Re: Hand counting ballots

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Paul:

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:29:21 -0700, you wrote:

>An interesting concept, since it has checks and balances. However, hand
>counting of ballots has always proven to be suspect and open to fraud. Get
>ten people to count the ballots, get ten totals. Is it fraud or is it human
>error?
>Now add the DRE count and then the scanned count. Which one do the elections
>officials choose? Averaging is not permitted.
>
>Go thunk on that.

You choose the hand count.  It is as simple as that.

If the election is close and/or if there are big discrepancies between the
hand count and the machine counts then you do a more careful and supervised
hand count.

_Something_ has to trump and I prefer hand counting.

>
>Paul Tiger

Ralph