Given the potential shit storm that could erupt on the basis of what the Audit reveals, it would be safe to say that the auditors are double and triple checking every counting record to confirm. The recount aspect was over a week or so ago, and that ran long due to the auditors losing the workspace for ten days or so to preecisting reservations of the building. the forensic paper audit is underway and the audit of the Braille version of the ballots requires multiple Braille skilled readers for confirmation. What ever the outcome, it has to be bullet proof fact, indisputable. Either way it will be interesting.
Given the number of machines and people involved in running an legitimate, fair, election, results should be available within hours.
Now take smaller number of people that to inspect each ballot, check it vs actual voter rolls, death records, public records, addresses, etc, double, triple check it and the process takes a while especially if there is fraud.
I've done election roll audits, (not ballot audits), in another state and it's hard, boring work that requires attention to detail. (Yes, we found widespread fraud, it was a blue county...)
There's a reason inaugurations weren't till April initially. Both for a proper count and report from each state, and for the elected person to relocate to DC.
OP proceeds from the assumption that every ballot is counted on election night. It's not. Lets take a normal election, not 2020. Take a state like Kansas, which leans GOP. Polls close election night at 7pm.
As the county results roll in a few hours later, Republican X takes the lead....then the urban counties report in...he loses some of his lead but not all of it....more urban counties roll in....80% of the state has reported their counts by midnight and Republican has 60-40 lead...it is statistically impossible for the remaining 20% of counties to have such high numbers toward the Democrat that the 60-40 lead is lost, at most it might go down somewhat. At that point, they call the state. Actual counting of every ballot takes a while, usually a few days.
What 2020 did, was they stopped the count, and the Democrats made sure that their urban counties made up the difference of the early reporting Trump leaning counties...and kept counting over the course of a week until they had their victory.
It’s not a recount, it’s an audit.
Given the potential shit storm that could erupt on the basis of what the Audit reveals, it would be safe to say that the auditors are double and triple checking every counting record to confirm. The recount aspect was over a week or so ago, and that ran long due to the auditors losing the workspace for ten days or so to preecisting reservations of the building. the forensic paper audit is underway and the audit of the Braille version of the ballots requires multiple Braille skilled readers for confirmation. What ever the outcome, it has to be bullet proof fact, indisputable. Either way it will be interesting.
Yeppppp
Surprised this question hasn’t come up more
How. is. it. taking. this. long.
How could it have been remotely close to done in November in the past if it’s taking months to do this one?
u/ghost_of_aswartz Or ellections are absolute fake - or using statistics to predict the results.Or both.
Elections are easy, audits aren't.
Given the number of machines and people involved in running an legitimate, fair, election, results should be available within hours.
Now take smaller number of people that to inspect each ballot, check it vs actual voter rolls, death records, public records, addresses, etc, double, triple check it and the process takes a while especially if there is fraud.
I've done election roll audits, (not ballot audits), in another state and it's hard, boring work that requires attention to detail. (Yes, we found widespread fraud, it was a blue county...)
There's a reason inaugurations weren't till April initially. Both for a proper count and report from each state, and for the elected person to relocate to DC.
OP proceeds from the assumption that every ballot is counted on election night. It's not. Lets take a normal election, not 2020. Take a state like Kansas, which leans GOP. Polls close election night at 7pm.
As the county results roll in a few hours later, Republican X takes the lead....then the urban counties report in...he loses some of his lead but not all of it....more urban counties roll in....80% of the state has reported their counts by midnight and Republican has 60-40 lead...it is statistically impossible for the remaining 20% of counties to have such high numbers toward the Democrat that the 60-40 lead is lost, at most it might go down somewhat. At that point, they call the state. Actual counting of every ballot takes a while, usually a few days.
What 2020 did, was they stopped the count, and the Democrats made sure that their urban counties made up the difference of the early reporting Trump leaning counties...and kept counting over the course of a week until they had their victory.
So you think that all former elections ever were illegitimate because it didn't take a year to count all votes?
Might have gone faster if they hired a company that has... you know... actually done an audit before.