Reply #23: Hand counts are much more reliable [View All]

Although as you state "Everyone knows that election theft is possible with 100% hand counts", so everyone knows that election theft is possible with ANY type of voting system. As Chuck Herrin says, whenever you have humans involved you will have cheating and/or errors. Chuck, by the way, just wrote that he is totally behind hand counted paper ballots.

But does everyone also know that hand counted paper ballots have been shown to be far more accurate, less expensive, and less easy to cheat with on any sort of grand scale?

I don't believe, as you say, that EDA is saying audits are totally useless. Their argument is that we need such a large audit to ensure any kind of accuracy we may as well hand count the races in the first place. Thus, their recommendation for a 10% audit of all precincts they view as an "exit strategy".

As for how many Americans prefer hand counted paper ballots I have seen some polls that suggest the majority do, or at least that the majority do not want their votes counted on secretly coded machines manufactured by partisan companies like Diebold and ES&S.