Some communities have AVCB’s responsible for tabulating votes across multiple precincts. Some communities have AVCB’s paired with a single precinct. There can be significant variation in this process from community to community. In Michigan, this system is used in 65 out of 83 counties including large population centers such as Wayne County, the home of Detroit. For the purpose of this discussion, I will focus upon election results transfers using the Dominion Voting System.
The following diagram is an attempt to summarize the process by which our vote tallies proceed from precinct-specific vote tallies to final aggregation of these precinct-based results into the overall results for a given race or ballot measure.
It is time to explore how these results are generated in the era of electronic voting systems. Our elected officials and ballot measures are all certified on the basis of these records, yet how much do you really know about how these election results are generated? No other election record is more important the the election results. Examination of Election Results Chain of Custody In this post, we will perform a deep dive into exactly how much trust you are expected to have in our election system.īefore we explore our required trust levels, it is important to review what is known about the processing of election results with today’s modern electronic voting systems.
The level of trust expected of citizens is much more significant than you may have been lead to believe. There is plenty of testing of vote tabulation machines going on just not testing of the machines responsible for the final election results.ĭid you know that are multiple gaps in the audit trail between the scanning of your ballot by electronic vote tabulators and the posting of election results? INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, GOOD GOVERNANCE, ELECTION EVIDENCEīefore your answer that question, answer the following question.ĭid you know that elections all across America are being certified on the basis of election results provided by vote tabulation machines which have never been tested?ĭon’t get me wrong.
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