The only way to verify electronic totals is to compare them to a hand audit or hand recount, which rarely occurs & costs $$$. So Ray Lutz developed Audit Engine to allow the public to reconstruct & tally elections from ballot images that scanners automatically create.1/

Ray says most scanners in most battleground states automatically create these images, so we shld be able to use Audit Engine in November. The catch is that many officials destroy the ballot images, & we must educate them quickly to NOT do that bc they are public records. 2/

During my interview of Ray, he ran a sample ballot image tally on Audit Engine, and it took only about four minutes for one county. You can watch & listen to the complete interview here. Thank you. #BallotImages 3/

As you can see in the video in post 1, this is not a substitute for hand counting the paper ballots. If a discrepancy is found between the ballot image total & reported total, however, the idea would be to go to court and DEMAND such a hand count. 4/

In addition to preserving the ballot images, officials must make them available to the public. Some jurisdictions are already doing this. Most don't know to do it and aren't doing it. 5/

Here's the link to Ray Lutz's nonprofit, Citizens Oversight. You can contact him for more information about Audit Engine and his other projects. https://citizensoversight.org/  6/

Ray is not on Twitter much, but I will tag him here in case he decides to change that. I hope he does because I imagine people will have lots of questions for him :-) @raymondlutz 7/

Again, this is not a substitute for hand audits or hand recounts. But since those in power generally refuse to conduct meaningful hand recounts and hand audits, this is a potential way to allow some degree of public oversight. 8/