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2016 Postmortem

Pathwalker

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5. Yep. Michigan law requires all recounts to be done by hand.

Reply to Madam45for2923 (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 30, 2016, 01:09 PM

Nov 2016

No machine counts. There's video of this Professor proving how easily these machines are hacked - which is why I'm glad Michigan requires the ballots to be hand counted in front of witnesses.

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Security Experts Back Up Jill Stein's Demand for Manual Recount [View all] womanofthehills Nov 2016 OP

Makes NO sense to put the ballots Through the same machines. damn. riversedge Nov 2016 #1

does Wisconsin use optical scan machines? gejohnston Nov 2016 #2

J. Alex Halderman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Michigan Madam45for2923 Nov 2016 #3

Yep. Michigan law requires all recounts to be done by hand. Pathwalker Nov 2016 #5

thanks for the interesting read gejohnston Nov 2016 #6

Nothing to see here triron Nov 2016 #4