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MANSFIELD — Following August special elections, a group of faith leaders sent a letter to the Richland County Board of Elections thanking them for using paper ballots as the primary method of voting. The clergy noted that voter fraud exists in all forms, whether with voting machines or paper ballots. They say, paper ballots counted locally by hand presents less opportunity for fraud since eyes from both sides do the counting. The clergy are not alone in their thinking.
A poll conducted by American Family News based in Tupelo, Mississippi found people prefer paper ballots. Over eighty percent out of almost eighteen hundred people participating in the survey say they feel more confident using paper ballots for voting instead of using electronic ballot machines and tabulators.
Pastor Les Farley, one of the clergy who sent the letter to the Board of Elections, commented, “Either by hook or by crook, domestic and foreign actors are targeting our elections. We need to be wise about using any electronic system, especially considering the U.S. government agencies have already been hacked at least seven times in 2023 alone.”
This past summer a bombshell report was released exposing vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines.
The clergy wrote in the letter to the Board of Elections, “This past summer the courts finally unsealed a report from twelve months ago by cybersecurity analyst J. Alex Halderman. The report confirmed votes can be altered in Dominion ICX voting machines by malware and that Dominion software can be hacked. Even federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems.
“Either by hook or by crook, domestic and foreign actors are targeting our elections. We need to be wise about using any electronic system, especially considering the U.S. government agencies have already been hacked at least seven times in 2023 alone.”
Pastor Les Farley
“As lead clergymen from eighty congregations, we do not pretend to be experts in cybersecurity or voting technology,” said Pastor Chad Hayes. “However, when issues of morality and election integrity are at play, we get involved.”
Ten independent cybersecurity experts prior to the 2020 elections found a number of Dominion Voting Systems’ voting machines to be connected online, leaving the voting system at risk. In the NBC News report, Dominion admitted they put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners. Those modems connect to cell phone networks, which in turn, connect to the Internet.
The Ohio clergy say the Republic’s days are numbered if citizens are not actively participating in the election process.
Pastor J.C. Church pointed out, “Looking at some counties and leaders who have gone back to paper ballots for the primary voting method, eyes from both sides do the counting, which gives us more peace about the process.”
The Bottom Line:
The Bible says in Proverbs Eleven, “A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is His delight.”
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