The fold effect is large enough to account for discrepancies, but might not be all that’s going on. 75 folded ballots voted straight Republican. Only 48 votes recorded for them. Folds generated overvotes. This is machine used on Election Day 4 most absentee ballots #NHPolitics
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It’s a “vote for up to n out of m”situation, so depending on how many the voter filled in, you can get an extra vote in or invalidate the whole contest (over vote) if the false vote brings the total to n+1, I believe.
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Definitely on the older side. The equipment was designed more than 20 years ago, and according to the SOS, some towns bought their machines as far as 1996. It's 1 reason why I'm glad that one of the Auditors is who has deep knowledge of this equipment.
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This tech was state-of-the-art in 1983(the year I was born). Everyone uses digital scanners now that are thousands of times more accurate than these. Not sure why NH still uses them. Ironically, these machines were a drastic improvement historically compared to hand rallies.
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#1 - The fold would go the entire ballot and through off all the races.
#2 There was no overvote. Each of the 4 candidates got 48 votes recorded and 27 rejected. 27x4 candidates = 108 (not overvotes but rejected) Impossible that it would be the exact same for each candidate.
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This mechanism *always* subtracts same amount from the 4 candidates the voter selected. The fold is interpreted as a filled oval. That creates an “overvote” so none of the 4 deliberate votes in that contest counts. Not a coincidence all lost the same number. It’s how it works.
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