Well, well, this is interesting.
Serial numbers missing between original, duplicate ballots in Arizona election audit: official
"We are struggling as to how we're going to be able to match up" ballots that couldn't be read by machines, Ken Bennett says.
justthenews.com
EXCERPT:
The liaison between Senate Republicans who authorized the audit and county officials told a hearing Tuesday that serial numbers were missing on damaged ballots that were duplicated so they could be read by vote tabulation machines.
But he has found many batches of damaged ballots without the serial numbers that are on the duplicates, violating state law.
Asked by Fann if Maricopa County could assist in that effort, Bennett said county officials have made clear to him several times they wouldn't work with any of the auditors the Senate Republicans hired. He will ask for their help directly, Bennett said.
lol. maybe they should have hired a company that actually knows something about the topic.
I don't know. This doesn't sound good. You'd think the former SoS would know what he's doing, though, and he says they're not finding the original damaged ballots with a corresponding serial #. Of course, it's possible it's just sloppy record keeping, not fraud, since if the original number of damaged ballots is the same as the copied ballots, there is no problem as far as number of votes go. But if they don't match up in the end, there could be something wrong there.
seems impossible.
First, the video i saw said that on the forms, the paperwork forms, for damaged ballots being duplicated, some of the forms did not list the serial number for the ballot and duplicate ballot....that was the complaint that I saw....
The original damaged absentee ballots, most are ballots from US Citizens overseas /military because a new program allows them to print their own ballots....well, the paper thickness of a copy machine printed ballot is thinner, and the ballot feeding machines reject them.... So they have to be duplicated. Many big cities have machines that can do this with a machine that stamps the same serial number on the damaged and duplicate ballots, after is is checked in a computer screen by several trained workers that the dup!I care matches the original, then this machine,prints the dup ballot, stamps serial on both, then the original damaged ballot is stored, the dupe goes on to be counted.
Hand changing is similar, each vote counting station has a dem, repub, indie, trained for this job to manually create a ballot dup!icate....all three checked it, to verify it was an accurate duplicate, given the same identifier number on both,and the original damaged ballot is stored...For 22 months.
The duplicate ballots and original damaged ballots can be matchedup, if need be.... By process of elimination if parts of the serial numbers are missing.... Match up the ones you have full numbers of, then the few you don't will match up with those left the the partial serial number and how the y voted.
Here, this explains duplicate ballots and process.
A primer on what exactly ballot duplication technology is and how it works for local election offices in the United States.
ovi.csg.org
Part one of the OVI series on ballot duplication. We talk about what exactly ballot duplication is, why election officals conduct it, and why it matters.
ovi.csg.org