Voting machines provide accurate election results, fact-checkers report
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Voting machines provide accurate election results, fact-checkers report
Voting systems undergo hardware and software testing to ensure they produce accurate results and comply with state and federal requirements, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Election experts say that post-election audits confirm ballot tabulating machines are highly accurate.
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Voting machines provide accurate election results, fact-checkers report
What you need to know
- Post-election audits, including those held in Maricopa County, Arizona, indicate election machines perform accurately
- There are safeguards in place for voting software and ballots issues, experts say
- There is no evidence Dominion Voting Systems machines changed or deleted votes in 2020, fact-checkers report
"Before use in elections, voting systems undergo hardware and software testing to ensure they are consistent with state and/or federal requirements. Under these programs, voting system manufacturers submit systems to undergo testing and review by an accredited laboratory or state testers. This testing is designed to check that systems function as designed and meet applicable state and/or federal requirements or standards for accuracy, privacy and accessibility." – CISA
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical infrastructure." — cisa.gov
With the midterms ahead, a look at the false claims about electronic voting that spread after the 2020 election:
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Dominion Voting Systems “deleted” or “switched” large numbers of his votes. That’s not true:
This article provides information and context on how voter fraud in the U.S. is not a “widespread” issue as some online commentators claim, but made exceedingly rare by existing safeguards https://reut.rs/3aw6lRH
“Already, states and counties typically conduct pre-election accuracy tests. Many places also conduct post-election audits of sample batches of ballots, counting them by hand and comparing those results to the machine tally. In California, the law requires larger jurisdictions set aside multiple days to hand-count roughly 1 percent of ballots. The results of such reviews in 2020 showed machines performed accurately.” – The Washington Post
Ryan Teague Beckwith is a political reporter at Bloomberg.
There are safeguards in place for voting software and ballots issues, experts say
"The vast majority of votes cast in this election will be cast on paper ballots or using machines that produce a paper audit trail, which allow for tabulation audits to be conducted from the paper record in the event any issues emerge with the voting system software, audit logs, or tabulation." – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
What issues might legislators need to address related to post-election #audits?
Are audits required? Are they voluntary?
What type of equipment is used?
How many races will the audit include?
Full Q & A: https://bit.ly/36mBalm | #Election2019 | #NCSLelections
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"[Voting machine errors] do happen, though — people mark ballots incorrectly, or ink smudges confuse scanners — and the best practice is to set machines to reject those ballots so humans can check what voters really intended. Voters at precinct polling places get to fix such problems themselves — they’re usually caught when the ballot is scanned right after it’s cast. If they’re not, they’re found during hand recounts in close races." – The Washington Post
Problems in DeKalb County's primary election were the result of a mistake in programming the machines for a single countywide seat on the Democratic side of the ticket, Georgia officials confirm
Fact Check: Dominion Machine 'Manipulation' Was NOT Responsible For 2022 Primary Election Problems In DeKalb County, Georgia -- It Was Computer Programming Error By State
"The Georgia secretary of state's office says it was a mistake in programming the machines for a single countywide seat on the Democratic side of the ticket, not in the machines themselves." — Lead Stories
Audits held in Maricopa County, Arizona, following the 2020 general election found no problems with voting equipment
Audits of ballots and voting equipment found no problems with the 2020 results in Maricopa County. But debunked claims about voter fraud are flowing again on social media amid a Republican-led audit in Maricopa.
Some pointed to a short-lived counting error in a small, Republican-leaning Michigan county as evidence that Dominion machines were designed to flip votes.
But it was a human error that was quickly amended, and not a machine problem.
A hand recount of ballots in that Michigan county confirmed the Dominion results. Hand counts in several disputed counties, including in Arizona and Georgia, also affirmed machine tabulator results.
We encountered multiple false claims about electronic voting machine companies – such as the suggestion they had been subject to raids, or had switched votes https://reut.rs/3mi0RdA 3/4