{"id":13891,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/senate-should-pass-post-election-audit-legislation\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"el-senado-deberia-aprobar-una-ley-de-auditoria-postelectoral","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/senate-should-pass-post-election-audit-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"El Senado deber\u00eda aprobar una ley de auditor\u00eda postelectoral"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13891","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":13641}"],"related_issues":[143,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Votaci\u00f3n verificada<\/a> La presidenta Pam Smith y el profesor de inform\u00e1tica del MIT Ronald Rivest enviaron la siguiente carta al Senado de Massachusetts en apoyo de las auditor\u00edas posteriores a las elecciones para garantizar resultados electorales precisos.<\/p>

Estimado Senador,<\/em><\/p><\/p>

Le escribimos para instarle a que exija auditor\u00edas posteriores a las elecciones en HB 3788.<\/em><\/p><\/p>

Ning\u00fan sistema de votaci\u00f3n es perfecto. Casi todas las elecciones en Massachusetts se cuentan mediante sistemas de votaci\u00f3n electr\u00f3nicos. Dichos sistemas han producido errores que alteran los resultados debido a problemas con el hardware, el software y los procedimientos. Tambi\u00e9n pueden producirse errores al compilar los resultados. Incluso los errores graves pueden pasar desapercibidos si los resultados no se auditan de manera eficaz.<\/em><\/p><\/p>

In a municipal election in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2012 a \"synchronization\" problem with the election management software allotted votes to both the wrong candidate and the wrong contest; this was uncovered during a post-election audit. The results were officially changed after a public hand count of the votes.i In another state, a software malfunction caused thousands of votes to be added to the total. A manual audit revealed the mistake and officials were able to correct the results and avoid a costly run-off election.ii<\/em><\/p><\/p>

Ante cualquier ejemplo de mal funcionamiento o error que pueda provocar que se informe de un resultado err\u00f3neo, las auditor\u00edas peri\u00f3dicas ayudan a detectar y corregir esos errores. Las auditor\u00edas posteriores a las elecciones pueden:<\/em><\/p><\/p>