(05-18-2021 12:14 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Windham, NH has been conducting an audit of local races and has discovered that Republican candidates have consistently been shorted votes while Democratic candidates are not.

Due to this, the audit has broadened its scope to review the senate races.

Windham Audit Team Will Look at New Hampshire US Senate Race This Week — After Finding Local GOP Candidates Consistently Shorted Votes

Quote:The totals from the Windham machines cannot be replicated. Only the hand recounts are reliable. And the machines are shorting Republicans in Windham at a consistent rate while Democrat results are barely impacted by the machines.

Quote:What the recount showed was that when ballots were fed through all four machines this past week, one machine (Machine #2) reliably and repeatedly shorted each of the 4 Republican candidates roughly the same amount – 55 votes (Lynn), 54 (McMahon), 53 (Soti) and 53 votes (Griffin) compared to the results from the other machines. These audit-repeated machine counts are also different from those machine-generated counts on Nov. 3rd by 281 votes (Lynn), 274 (Soti), 276 (McMahon), and 279 votes (Griffin).

Quote:The fact that these machines do not agree with each other and have such a wide variation amongst the four just for the repeat audit machine count alone, means that the hand recount totals from Nov. 12th are likely to be the only accurate tally.

Dude, you should stop relying on Gateway Pundit. My God.

Quote:Auditors said that could explain why St. Laurent lost 99 votes in the hand recount last year, while Republican candidates gained votes.

Also, it appears that it's likely a pretty innocent explanation.

Quote:"Something we strongly suspect at this juncture, based on various evidence, is that in some cases, fold lines are being interpreted by the scanners as valid votes," said independent auditor Mark Lindeman.

Auditors said the scanners could be interpreting the fold lines as a vote when they go through a "vote target," or a candidate's name on the ballot. They said a lot of Windham's ballots appear to have fold lines across the target of a Democratic state representative candidate.

"Wherever the fold happened to be was, I guess, most commonly through my name," said the candidate, Kristi St. Laurent.

The hypothesis will be tested extensively, but auditors said the fold line issue might not be isolated to just Windham's machines.

"Throughout New Hampshire, you're using the same voting machines, the AccuVote, and in principle, it could be an issue," Stark said. "It really depends where the folds are in relationship to the vote targets."

Windham vote auditors point to ballot fold lines as possible source of discrepancies