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In reply to the discussion: Let's say you think this past election was rigged. [View all]aggiesal
(9,909 posts)Of course it will.
If no vote erasure or vote flips, the hand count would match the ballot reader.
Before ballot readers like ES&S & Diebold, all ballots were counted by hand.
The precinct workers would count the ballots until about 1 - 2 am and post the precinct results, so voters could see how the precinct voted. Then they would send the ballots to the Registrar office. No counting was done at the Registrar's office, they just went by the precinct numbers and the election was determined way before 6am.
If they do that now, when they run the ballots through the readers, and they find a numbers discrepancy, handcount would happen a second time and ballot read a second time If the discrepancy still remains the handcount would have precedence.
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