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Windham vote auditors point to ballot fold lines as possible source of discrepancies
PEMBROKE, N.H. —
Independent auditors examining vote discrepancies in the 2020 state representative race in Windham are zeroing in on fold lines across ballots as a potential explanation for significant changes in vote tallies from the November machine count and a subsequent hand recount.
The work of closely examining each of Windham's 10,000 ballots from the November 2020 election is expected to last three days, but auditors and volunteers at the secure audit facility in Pembroke could be inching closer to an explanation for the discrepancies.
"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," said independent auditor Mark Lindeman.
Auditors said the scanners could be interpreting the fold lines as a vote when they go through a "vote target," or a candidate's name on the ballot. They said a lot of Windham's ballots appear to have fold lines across the target of a Democratic state representative candidate.
Independent auditors examining vote discrepancies in the 2020 state representative race in Windham are zeroing in on fold lines across ballots as a potential explanation for significant changes in vote tallies from the November machine count and a subsequent hand recount.
The work of closely examining each of Windham's 10,000 ballots from the November 2020 election is expected to last three days, but auditors and volunteers at the secure audit facility in Pembroke could be inching closer to an explanation for the discrepancies.
"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," said independent auditor Mark Lindeman.
Auditors said the scanners could be interpreting the fold lines as a vote when they go through a "vote target," or a candidate's name on the ballot. They said a lot of Windham's ballots appear to have fold lines across the target of a Democratic state representative candidate.
Read the rest at: https://www.wmur.com/article/windham-vote-auditors-point-to-ballot-fold-lines-as-possible-source-of-discrepancies/36452727