About the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project.
The election of November 2013 had very low turnout, but a little bit of excitement was caused by a flip in the results of one close race between election night and the first post-election update.
We scanned the ballots and performed an independent count of the election using the most recent version of TEVS (ISO image and signature available via links at humetp.org) and the TEVS results were virtually identical to the county's second post-election update, varying by zero to three votes over each race, out of 14 thousand ballots cast.
Images are available from the Humboldt County Elections Office.
The complete image set, with a copy of the TEVS ISO, is also available on a 16 gig memory stick for $25. Please email mjtrac at email provider gmail dot com if interested.
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.