the clerk is a Pub and staff prevent tampering.
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Are they hand counted or ran thru a machine for tallying?
The Dominion machines are programmed for each county in the county clerks office. For each precinct before the election the programmed machines are fed a premarked set of 167 ballots. The ballots are sent through the tabulators and the results compared with the ballot set. The machines are then sealed. After the election random precincts are selected and the ballots are hand counted and compared with the machine tabulation. Again this is Lea County and the Dominion machines are not connected to the internet.
But in other so-called progressive Dem counties I suppose there could be tampering with the programing especially if programming is done without Pub observers. It’s up to the state Pub party to observe and make sure that programming is done properly. Just having a so-called “independent” auditor verify accuracy won’t cut it in my book.