10 Years After Bush V. Gore, Recount Laws Database Released
U.S. Newswire › November 02, 2010
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MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just in time for the highly contested mid-term elections, Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN) has created a comprehensive searchable database of state recount laws. The database catalogs and summarizes recount laws for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, allowing users to easily access and compare important features of these diverse and often complex laws.
"The most significant thing we learned is that recount laws are in a dismal state," said CEIMN Director, Mark Halvorson. He noted that only five states require a manual count of paper ballots for all of their recounts and many jurisdictions have no voter verified paper record for their primary voting system. In addition, two states don't have recount laws at all. "Most states simply re-run paper ballots through their optical scan voting machines," he explained. "This may not catch a counting error caused by a faulty scanner, software bug or partially filled in ovals/bubbles that the optical scanners can't detect."See the full content of this document
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10 Years After Bush V. Gore, Recount Laws Database Released
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