Reply #76: And maybe, if they played their cards right, they could have gotten [View All]

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a 10% random audit for only $13,000! With a 4% margin in a race this size that would probably have been enough to detect any outcome-affecting fraud. In any case, the precise sample size could have been calculated.

We should be trying to get elections officials "used to" auditing elections, but the only ballots hand counted in this race so far were the messily 1%, leaving the outcome uncertain.

Plaintiffs also should have asked to see Ballot Definition Programming which could have easily been used to rig the machines, although the 10% audit would probably detect that too as long, as the voters actually verified their paper records.

Plaintiffs also should have hired an Election Lawyer right away instead of waiting until after the swearing in.

I think what we've learned from this is that we have to be a LOT more organized.