Young, the chairwoman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, was speaking, seemingly in general, about
voting machine audits in tight legislative races.
Not exact matches
Michigan does not have an
audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents
vote on optical scan
machines, a type of
machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen
machines used in some other states.
Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board of Elections to complete its 3 percent
audit of
voting machines and count absentee ballots before calling for a hand recount.
«The fact of the matter is the
audit of the
voting machines has shown no problems and to date no one has questioned the integrity of the
machines,» Ryan said.
Audits to examine the veracity of the
machine vote count are continuing in Erie and Niagara counties.
City Board of Elections Valerie Vasquez said an
audit still needs to occur of the
voting machines and absentee ballots must be counted, which could take weeks.
Former KSU Center for Elections Director acknowledged under oath in deposition that our
voting machines do not have an independent
audit trail of each
vote cast
Even if the
machines are high quality (and none of the current ones on the market have proven to be that), the inability to manually recount, to
audit, and to prevent rigging and the potential for widespread, wholesale fraud are deal breakers for purely electronic
voting.
May 13, 2018 • Most electronic
voting machines don't create a paper trail but
voting officials in Austin are trying to marry the convenience of electronic
machines with a paper trail that can be
audited.
Barbara Simons is a computer scientist and teacher; she argues that, because of the stability problems of digital
voting machines and online
voting, paper ballots are required to allow an
audit of
voting results.
Many experts advocate having the
machines create a paper trail that the voter can see at the time of
voting, which would be available to check afterwards (a «voter verified
audit trail».)