in their ballots some were counted/slotted by the above pictured machine, there were 2 of them. Others, women and a couple of African Americans were instructed to place their ballots in the Slot of the cart of the other machine and were not counted. There was a large slot in the cabinet the machine was sitting on as though it had been planned that way to begin with.
I thought the was odd and then my wife showed up with hers. They asked to see the number on the upper right hand side of the ballot and there the number 15 appeared. Remember earlier she was called a 15. She too was told to place hers in the slot as well and it too was not immediately processed. Very odd indeed. I asked the woman doing this why was this going on and this is where it really got even more strange. First she told me someone earlier had asked if there vote was going to be counted and that was the reason why ballots were being placed in the slot of what looked like a trash can. A few seconds later a second official showed up and I asked her why this was happening and the first answer was the numbers were precinct numbers, though our precinct is number 7, then she said it was also to keep the machine from overheating. REALLY! What is going to happen on the actual election day then and why were some being counted and others slotted?
Strange enough though, after my wife went by another man showed up and his got counted then my grandson showed up and his went in the slot. Next came a long haired younger man and his got the slot as well. I watched this for about another 20 minutes waiting on our daughter and some were slotted and others were counted. I then asked again “Why and when will these ballots be counted if at all?” she said, “ We will count them tomorrow morning”, and walked away.
Mind you where we live is very RED. Only about 1200 Democrats in the county but one thing is sure, all ballots are the same with no differences. Both machines were fully functional and only about 400 ballots had been cast by the time we arrived. From my personal observations Democrat votes were being put into the slot due to particular coded corners and Republican ballots were being processed on the spot. This smacks of egregious behavior by our county election boards and those of us who were slotted have no real way to know if our votes were properly processed and counted. We will never see them counted like others who voted this day.
Tonight we had a regular scheduled meeting of the District Democrat Committee and we discussed it there. They also concluded that this was highly irregular as well and needed to be looked into but regardless we know what happened and what they did and in my opinion if election fraud is going to happen its the Republicans in red districts in red states who will do it. Today was a wake up call to all to make sure your vote is counted. We might never know if ours was.