@mad_liberals - Mad Liberals

I had several comments in the last month asking how I'm finding the doubled ballots. I just found one of the most interesting cases yet that has me quite baffled. My first step is to convert the voter's candidates to a 'signature' string that makes a semi-unique signature. Next, I compare how many occurrences of this signature appears and record it into the second column. Thankfully a lot of these are showing an occurrence of 2, meaning that this ballot signature is quite unique and only shows up twice in all ballots cast. Then I compare this occurrence number to the recount. if the number of occurrences match both the count and recount, then I filter out that ballot. Any remaining ballots are considered to be an 'aberration' and needs to be visually inspected. Now with this aberration list, I just found a string of 14 ballots that are sequential. Since the voting signature was fairly unique, I searched for the duplicates and they appeared immediately before them in a reverse order. But strangely separated by other ballots. Real double-scanned ballots should always be in reverse order since the tabulator's don't retain page order like normal scanners. So what happened here? Maybe someone was scanning ballots, grabbed a hand full of ballots, picked out the write in ballots, and rescanned them again? All but two of them are write ins. (Look for :Wri:)