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How would this defeat doing a statistical hand sampling of the ballots to verify the electronic counting is accurate?
by Sparkle-san 2y ago
How would this defeat doing a statistical hand sampling of the ballots to verify the electronic counting is accurate?
- blibble 2y agowhat's the failure point? then you work inside that I know a guy who did this for a job for a company that produced food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_sign his entire job was to allow the company to push up as close to that line as possible without going over when checked randomly saving them tens of millions a year
- Sparkle-san 2y agoDepends on how many ballots you sample, but the number you could change would only matter in an extremely close election and in my state, if a vote is within 0.5%, it triggers an automatic recount. These systems have layers of auditing and validation to prevent these errors whether intentional or not.