With your accountancy background/knowledge, how would you audit an election? What seems logical to you?
Not an accountant but I would look at the number of people who officially voted and then add up all the columns in all the races and see if any race had more votes cast than the number of voters. I would then start going down jurisdictions trying to isolate any city/county, then precinct to try to determine where the discrepancy was. I would then lean in hard on the local folks for an explanation if there was an issue.
There is practically no way to audit an election. There may be certain parts that could be audited, but on the entirety of it, no. Being able to audit an election depends entirely on the security features (including different types of records) that were kept in the first place. Obviously if the security features were not very tight then an audit of the records could be near meaningless, since it would be difficult to be sure those records were accurate. Records are only one type of security feature, and in collecting those records there needs to be some checks and balances and well thought out security protocol. An auditing of records has to be understood within the context of election security measures that were taken. The two are very connected. One concept in election integrity is chain of custody, which means process or paper trail documenting the control or transfer of equipment and materials. This should be obvious but you can't just audit an election after the fact if very poor security measures were in place and there were not adequate records kept. At the most basic level, an audit of the votes is similar to just counting up the votes on the ballots again, like was already done. The only difference might be that it is done in more detail.
It wouldn't really be a job for accountants. I don't recall anything from my accounting classes that would be relevant to auditing an election. Accounting is more about double-entry bookkeeping.
next year I will begin drawing on the SS payments I have made since 1966.. I received a statement from the SSA detailing every cent I have paid into the fund for over 55 years the government has counted every dollar I have earned when a person files for their first SS number that person should also be registered to vote at the same time then when becoming eligible, I am sure the government can count who voted and where that person voted but the GOP will NEVER allow the above to happen but it sure seems the government could figure out a way to count the votes wait , they do count the votes , but when a republican loses the GOP cries foul
You would need to lower the voting age then because you need a SSN when your tots are babies now. Some people get them as soon as they get the birth certificate. Additionally some people get SSN's who are not citizens like permanent resident aliens.
please read my post. when a person becomes eligible is when they vote. they can register to vote but not vote until eliglble. I paid into the SS fund but could not be paid back until I was eliglble ..the government sent me a letter telling me I was eligible to collect my SS payments and if a foreign citizen receive a SS number , that person would not be eligible until becoming a US citizen and the government could send each person a letter when they are eligible to vote
