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I assume you mean the
Election Day SOVC vs. the recount SOVC? I guess what I’m getting
at is this – in the numerous Florida recounts we had many situations where the
Ballot Accounting Forms and Accu Vote tapes did not match. When we reprocessed the ballots at the precinct
level, we did come up with again a
third differentiating number of ballots cast in some precincts and overall. Every one of these situations was explained
by either mishandling of jammed ballots to the increase or decrease of ballots
cast, voter walkouts or marginal marks in the race(s). I think it’s important to remember that
one purpose of the recount is to find mishandled and marginally marked ballots
from election day. That’s a
positive. Spun the right way changes in the count
are not only expected, but are explainable and can add legitimacy to our
accuracy. -----Original Message----- Hi John Thanks for showing an interest. The
SOVC will show the changes Accu-Vote by Accu-Vote. Greg -----
Original Message -----
To: support@gesn.com Sent: December 8, 2000 10:58
AM Subject: RE:
Hamilton Recount - Ward 9 Councillor Is a
change of six ballots in seven precincts when 7K plus ballots were counted
necessarily dropped ballots when you factor in operator/poll worker error in
handling jammed ballots? -----Original Message----- Eight
Accu-Votes were used in Ward 9. One Advance Poll and seven election day
polls. The
8 Accu-Votes in Ward 9 counted 7,652 ballots with 159 Blank Voted on
election day. Ballot boxes sealed. The
same 8 Accu-Votes counted 7,658 ballots with 119 Blank Voted for the
Recount. The
first place candidate received 22 additional votes, second
place candidate increased by 14 votes and
third place increased by 10 votes. Although
the winner remained, the difference increased from 64 votes to 72 votes. Conclusion
- There were 6 dropped ballots and 46 votes not counted on election day
that were subsequently counted when the race was isolated. The
ovals were separate and red, not thick. Pens
were Sanford Express Medium tip. They should have been bold tip. Ballots
were cut showing timing marks in four corners. There were some that were
not cut correctly and were culled before the election. Scary
stuff.
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