counts to audit than for large counties with many voting machines.
(The actual number of vote counts that need to be audited are more
similar across diverse counties than are the audit percentages.)
3. A 1% or 2% audit is entirely inadequate when margins between
candidates become at all close (say under 10%). This new method
should replace those audit statutes.
4. This method can replace existing state election laws that require
100% hand-recounts only for close races because the hand-count
percentage automatically adjusts to the margins between candidates,
whatever they are.
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All American patriots agree that vote miscounts should never put the
wrong candidate into office. Therefore, this new method for
calculating the number of vote counts to audit in any election and
race is the correct way to audit all elections and should be adopted
nationwide, replacing systems of 1% state-wide audits such as
California and a few other states currently use.
To clarify my earlier email, another audit method using weaker
statistical procedures, however, will be needed to audit some poorly
designed central count optical scan systems that process mail-in,
overseas, absentee, and military ballots but provide no method for
breaking counts down by precincts. Good central count optical scan
systems like those of Washington State and Oregon can certainly follow
these new procedures recommended now by NEDA and use NEDA's
AuditCalculator.xls spreadsheet.
I am so very excited that America now has a new method for correctly
calculating AUDIT PERCENTAGES to ensure that NO VOTE MISCOUNTS WILL
ALTER ANY ELECTION RESULTS IN ANY RACE in the future!
I have come to understand in the last week, as a result of doing these
mathematical calculations, that a simple 1% or 2% or even 5% audit
procedure is entirely inadequate to meet the needs of ensuring U.S.
election integrity. Audit percentages must be determined by the
requirement to ensure that only correctly elected candidates are sworn
into office following every U.S. election in every race.
You can quote me on that!
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very much need funding to hire an office assistant and a computer
programmer, or a volunteer office assistant. NEDA also needs either
funding or volunteer attorneys to help craft open records request
letters that are specific to each state's open records laws in order
to obtain the detailed vote count data to uncover vote miscounts in
jurisdictions that conduct no independent audits, some of which use
inauditable voting systems. Please help us if you can.
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Please excuse my excited babbling over this new discovery of a
mathematical method to ensure vote count integrity in every race in
every election. What an election nerd I am!
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