Calls for Janice Winfrey to resign as city clerk grow - 60% of Detroit precints wrong

[Lowell]

And assuming paper ballots are how we vote, shouldn't one's job as the precinct manager be to ensure that the total quantity of the ballots equals the totals per the machine, with any variances [[e.g. jammed ballot in machine) identified before going home for the night. I mean - what job is more simple that counting a stack of paper? And we can't even do that...

Split tickets can take a lot of time in a hand count. An optical scanner makes sense but there needs to be a procedure for regular random sampling [like hand counting say 50 random ballots then scanning them] to insure the optical scanner is tallying correctly. And in no way should it be networked.

[BankruptcyGuy]

Split tickets can take a lot of time in a hand count. An optical scanner makes sense but there needs to be a procedure for regular random sampling [like hand counting say 50 random ballots then scanning them] to insure the optical scanner is tallying correctly. And in no way should it be networked.

I believe they run a battery of tests before the election to make sure the machines are functioning. And I know they are not networked.