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Dare County Board of Elections completes hand-to-eye sample audit; tallies match precinct tapes
Summary
The Dare County Board of Elections conducted a hand-to-eye sample audit of two randomly selected precincts (Kill Devil Hills and Southern Shores) for the U.S. Senate contests and reported that the manual tallies matched the precinct tape totals; the board sealed ballots and signed audit sheets.
The Dare County Board of Elections held a public hand-to-eye sample audit on May 14 to compare manual tallies with precinct tabulation tapes for two randomly drawn precincts, Kill Devil Hills and Southern Shores, focusing on the U.S. Senate contests for both parties. The board opened sealed ballot boxes, sorted ballots by party and candidate and completed the caller/tallyer procedure required by state guidelines.
Director said the board would ‘‘open the box and sort them’’ and described the bipartisan process used: one Republican and one Democratic tallyer, a caller and a watcher for each team.…
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