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An audit of the November election gained by President Donald Trump in swing-state Wisconsin discovered that not a single vote was counted incorrectly, altered or missed by tabulating machines.
The audit additionally discovered no proof that any voting machine or software program had been hacked or in any other case tampered with. The Wisconsin Elections Fee launched the audit’s findings final week and is scheduled to debate them Friday.
Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin by simply over 29,000 votes.
In 2020, when Trump misplaced to Joe Biden by slightly below 21,000 votes, Trump and his supporters alleged there was widespread fraud in Wisconsin. However two partial recounts, a nonpartisan audit, a conservative regulation agency’s evaluate and a number of state and federal lawsuits didn’t assist the claims.
Trump and his allies haven’t made comparable accusations about wrongdoing within the 2024 election that he gained.
Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s high elections official, mentioned in a memo that the audit exhibits the general public how successfully elections are run and in addition works to “dispel any misinformation or disinformation in regards to the safety of digital voting programs.”
The post-election audit is required underneath state regulation and has been finished after every common election since 2006. Native elections officers in 336 randomly chosen municipalities throughout the state hand-counted 327,230 ballots as a part of the 2024 audit. That’s practically 10% of all Wisconsin ballots solid within the 2024 election and the most important post-election audit ever undertaken within the state.
The one errors discovered throughout the audit have been made by folks, not the vote-counting machines. And solely 5 human errors have been detected, leading to an error charge of simply 0.0000009%, in accordance with the report.
“My hope is that this reassures individuals on all sides of the political aisle that voting tabulators are doing their jobs precisely,” Ann Jacobs, chair of the elections fee, mentioned in a put up final week on the social media platform X. “All of us lament when our candidate loses, however in WI, it wasn’t as a result of somebody hacked the machines. The opposite man simply obtained extra votes.”
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