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Election Reform

Wilms

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3. Are there ADEQUATE audits?

Reply to Ellipsis (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 07:31 PM

Feb 2016

If there's a good audit, not just any audit, you can achieve pretty high confidence.

But most of the "audits" I've read about do not do that well, except where there is a wide margin.

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Any opinion on Express vote voting machines [View all] Ellipsis Feb 2016 OP

It's touchscreen. Wilms Feb 2016 #1

Yeah I know, I used one today... two part system, one prints the other tabulates Ellipsis Feb 2016 #2

Are there ADEQUATE audits? Wilms Feb 2016 #3

Don't know... I'll find out it is a progressive lttle town though. Ellipsis Feb 2016 #4

Generally it is a state issue. Wilms Feb 2016 #5

I don't trust the vote counters. SaveTheMackerel Feb 2016 #6