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Audit, audit, audit.
Of the ORIGINAL ballots.
There is indication that some optical scan systems can store the ballot information and reprint another ballot- and implications that it's been done and those ballots- not the originals, used for recounts.
That would be the same problem as DRE's with no voter verified paper ballot. If the system recorded the wrong information, it would recreate a 'wrong' ballot.
The more you get into it, the more it looks like you now have to say things like, "recount/audit the orginal, voter verified paper ballots."
I don't know about Sequoia optical scans specifically, but that counting program must be audited. If it's anything like the WinEds program for the DRE's, just walk right in and alter totals.
I'm guessing that yours is central count. Would like to have polling place totals, but with mail in voting, you would have to depend on ballots getting sorted by precincts at the county level, I imagine.
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