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IPFS News Link • Voting and Elections

Verifying voting-machine output with digitally imaged ballots

• youtube.com, Wisconsin Grassroots Network

But here's an even bigger scandal: No one has any proof election results haven't been miscounted or hacked. In every other use of computer technology, computer output is routinely checked for accuracy, but Wisconsin election clerks check only that the computers counted the right number of ballots, not the right number of votes. It's as if the grocery clerk gave you a receipt showing only the number of items scanned and how much you owe.

Wisconsin's county clerks have statutory responsibility for accurate election results, but they don't check for two reasons. First, they are reluctant to open ballot bags sealed on Election Night for fear that partisans will accuse them of tampering and second, because of the time pressure to finalize election results coming from the news media and others.


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