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Ward 5 resident urges O'Fallon council to back hand‑counted paper ballots, alleging machine vulnerabilities
Summary
Doug Gaines, a Ward 5 resident, used the public‑comment period to urge the council to adopt a resolution advocating hand‑counted paper ballots, alleging tabulator failures, deleted records and vendor vulnerabilities; council acknowledged comments but took no action.
Doug Gaines, a Ward 5 resident, urged the O'Fallon City Council during two public‑comment periods on Jan. 5 to adopt a resolution calling for hand‑counted paper ballots, saying county electronic tabulators have failed and that records were deleted in ways he described as evidence of “systemic fraud.”
Gaines told the council he had served as an election judge and cited what he described as discrepancies between official totals and cast vote records, saying the…
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