re: I always assumed elections were regularly audited

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Nah, the "audits" that happen are simple recounts. They pass them off as appropriate substitutes because we never have full audits of our elections. Recounts assume the original votes were legitimate. Audits are performed to make sure that assumption is true.

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Oh I know the drill. I have to participate in audits of my employer on a regular basis, mainly around security and facility stuff, and some data protection things. It blows my mind that elections didn't already go through something like this.

Seriously, every election you hear about hijinks here and there, generally low level stuff, how did/do they find those hijinks without some kind of audit process?