Election audits come down to dice
Kim Komando Daily Tech Update

Election audits come down to dice

B1IntermediateNovember 3, 20267 min
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It’s Election Day! After all the high-tech vote counting, some states pick ballots to audit by rolling 10-sided dice in public. I’ll explain how it works. Plus, Joe says his two-word trick ends robocalls nine times out of 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's election day, and after all the sometimes controversial computerized high-tech devices counting our votes tonight, things could still come down to, believe it or not, a roll of the dice. When election counts are challenged or extremely close, a random selection of ballots will

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often be chosen for an audit. But which ones? In some states, officials roll special 10-sided dice in public to build a random number at least 20 digits long.

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That long number then feeds the software that selects the actual original paper ballots for the audit. So after all the sophisticated high-tech systems, counting our votes can come down to one of humanity's oldest tools, a 12,000-year random number generator.

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