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Founder and President of US Count Votes, dba The National Election Data Archive and volunteer for honest, accurately counted elections since 2003. Masters degree in mathematics with emphasis on computer science. Has written numerous academic and scientific papers with computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians on election integrity topics, inluding how to calculate minimum manual audit amounts necessary to ensure election outcome integrity.
Kathy DoppFounder and President of US Count Votes, dba The National Election Data Archive and volunteer for honest, accurately counted elections since 2003. Masters degree in mathematics with emphasis on computer science. Has written numerous academic and scientific papers with computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians on election integrity topics, inluding how to calculate minimum manual audit amounts necessary to ensure election outcome integrity.

Great Patricia - John Gideon & I Investigated NV's "Audits"

FYI,

Nevada's SOS claims that NV conducted audits of the VVPATs and found a 100% match between paper and electronic counts.

John Gideon and I independently called county election officials to see what audit procedures they followed and we both found, at least with the officials we managed to speak with, that no manual counts of the VVPATs were actually done, and rather that the alledged "audits" involved printing out the contents of the electronic memory cards and then comparing the printouts with the vote counts.

In other words, NV tested the voting machine print programs and found that the print programs indeed did work, and then wrongly claimed that their "audit" found a perfect match between paper and electronic records.

This may not have been the case in all counties, but the NV county officials I spoke with said that they sealed the VVPATs and never looked at them.

Good luck on your efforts.

Kathy

by Kathy Dopp (33 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 49 comments) on Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 4:23:26 PM