re: #89 Obdicut

You might want, at some point, to back up your assertions. At all.

In the case of your math above, you’re begging the question by assuming that 1 percent are open to ‘replay’, whatever the fuck that means.

Can you please explain this statement?

Do you understand that in a recount, all votes are recounted? It kind of seems like you don’t.

It seems, again as always, that you deliberately misunderstand what is written. All the votes, of course, are looked at again.

Computerized voting hardly leaves room for challenge. All one has is the totals from the machines. Hand-cast ballots may, in some cases, leave room for differences of opinion. Most do not.

So out of a big pool of votes, we have a smaller pool of votes that are cast in such a way that they MIGHT be questioned. Hand-marked ballots, write-in ballots, paper punched ballots.

Out of that small pool, a small fraction are in fact marked in such a way that people of good will might form different judgments about what the voter intended. It is these ballots that MIGHT end up being recorded as null when they were originally seen as valid, or as valid when they were originally seen as null, or as for A when they were originally deemed to be for B.

These few cases will go some to A, some to B, and the corrections will mostly cancel each other out.

That is why the general trend is that the recounted tally differs by a tiny amount from the original tally. Departures from this are statistical anomalies and as we all know from how things work with standardized testing, tax returns and so on, anomalies are red flags.

Now not all anomalies are instances of cheating. E.g. the movie Stand and Deliver. But, many of them are.