About the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Scanning is complete
The scanning process has been completed. We expect to be releasing the images within a few days. We are now doing preliminary counts on the scanned ballots, and plan to release them once we've had a chance to look over the counts.
Citizens throughout the US are concerned about the legitimacy of machine vote counts. Voting systems that do not provide a paper audit trail require that citizens trust the company that has provided the voting system. Voting systems such as that used in Humboldt County, CA, which use optically scanned paper ballots, do leave an audit trail of all cast ballots.
Our Project aims to provide images of each counted ballot, so that any person or organization wishing to do an independent count will have access to a complete set of ballot images.
