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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 12:49 PM
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2 Arizona Counties to Audit Elections, But the Results Won't Count

Senate OKs measure to ensure accuracy of electronic voting

By Howard Fischer

Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.17.2006

PHOENIX — State senators Thursday approved procedures to make sure electronic machines count each Arizonan's vote accurately.

Procedures given preliminary approval require an "audit" of 10 randomly selected voting precincts in both Pima and Maricopa counties each election. In each precinct, the ballots would be examined and counted by hand.

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No matter what the audits show, however, the original machine-counted results would remain official, and an election could not be overturned.

Huppenthal said the audit would still serve a purpose by identifying discrepancies and paving the way for examining the software in the machines used to see whether there was evidence of tampering.

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http://www.azstarnet.com/news/120464
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RufusEarl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 12:58 PM
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1. This is a good thing!
we need more proof that proves our point, that E-voting machines are corrupt.
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 01:08 PM
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2. The republican controlled state legislature in AZ
serves to prove once again that republicans don't give a crap about democracy.
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 01:08 AM
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3. I suppose the voting machines are
going to pick the 10 voting precincts to do the hand recount.

All they have to do is make the ten precincts that get a Hand Count, match the Machine count. Then they have a future selling point for their machines , but if the hand count does not match the machines count. They can Abort the sales pitch idea and go with all the other excuses as to why the totals didn't match.

Just a thought.
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