Cats, Dogs and Audit

Traditionally, audits were mainly associated with gaining information about financial systems and the financial records of a company or a business (see financial audit). For more information on risk-limiting audits, see Verified Voting’s risk-limiting audit page. Helping to educate and communicate with the public about Election Integrity, Election Audit Audits, and related information and activities. “The first issue relates to a number of reports suggesting that the ballots, elections systems, and election materials that are the subject of the Maricopa County audit are no longer under the ultimate control of state and local elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised, or destroyed,” Karlan wrote, citing a pair of news articles as the source for her allegations. Wait for nightfall, Dave to count the ballots, or for Dave to leave after losing the Election Audit to loot the safe without witnesses. Be careful to leave at least one vote in the box, since taking all the votes may trigger an odd glitch where Dave gives the same speech as he would if he’d lost, where he says he’s leaving, but all other in-game effects are as though Dave won (Dave returns to his office, and you have a dialogue option to console the ‘losing’ candidate).

If you escort Dave to Old Olney, he will simply sit in the area with the two side-by-side dumpsters, First Aid Box, ammunition box, and large Radiation King poster. One of the non-player characters can go to the ballot box, and stand there doing nothing, making it impossible to finish the quest. You can then kill him, without killing or being shot at by the Republic of Dave residents. To use this method, make Dave lose the election and when he leaves for Old Olney you need to follow him a fair distance away from the Republic of Dave, so the residents don’t witness the murder, almost all the way to Old Olney, meanwhile protecting him from being killed by deathclaws, giant radscorpions and the like. Reloading a previous auto-save might solve the problem, however if the NPC went to vote from inside the voting building, you may need to reload a save from before you and they entered. The few things you can do when this happens is to load a save file, pickpocket Dave, or kill him. If this happens, reload a save from before, and as you tell each person to vote follow them and make sure they go through with it.

If you talk to Dave as he leaves he will tell you that he is going to Old Olney to liberate it from the wasteland and create a new Republic. Dave asks you to talk to the other four adults of his land (Jessica, Shawna, Rosie, and Bob) to get them to vote. If the Lone Wanderer talks themself into a roadblock with Shawna, it is impossible to finish the election. You are given the access code to the safe by the winner of the election. Dave will count the votes and declare whomever you left a vote for as the winner. After you have told Dave all the votes are in, he will go to the ballot box. Most votes are now conducted using electronic digital voting machines or by using paper ballots that are sometimes optically scanned. The GOP-controlled state Senate hired a Florida-based firm, Cyber Ninjas, to lead the audit, and the legislature leased Veterans Memorial Coliseum through May 14. Despite earlier assertions about wrapping up the audit by that date, when the venue is reserved to host several Phoenix high school graduations, Bennett now says there is “no deadline” for it to end. Senate contractors just confirmed this tweet, spread widely and including by Donald Trump, is false.

If Dave lost the election: The loot from Dave’s safe, including the unique rifle Ol’ Painless. If you speak to the victor he or she will give you the code to Dave’s safe. To obtain Dave’s safe key if Dave won the election, you can kill Dave, pickpocket him, or pass a Speech check during the quest You Gotta Shoot ‘Em in the Head. You may use this quest as a method to complete the You Gotta Shoot ‘Em in the Head quest with more stealth and avoid the residents being turned hostile (assuming you don’t have any interest in talking Dave into giving up his key). He will finally park himself in an alleyway and say “This is the New Republic of Dave. Go away.” After being talked to three times, he will attack you. Talking to him once results in him saying “This is the new Republic of Dave. Go away.” Talking to him again results in him threatening you. Talking to him again turns him hostile. However, if Dave attacks you and you subsequently kill him, the residents of The Republic of Dave become hostile and will attack you when you return. You can opt to follow him to Old Olney and kill any robots, bloatflies and deathclaws you encounter.