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Amid continuing concerns about the validity of the results, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics still hasn't certified the results of the Sept. 9 primary election. New pre-certified results were released on Sept. 20, and today, the board released its final post election audit report. You can download the nine-page PDF for yourself. According to the report, the audit consisted of four three-member teams, each reviewing the ballots of randomly selected precincts, which were precincts 13, 21, 22 and 44. None of the audited precincts showed differences between manual recounts and voting machine results of more than one or two votes in any given race, though there were small inconsistencies between hand counts in two of the precincts.
Despite the audit results, the BOEE has decided to conduct a manual recount of precinct #141, the Reeves Center polling place that was originally brought under scrutiny in the immediate wake of the questionable early vote tallies. The Post reports that the board put off certifying the results earlier today in order to perform this additional recount this afternoon. We're also still waiting on the BOEE to release its complete report on the investigation into the faulty cartridge from precinct #141.
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Well, SOMEthing weird was going on at the Reeves Center on September 9. When my wife went to vote in the morning, she was told that:
1) she couldn't vote (she was registered independent despite registering as a Democrat)
2) But I (her husband) was on the rolls.
Fast forward to me going in to vote after work. Apparently now I *wasn't* in the book - the same book they showed my wife in the morning? - despite voting in the February primaries. I went to fill out a special ballot, and the person at that table (a neighbor who knew me and could vouch) checked for my registration on her PDA thingie and I was in there. But because I wasn't in the binder they had at the main registration table, I still had to fill out a special ballot.
I was able to vote, and the place was pretty empty so it wasn't a hassle, but I was stuck wondering:
- what if this happens in November? what if it wasn't my neighbor or someone else who knew me checking up on me? what if I didn't have time to wait in a long line?
If they can fuck this up for a (relatively low-turnout) local primary, and a voter who's voted at that location several times and has a current registration card on their person, along with plenty of other photo ID, the fuckup for a presidential election, with potentially a lot of newly-registered voters could be epic.