Reply #160

Such a system does not detect even the traditional stuffed ballot box. There are no voters to "check" the stuffed ballots and say they are wrong, and the printouts match the lockbox and totals. All they have to do is put some fake signatures on the polling book (assuming they even check that) so that the number of voters equals the number of ballots)

If one checks upthread, I've tried to show briefly why not only do current auditing systems not work, but no auditing system CAN work. One of the main reasons for this is that a TRUE audit (like the IRS might do) involves checking a filing like a tax return or a ballot against the original sources of information like receipts or the voter him or herself. But, due to the privacy or secrecy of the ballot, no voter can ever have their ballot connected to them, nor be questioned about their ballot, so it is impossible to audit a ballot or an election in the TRUE sense of a good audit because original sources of information can not be checked.