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| New Hampshire Auditors Say Vote Discrepancies Largely Caused by Ballot Fold Effect |
| 2021-05-25 |
| [Epoch Times] Election auditors Windham, New Hampshire, are saying that some of their latest findings are "large enough to account for discrepancies" in the Nov. 3 election results for four state representative seats. Auditors said they found "experimental confirmation that if the contest is undervoted, a fold through a vote target can create a vote." "Something we strongly suspect at this juncture, based on various evidence, is that in some cases, fold lines are being interpreted by the scanners as valid votes," Mark Lindeman, who is part of the audit team, told WMUR. Harri Hursti, another auditor, wrote on Twitter that testing proved folded ballots were misinterpreted by machines. "Test decks proved that foldings across a vote targets is misinterpreted as additional phantom votes or subtracts votes due to false overvotes," he wrote in a post. The audit team said that more issues could be involved besides folded ballots being misinterpreted. "The fold effect is large enough to account for discrepancies, but might not be all that’s going on," the team said on Twitter on May 22, adding that "75 folded ballots voted straight Republican. Only 48 votes recorded for them. Folds generated overvotes. This is machine used on Election Day [for] most absentee ballots." Another machine was found to have "an even more dramatic problem" by the auditors, who said that only 28 percent of the votes for Republican candidates were counted. "The work is not completed yet. While the folding seems to be a strong contributor it clearly is not the only factor," Hursti said on Sunday. "For example: We have observed vastly different error rates on two machines processing the same ballots. Work continues." Related: Windham: 2021-05-23 Windham New Hampshire Ballot Audit Finds Folded Ballots Generated False Results Windham: 2021-05-20 An election audit in New Hampshire may be the pebble that diverts the stream Windham: 2021-05-15 Election audit in small New Hampshire town could have implications for 2020 results statewide |
| Posted by:Hupegum Sperelet9591 |
| #3 Any bets on how many folds go thru Democrats selections verses Republican? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-25 07:57 |
| #2 this seems like something that wouldve been thought about and planned for in a machine that reads paper ballots. paper does get folded quite often. of course, this could've been a feature, not a bug. or maybe just the result of awarding a contract to the lowest bidder. |
| Posted by: Retard Strength 2021-05-25 07:53 |
| #1 All these machines suck. Next time, can we just toss beans in a jar? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-05-25 00:51 |