On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:15:56 -0600, Ignoramus22212
wrote:

On 2016-11-27, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 06:29:02 -0600, Ignoramus22212
wrote:

What sort of thing would you expect, if you "recount" an
all-electronic vote?

Ask your Mayor Daley. This sort of thing is not new to him, although
he didn't have electronics to corrupt in his day.



I mean, electronic voting is not much. Votes are recorded in the
computer, anonymously, and then the sum totals are transmitted from
precincts to the election body. They are summed again at the state
level.

What sort of a recount is possible here? Just re-summing again?

Maybe go through the voting machine memories, looking for hacking?


I am not saying that voting computers were definitely not hacked, only
that there is nothing to recount or an all electronic vote.

At least in the case of paper ballots, they can be re-scanned again or
counted by hand.

Electronic records, not so much.

Yeah, I don't really understand that, either.


If, for example, voter fraud is discovered and certain ineligible
voters were found to have voted, there is not even any way to remove
their votes, as they are anonymous and there is nothing that ties a
voter to a vote.

True.

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