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To bring this more in line with HackerNews usual content, what do you guys think the chances are that the voting machines will actually show a significant discrepancy from the paper receipts? Will this recount actually involve an audit of the voting machine software at all?

I have my doubts the outcome will be significantly changed, but I'd love it if the process involved an auditing of the voting machines, just from a curiosity standpoint...

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I would suggest it be checked, but not expect to find anything depending on the model. It'd look for zeroed out blocks, blocks containing data from other blocks or blocks containing random data where there should be none because this is how I'd erase traces of malware myself. Also look for directories with suspicious deleted entries (because I almost forgot I'd need to rewrite those too to erase any fingerprints).

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