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CousinIT

(9,259 posts) Thu Nov 24, 2016, 07:30 PM Nov 2016

FYI a recount isn't an audit

An audit would follow the path of the vote from whence it was cast to it being added to the vote totals - it would examine voting machines and methods used during the election process for recording and counting votes.

A recount only recounts votes afterwards. This could still expose some anomalies but it's not as thorough as an audit (which IMO should be conducted by every state after an election - should be Federal law w/ results and issues encountered reported to @CivilRights - IF we lived in a civil, sane country -- which we do not)

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FYI a recount isn't an audit (Original Post) CousinIT Nov 2016 OP

I agree on the need for audit after every election SickOfTheOnePct Nov 2016 #1

too lazy to check, on last slice of pumpkin pie.. JHan Nov 2016 #2

SickOfTheOnePct

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1. I agree on the need for audit after every election

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Thu Nov 24, 2016, 07:42 PM

Nov 2016

Not of every vote of course, but of a representative sample across all voting methods within a state.

And I agree about this not being an audit - they're just going to recount the votes, and I don't think that WI law actually requires them to hand count paper ballots.

JHan

(10,173 posts)

2. too lazy to check, on last slice of pumpkin pie..

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Thu Nov 24, 2016, 08:00 PM

Nov 2016

I thought all this included an audit, I read that somewhere.

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