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

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:27:07PM -0700, Evan Daniel Ravitz 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.

Yup - the law is bad on this point, but it is not as bad as the rule.
And the "stink test" should apply pretty well here to actual practice.

-Neal