The biggest surprise from the post-election count and re-count business is how many stories show a lack of effective auditing. You can’t just collect and count votes. You have to have ways to verify that you’re getting the right numbers. Just as we have checks and balances in our government, we need checks and balances in our vote counting. <\/p>\n
This story<\/a> is about a small number of votes, but it illustrates the principle. <\/p>\n Before we do this again, I want an army of accountants to review our voting and vote-counting procedures to be sure we have the means in place to verify the counts are correct and add up. This seems like a perfect job for the council of governors. <\/p>\n As the quote widely attributed to Stalin goes, “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biggest surprise from the post-election count and re-count business is how many stories show a lack of effective auditing. You can’t just collect and count votes. You have to have ways to verify that you’re getting the right numbers. Just as we have checks and balances in our government, we need checks and balances … Continue reading “Call in the accountants”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}