Florida Election software Flips Vote: Losers Certified as Winners

[garybeck]

170. I agree, but...

the sad truth is, if our goal is to get rid of the machines it just aint going to happen any time soon in vermont.

the next best thing, in my mind, is to vastly improve the audits. I believe there are good audits and bad audits.

Currently we have bad audits. we only follow 3 of the 9 recommendations. there's a huge array of ways that fraud or glitches would not be identified under the current system.

If we improve the audits and follow all 9 recommendations, we can vastly improve the chances that fraud or error would be found. For example, with risk-limiting audits, larger samples are taken under circumstances that require such. So the lame 2% rule would be improved. Also, the recommendation is that ALL races are audited, not just some. AND, another of the recommendations is that the audit MUST be conducted before the election results are certified.

So I believe if we follow all 9 of those recommendations, we'll be MUCH better off than we are now, and we'd have a MUCH better chance of detecting fraud or error.

and since we have a zero chance of getting rid of the machines, it is a much better way of spending our efforts, to improve the audits, than to flatly say just get rid of the machines.

that's where we're at anyway,,,, up here in Vermont.

cheers,
gary