Minnehaha County Auditor asks for renewal of ballot counting equipment contract, but also hand counting, as she’s compared to Pontius Pilate.

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Good gosh. Sounds like the Minnehaha County Auditor’s office continues to circle the drain with election nuttery. From KELOland, today Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson was up in front of the Minnehaha County Commission requesting the renewal of ballot counting equipment:

Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson asked the commission to approve the contract, but pointed out numerous times she is not the governing board of elections in Minnehaha County when it comes to automatic tabulating systems.

“It puts you as the governing board in authority of deciding how we’re going to conduct our elections in the county,” Anderson said. “While I do love technology and moving into future centuries, with things like the public surplus auction, I also like to be cautious with technology when it comes to something like our elections. As we introduce more technology, I feel like we take away some of the electoral process from the people.”

Anderson said she’d be in favor of Minnehaha County becoming a county with random hand counts at the precinct level along with using tabulators.

Read that here.

As related further in the KELO story, and from the Dakota Scout.. it was about then things went off the rails, as members of the public were there to fan the flames of election conspiracies.

After wondering where all of this came from in the first place, County Commissioners had harsh words for the Auditor, as Commissioner Joe Kippley unloaded on the county auditor, comparing her to Pontius Pilate:

Commissioner Joe Kippley had the harshest criticism for Anderson and her supporters, saying he didn’t appreciate “the smuggling in” of other issues to a routine service agreement.

“I just don’t get this Pontius Pilate, washing my hands, I’m just a tribune to the people, and I will let the public commentors come up and smuggle in all of these issues that have frankly been litigated in court,” Kippley said

Read that here.

It’s going to be a long election..

27 thoughts on “Minnehaha County Auditor asks for renewal of ballot counting equipment contract, but also hand counting, as she’s compared to Pontius Pilate.”

        1. The Magistrate Courtroom of DWC. Bravo!

          *golf clap*

          I’d like to make a motion to take away this Anon’s keyboard.

          Exhibit B is his reference to Exhibit A, which was not an exhibit, because this is not a court room.

          Wait, what?

    2. I’m sure MSM won’t report truths like the findings of an AZ superior court justice who recently found that there were to the tune of 420,000 + votes that were unlawfully counted in Maricopa County alone. Or how about WI banning most ballot drop boxes because of the irregularities in their elections. No, it’s no longer a conspiracy like most of us in SD knew. It seems the only ones that didn’t know are those who get the majority of their news from the leftist mouthpiece known as legacy media..

  2. Count them by hand.

    Allow public scrutiny.

    Restore integrity.

    One step.

    Big leap: why do people get mush mouth when trying to define who can vote in SD elections? I mean …

    The people who live here?

    Seems simple until one factors in the subversive threats entering the politico-legal environment at various entry points.

    Without election integrity, the security and safety of our country will slowly degrade until we look like a 3rd world country.

    Our strength is our combined intellect .. look at what happened to our education system from 2019 to present.

  3. One day elections, paper ballots, hand counting, only citizens vote. Most courts did not hear election cases but dismissed on no standing and such. There is something wrong with Dusty getting 50,000 more votes than Trump in 2020.

    1. Dusty may have had this kind of support because he faced his constituents and took criticism in person. He returns phone calls and emails, he does a lot with his budget, and he manages a very lean and mean operation in my opinion.

      He’s made some mistakes (pushing the shots might not be survivable if a future opponent has chops, cred, and real dollars), but Johnson has great potential to take and make a winning shot (so to speak) if the ball is in his hands.

      Unless I’m given access to a different verifiable fact set, there is only one of our federal reps that I just can’t stomach supporting, developing a relationship with because his constituents seem to love war and seem very eager to foi$t it upon the world.

      1. please name names. opposing communism and totalitarianism was our nation’s major role as leader of the free world. that got forgotten quite often during the clinton years as we normalized red china, and the bush years as w got chummy with vlad the invader. all the idiot trump did was ignore pompeo and bolton, and gladhand russia and north korea like they were contestants on ‘global apprentice.’ biden is a spendhappy nightmare on domestic issues but i think he has world diplomacy pretty well handled given the huge mess he inherited.

        1. in 2004 conservative democrat zell miller spoke for re-electing bush 43, in a stemwinder speech about the shame and cowardice of his beloved democrat party. they were running a heavy populist anti-war message against bush that year. democrat pollster pat caudell had jumped to the conservatives as well for similar reasons. former dem journalist andrew breitbart and a few other former dems found a home in bush-era conservatism.
          they may as well not even have wasted their time.
          trump brushed off that populist dem anti war stance and used it himself against hilary because she owned obama’s war record. he gleefully trashed john mccain’s service in a dastardly yellow overkill in his speeches, to cheering crowds who simply hated his blue blood gop bonafides (of which trump cared not a whit.) trump’s testing showed people were war weary and would latch onto easy and quick war-ending promises. the focus group positive feedback loop he and hannity’s fox-news juggernaut created has outlived the fall of fox, to all of our detriment.
          caudell and brietbart passed over a decade ago; miller died in 2018. each was spared the humiliating knowledge that their hard sacrifices were squandered by this generation’s p.t. barnum. let those with an ear, hear.

