McPherson County State’s Attorney declares hand-counting a complete bust, as noted as “far more inaccurate than tabulators”

The news is out that hand-counting of ballots this last primary was officially a bust, as the hand-tabulators in McPherson County took two audits to get it right:

Hand-counting all of the June 4 primary ballots in McPherson County proved the process is a waste of time and money.

That was the take of McPherson County State’s Attorney Austin Hoffman after a secondary audit of ballots on Tuesday.

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The hand-counting resulted in four missed ballots (eight missed tallies) in the District 23 House Republican primary, Hoffman said.

“In my view, that’s not acceptable for an actual election,” he said.

Hoffman said concerns about vote tabulators have “no merit whatsoever.”

Read the entire story here.

40 thoughts on “McPherson County State’s Attorney declares hand-counting a complete bust, as noted as “far more inaccurate than tabulators””

  1. Facts and hard proof won’t stop a few individuals with room temperature IQs from blathering on about trust, corruptabliltiy, and other falsehoods about tabulators that they cannot nor will ever try to prove.

  2. What, no way. I can’t believe a movement driven without evidence or merit produced the expected bad outcome. And I can’t believe this bad outcome won’t make a dent in their cries for hand counts. Oh, wait. I can absolutely believe it, as it’s going to happen. These idiots don’t care about your proof, only their story. This changes nothing.

      1. Que the dumpster diver’s latest Facebook post with comments about this article. Wish he would’ve wasted some more money by staying in the race and getting trampled by Dusty.

        1. I may or may not have just called him out on the absolute garbage, and lie, of a post.

          1. When local Republicans have done the same and it makes Toby look bad he tends to block them and anyone who likes their posts.

            1. Well, then he’s in violation of federal law. A very recent SCOTUS opinion said that’s a no no.

          2. Doeden is an intellectually lazy idiot driven by pure greed. We are disgusted a number of candidates some being legislators and other elected officials have allied themselves with this sleezebag.

  3. June 14, SD Canvassing posted that the machines had been proven wrong in McPherson county… it did not age well. Maybe that’s why they took the post down.

  4. If we can’t trust a unemotional machine to count ballots…why should we trust the people counting them?

    1. So you’re saying that when you put stupid people who have been advocating ceaselessly for hand counts and ‘training’ with the weeble wobble method you get bad counts, then you get to redo it all with good people and prove the stupid people are actually stupid. Sounds fun

      1. Well to think your smarter than a programed machine is beyond me. It’s not about who’s smarter or more dumb. It’s more about the people and their biases counting and if they can keep themselves accessible.

  5. I doubt that our basic Math skills are any better than our mastery of the English language.

  6. English is, indeed, capitalized.
    Math is not, unless it is the first word of a sentence.
    grudznick is never capitalized.
    Doeden is just Doeden, the number of man, the 5 original senses like “see”, “hear”, “holler”, “stink”, and …I forget. Wait…”grope.”

  7. Math is capitalized when it is used as a specific academic discipline or class. As in Math 1.

    1. No, it’s only capitalized when talking about a specific course or class, not when talking about a discipline (except when discussing a specific language).

    1. Wow, what a thoughtful and well articulated argument. Cogent throughout, really.

        1. Still no argument, no proof of your conspiracy bullshit. Nice “no u” though, really straining your brain cell this morning huh?

  8. It is not a matter if computers can count faster or more accurate it is a matter about which system is the least corruptible. It is easier to corrupt one vote counting machine then the 5 to 10 voting centers with multiple election workers that are your neighbors and with poll watchers that you also know. People have the right to an election process that they trust.

    msNBC Nov. 8, 2022, “Technicians were dispatched to polling sites across Arizona’s largest county on Election Day to fix dozens of malfunctioning vote tabulation machines, a widespread issue that frustrated voters…”

    Now 2 years later temporary help walks in and steals vote tabular fob/key.
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/arizona-election-worker-arrested-maricopa-county/index.html

    1. We dont trust the hand counts because we rely on science and evidence. What you mean is: YOU have the right to an election process YOU want.

      1. We all have the right to a simple, open, fair, election process. That is paper ballots and hand counting. I do not think you have a strong acquaintance with science.

        1. You don’t have any proof that hand counting is more accurate than the tabulator. You keep posting your chickenshit cop outs and empty platitudes but never prove any of your claims.

  9. How did this S***show originate in South Dakota?

    “Stop the Steal” grift pushed by the Trump campaign and his enablers? I saw it coming and hoped people were better than this to be duped by this con and focus on on what is important being the real issues and to be disciplined on social media.

    Political grifters on social media and elected officials on Fox for example that kept fueling the fire of doubt?

    Out of state nutballs that moved to South Dakota like Weible seeking their Freedumb and spread chaos?

  10. Why is Austin Hoffman, as County State’s Attorney, providing comment to the media?

    1. Why not? He has every right to do so and as an elected official he can use that platform to educate, clarify and assure citizens that our system is working.

    2. He is an elected official. If you don’t like the job he is doing you can vote him out in 2026. But he is right, machine counts are more accurate.

  11. The Doeden Dumpster Divers election deniers are now attempting to go after SA Hoffman now. They are getting totally outclassed by by Hoffman. You read all the conspiracies they post and it is just nuts! You could have city workers doing routine work in the sewer with the intersection blocked off by orange safety cones and these people would think there is some malicious plot going on.

    Doeden’s agents of chaos.

  12. It appears most of you have no idea what computers are about. First rule is garbage in results in garbage out. Rule when using calculators is to have a rough idea worked out in your mind what range the answer should be in. If the answer is not reasonable go to the gold standard which is hand calculation. The mind set put into the mind of a great number of people is that machines are a truthful agent. No, these machines are just tools that do what the people that create, program, and maintain them ask them to do. These brain washed people are what makes artificial intelligence (AI) so dangerous. If you need to defeat AI you unplug the machine. So the answer is simple, the difficulty is to get the sheep to unplug.

    1. And guess what, the audits and calibration, and testing of the tabulators shows that they are faster and more accurate and less prone to error and corruption than hand counting. Prove your claims otherwise.

      You dare speak of sheep? Look in the mirror, you’re being lead through the nose by a hawker of cheap pillows and Feeble-Weible.

      1. I repeat.
        It is not a matter if computers can count faster or more accurate it is a matter about which system is the least corruptible. It is easier to corrupt one vote counting machine then the 5 to 10 voting centers with multiple election workers that are your neighbors and with poll watchers that you also know. People have the right to an election process that they trust.

        msNBC Nov. 8, 2022, “Technicians were dispatched to polling sites across Arizona’s largest county on Election Day to fix dozens of malfunctioning vote tabulation machines, a widespread issue that frustrated voters…”

        Now 2 years later temporary help walks in and steals vote tabular fob/key.
        https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/arizona-election-worker-arrested-maricopa-county/index.html

  13. I think the entire process would go better with many hands making light work.

    Of course, you don’t want the fox guarding the hen house.

    What a mess.

    Hand count it ALL.

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