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Edited on Wed Jan-16-08 11:02 PM by TwoSparkles
I obviously don't have any understanding of how these voting machines work, so my questions are probably flawed. However, I would appreciate any information about how exactly fraud would be detected, in this recount--if it indeed happened.
If NH voters went in and filled out a ballot and put the ballot in a Diebold machine, the machine reads it--correct? Then the machines tabulate the results.
So, they're counting the paper ballots in which people filled in ovals or wrote in their choices, is that correct?
So, NH has in their possession, the initial ballots that people put into the machines? Are we assured that the people who had these ballots in their possession didn't change them in any way?
Are the voters' names on the ballots (which could be used to fact check the voters' votes)?
So---when the ballots are counted--if the machine counts are different from the hand counts--we will know that the machines screwed up, correct?
Does anyone know what happens if the hand counts are different? Does the official election result change--if a hand count demonstrates that the vote is different? For example, if it was demonstrated by the handcount that Edwards received 42 percent of the vote--would there need to be a lawsuit to settle this and give him the delegates? Or would a new winner automatically be declared, based on the handcount?
Thanks for bearing with my questions.
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