          1. andy breitbart died in 2012 and didn’t see what a train wreck steve bannon made of his web domain. caddell (sp) died in 2019, so he actually had time to feel his regrets.

    3. re: dusty johnson’s 2020 vote total – thune got 38 thousand more votes than trump in 2016, you can’t compare races like that to make a point. there are many civics books that can explain basic election rules, and various news sources to explain how the sddp rarely puts up a viable competitor.

    1. This is the heart of the reason Trump is winning the primary. A large % of Republicans have lost confidence in most of our systems and our leaders don’t see any reason to say or do anything to regain that trust in our systems which gives the impression they are in on the demise.

      The establishment is too deep in their own echo chamber to ever see the role they have in making Trump the nominee. Heck, it was their “we got this, don’t worry your pretty little head” attitude that gave us Trump in the first place.

      1. fox says they’re NOT less accurate. that’s why.
        it’s constantly amazing to me that a group of people who won’t listen to anyone or anybody, DOES listen to every whacked out conspiracy theory on fox even and especially IF they’re discredited and proved wrong. we all must be lying.
        it’s needlessly stupid on one level and smugly offensive on another level, but i think that’s the effect they’re shooting for. it must be.

        1. Enquirer, can you even think for yourself? Do you disregard everything you hear from someone with whom you disagree? If so, your brain is only taking in information that confirms your current thoughts and is of no real use. You continual comments disregarding anything that comes from Fox shows you are ACTUALLY what you say you don’t like in those you disagree.

          This is the fact: On the vast majority of ballots (like maybe as high as 99%), machine counting and hand counting are equally accurate. Just like the machines that count money, the primary advantage of machine counting is they are significantly faster. But, unless you have sophisticated money counters, machine counted money is a poor identifier of counterfeit money.

          That is why it is normal and customary to allow for an automatic recount in the machine count is within 1% or 2% to introduce the human brain to discern if the ballot has an issue, just like banks use humans to do an initial assessment of whether a bill is counterfeit.

          So, until we have the same or better security (cyber and sign-in verification) for electronic voting machines, to lessen the opportunity for fraud and the highest confidence in our elections, we should have paper ballots, appropriate “chains of custody” of ballots/ballot boxes, machine counted, with an option for hand count a recount is reasonably called for by the loser or there is information that a particular machine, etc. raises suspicions.

  5. if 68 percent of my fellow republicans think 2020 was a rigged election then we shouldn’t continue as a party. NOT that there even is a party with trump and his entourage in charge of it.

    1. Enquirer, are all NeverTrumpers as dumb as you?

      There are a lot of reasons why people might think Biden didn’t fairly win the election.

      One might be they believe media bias unfairly impacted either voter turn-out or opinion (ala the laptop was a Russian disinformation scam), an opinion that you don’t share but that doesn’t mean their opinion isn’t legitimate.

      Another might be the change to mail-in ballots was done without sufficient measures to insure the person submitting the ballot was the registered voter. While nobody knows if this was significant enough to impact the outcome since nobody has done ANY work to discern how widespread it might have been, the second is objectively true as nearly every mail in state had no mechanism to ascertain if the person opening the mailed-out ballot was the registered voter, if the person who filled it out was the registered voter, or if the person mailing it back was the registered ballot. We relied 100% on the honor system. I’m wondering if you think protecting your bank account or email security should be done with the honor system? Personally, I have no idea if this was so widespread and the net abuse was enough to change the result and I’ll never know. But, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about what are reasonable and proper controls to give us all confidence in our elections.

      Your disdain for others makes you exactly what you rail against in others, even though you have no idea if your have accurate information.

      BTW, I’m not a Republican nor a Trump supporter. I am first and foremost a truth seeker with low regard for people who say stupid things.

  6. The Republican base has moved to President Trump. The harder Republican establishment and Funders fight it the more popular he gets.

    1. there’s a limit to this already. wait and see. trump can have huge numbers AND have them be the only numbers he’ll ever get. he’s not close enough to win the general, just the gop primary and nobody evidently cares about that. he has topped out already. there’s no place to get the extra voters he needs from.

      1. when cruz had big numbers leading up to 2016, that was the knock on him too, that his numbers were already at about the maximum he would have, and a lack of crossover appeal would be the problem. that absolutely is trumps problem too. that’s why he’s trying to walk back the supco abortion decision, it killed his crossover.

    1. no, they said CRUZ could not win. they feared trump and he crushed them all. my point is, all the baggage that stopped early front-runner cruz in 2016 is attached firmly to trump this time, since he got the bush 41 treatment in 2020. he wants to look invulnerable, but he is constantly topped out on votes he can get in an election, basically enough to win a primary and that’s it – with no centrist / crossover appeal – and he loses at things too, he’s not invulnerable. i think i don’t worry that he’ll win another term – today i’m angry that you supporters are gutting the gop for him.

      1. ps – the late rush limbaugh laid out the facts regarding cruz’s chances in 2016. i feel all of what he said then applies to trump now.

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