recounts in Colorado (under present law) -- The definition of insanity

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The recent reply to Monty Lambie from Drew Durham (SoS Elections):

With electronic balloting in place in some precincts already, what is the
vote verification process? How is a recount conducted in an electronic
environment?

Recounts are governed by state law.  A recount is required to be conducted
in the same fashion as the original count.  HAVA requires an audit capacity
which is to be used in any recount.  Therefore, printed reports from each
voting machine or central count machine will be used in recount situations.
Voting information is stored on three separate hard drives to provide
redundancy so that in the event of failure of one or two of the hard drives,
a manual audit of reports created from the remaining hard drive(s) will
provide proof of votes cast on the machine.

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So if the same totals and audit trails were recorded to all the electronic
media, the answer will always be the same.
Want a recount? Press the tally button. Want another? Press it again.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results." -- Benjamin Franklin

Paul Tiger

"Give me ambiguity or give me something else!"