Perhaps lucky for Jones supporters, as Roy Moore supporters continue to bray about busloads of illegal Mexicans and Blacks voting in the Alabama senate race, they miss the simple and effective way to expose any vote-counting machine hacking which is far more likely to have taken place. If fraud indeed took place. ("Democrat Jones officially declared winner over Roy Moore")
Moore is not a typical Republican. To many in the GOP he represents a liability, as a result of his extreme views which inject religion into politics. It is not hard to imagine many establishment GOP honchos wanting him to lose, since Trump has shown he can pass a tax bill with the slim Senate majority he has got now. Moore is a lightening rod for controversy, even without the sex-related accusations being reported, which Moore categorically denies.
As election integrity activists pointed out in an Alabama court on the day before the election, each time a ballot is run through the type of vote-counting machine used in Alabama, a digital image of the ballot is produced which is then stored in memory. This is an additional audit feature which the manufacturers of the machines built into them. By simply reviewing the ballot images, citizens can verify that the machines were not hacked, which it has been shown is easy to do. ("BALLOT IMAGES – A NEW WAY TO VERIFY THAT RESULTS ARE TRUE")
But Moore supporters, ever eager to see illegal immigrants under the bed and in the voting booths, keep barking up the wrong tree, even though it is hurting their candidate. Rather than call for Secretary of State John Merrill to post the ballot images, as election activists across the country are calling for after every election, they harp on voter fraud.
It's not that some voter fraud may not exist. But election integrity experts have shown that if you are going to steal an election, the easiest way is to hack into the machines and change the vote count from what the ballots actually say.
In a damning indication that the vote-counting machines may have been hacked one way or the other, Secretary of State Merrill is fighting tooth and claw to destroy the ballot images. After an Alabama judge ruled on the day before the election that Merrill must preserve them, Merrill sought, and obtained, a higher court's order to allow him to destroy them. ("State Supreme Court stays order directing Alabama not to destroy voting records")
Moore supporters should demand that Merrill post the ballot images online, or make them available on a DVD. Because the images are completely anonymous, they cannot be traced back to any individual voter, and the principle of the secret ballot is preserved. But the secret ballot never meant secret counting.
If Moore supporters were any smarter, they'd be dangerous to the status quo.