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When people vote, the machines they use record votes electronically and on tape. However, when summing up the votes, only the electronic portion is tallied up b
by cjslep 9y ago
When people vote, the machines they use record votes electronically and on tape. However, when summing up the votes, only the electronic portion is tallied up by removing a physical memory device and plugging them in to another special machine that does the summation.
This woman wants access to the actual physical tapes which have been stored, in order to do a statistical sampling of them in order to say how statistically likely the electronic tally was. (Physically counting the tapes by hand is not practical)
The courts are considering barring her again from access to the tapes.
If the electronic portion was highly statistically unlikely, then there are a lot of places the vote could have been tampered: tallying machines, individual voting machines, memory cartridges, physical transport of memory cartridges, even the paper tapes themselves, etc.
For a documentary I recommend watching Hacking Democracy.
- yazan94 9y agoThank you very much for explaining it. In my jurisdiction, we fill in our choices on paper ballots and insert them to a machine. I thought this single machine did its thing on its own and without additional machines. Thank you for explaining the process and the various points of suspicion in the process