In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
The most salient part of the article:
When the recount takes place Monday only absentee ballots will be tallied again and checked for errors. But they only account for about 17% of the total vote in the runoff race. Absentee ballots are mailed in and are the only auditable paper trail under Louisiana’s current voting system.They can only recount absentee ballots?
That’s something that should really be fixed
Edit: Being able to audit the full process is important for preserving transparency in elections.
I thought the same thing. I went looking and found a whole trail of articles on it. Louisiana actually tried in years past, but internal state politics and bid rigging killed their efforts.
Louisiana is possibly the most corrupt state in the entire country, I don’t think they’d ever even come close to changing that
John Oliver talks about electronic voting machines and their impact, pre-2020.
https://youtu.be/svEuG_ekNT0?feature=shared