startribune.com - 11/11/2008
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The postelection audit isn't a recount - but it looks like one. And it may serve as a dress rehearsal for the biggest recount ever in Minnesota.
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minnesotarecount.com - 11/11/2008
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A Pre-Count for the Coleman-Franken Recount
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The Minneapolis Star Tribune assesses how the postelection audit isn't a recount but may well serve as a dress rehearsal for the biggest one ever in Minnesota. ...
Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... This distinction between machine error and voter error happens to be particularly helpful to us because the state of Minnesota periodically conducts an audit of its optical scanning systems. This audit is designed to detect the incidence of machine error and machine error only; cases of voter error are explicitly disregarded by the audit. ...
More Wingnut propaganda in the Minnesota Senate race
HorsesAss.Org —
... Optical scan machines do make mistakes. Minnesota estimates this error rate after each election by conducting audits in about 5% of precincts. The 2006 results gave a rate of 53 errors in 94,073 votes cast. Indeed, in Ramsey County yesterday, the machine audit found Franken gaining one vote out of 7,700 counted. ...
Nate Silver: Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
The Latest on Air America —
... not record the vote. These votes can be thought of as cases of machine error (although, in some subset of cases, they may consist of instances where a voter used a nonreadable marking device such as a dull pencil). The other two-thirds of cases are various forms of voter error , such as a voter circling a candidate's name rather than filling in his oval. This distinction between machine error and voter error happens to be particularly helpful to us because the state of Minnesota periodically conducts an audit of its optical scanning systems. This audit is designed to ...
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