Re: Post-Election Audit Rule is out of compliance with the law

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Neal McBurnett wrote:

> 2) The rule does not call for a "specified percentage" of the ballots
> to be counted, as required by law.  Rather, it calls for a tally of a
> maximum of an absolute number of ballots: 100.  For all other
> equipment, the goal of the statute is to audit about one percent of
> the ballots.  Looking at only 100 ballots would be perhaps a tenth of
> a percent of a common turnout in Boulder - totally inadequate.

So the law says they must recount a "specified percentage" or does the 
law specify the percentage? If the former, it's meaningless.

Evan