Alan Dechert wrote:
> Arthur,
>
>> It took 12 officials and 3.5 hours to count the 10,289 ballots by hand
>> for one contest.
> 23 hours
> and maybe $400 in personnel costs to hand count one precinct. There are
> about 5,000 precincts in Los Angeles. So, you need 30,000 paid,
> reliable, trained people plus the whole management infrastructure to
> deal with them. It's too awful to contemplate seriously.
Wow. Even to do an audit of 1% of randomly selected precincts would take
... let's see ...
50 precincts times $400/precinct = $20,000
Definately worth it. The probability, if just 10% of the 5,000
precincts in Los Angeles are corrupted, of detecting at least one
corrupted precinct would be 99.5%
Democracy ought to be worth $20,000 in Los Angeles.
Best,
Kathy
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