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To: Diamond Jim who wrote (121744)	12/9/2000 6:20:35 PM
From: opalapril	Respond to of 186894

"What is next, we do it in all 50 states?" It has been done "in all 50 states" many times over in various elections going back to the very beginning. I participated in a few recounts at the precinct, ward, and county level in states other than Florida. It was for the most part very routine and few disagreements arose once everyone had the chance to eyeball individual ballots. Besides, it's not that unusual to hand-check machine totals in a variety of contexts. Accountants do it. Businesses do it. Doctors do it (machine 'counted' lab results are notoriously unreliable) and you'd better hope when the time comes your surgeon does it. Even the government occasionally does hand-checks -- of tax returns, for example. <gg>