Recounts? We Don't Need No Stinking Recounts!

February 13, 2004

Since coming up with a standard for recounting ballots last time worked so well for Florida, it's a good thing that electronic voting will eliminate those problems:

Florida law requires a manual recount of overvotes where too many candidates were chosen, and undervotes where no candidate was chosen in elections where the margin of victory is one-quarter of one percent of the vote.

But because the law states that the purpose of a recount is to determine whether there was a "clear indication on the ballot that the voter has made a definite choice," there is no need to review touchscreen ballots, Ed Kast, director of the Division of Elections

It's a good thing that these machines don't have independently verifiable paper trails, either. We wouldn't want democracy to break out during an election in Florida.

(via Kos)

Posted by Andrew Raff at February 13, 2004 2:52 PM