We retired and built a house in a rural VA county in 2008. In 2025 we sold the house and moved into an apartment in northern VA close to our children.
In the 17 years we lived in the rural county we did a LOT of volunteer work. I was an EMT and later captain of a volunteer rescue squad as well as serving 15 years on the county electoral board.
The "cast vote record" as a favorite target of the "voter fraud investigators." It is a digital record made in the machine software that lists: date/time ballot cast, ballot serial number, and selections on the ballot. It can be extracted only by technicians from the manufacturer and it serves as the digital representation of how voters voted and is used for tabulating election results, conducting audits, and verifying election outcomes. The "voter fraud investigators" like to portray the CVR as some mysterious something that is manipulated by those of us who stole the election.
As for the photo of the election official helping a voter insert her ballot into the machine. Note that the ballot is turned face down so the election official cannot see how the voter voted. We -- and every other municipality I know of -- give the voter a blank ballot in a privacy sleeve (we used manila folders). Voter marks ballot, slips it back into the sleeve with the top sticking out showing only the header, not the marked portion, slip the top of the ballot into the voting machine which pulls the ballot out of the privacy sleeve and into the machine to be tallied. I suspect in this case the voter was having problems with the privacy sleeve and the election official was helping. I've done it from time to time, careful not to look at the voter's ballot.
I've dealt with a lot of the "election fraud investigators" and discovered that they are accusing us of criminal activity because they themselves are the ones who are lying, cheating, and stealing.
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