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Wow, those error rates are actually much higher than I'd have expected. I wonder if the cause is something like a difference in how humans vs machines deem ball

• jandrese 4y ago
  You can change a lot of votes by altering the rules as to what is considered a valid vote. Read into the details of the 2000 election and you'll see just how much of a leg up George W Bush got from party control of the vote counting. There are plenty of scenarios where he would have lost if the rules were decided differently during the counting process. Had the decisions been made neutrally Bush would have lost in Florida.
• ensignavenger 4y ago
  The audit found that the ballots had been folded "incorrectly" (Is there a right way to fold the ballots?) and if the crease went through the mark for a candidate, it would count the crease as a mark. This meant if the voter had marked another candidate, it would think it was double voted and not count it, and if they had not marked a candidate, it would count it as a vote. I am not sure having the source code of the machines be open source would help, but maybe make it easier to audit and detect that the crease would lead to a miscounted ballot.