Blake, A manual recount in heavily democratic counties is a travesty of our process, cynically masquerading as "voters rights", etc.. Surely you are not so naive as to think that it has NOT been common knowledge for YEARS that the balloting system(s) in most states is antiquated and rife with a very high rate of error? Just look at the throw-outs from past elections. Surely you are not so naive as to think that the manual count in those precincts will be as precise and unbiased as a machine count.
From what I've read, the antiquated punched card machine counts do have a high error rate. (Read a good article on "Hanging Chad", but can't find it anymore). Normally the winner attains a margin much higher than the error rate, so we don't see the results contested.
In this case, the margin of "victory" is much lower than the machine error rate, so I think a manual, visual count may be justified. Since both parties will be involved in the recount, I think it will be unbiased. Why is the process feared so?
BTW, here's an interesting article on results in Volusia County, Florida.
Excerpt, ‘No wonder
people in the
North think we're
a bunch of
bumbling idiots —
because we are.'
— JAMES CLAYTON
lawyer, DeLand, Fla.
msnbc.com |
