re: #216 lostlakehiker

Try again. According to the article, first they tallied the machine votes. That was on election day. Next, they tallied the straight-ticket votes. That had to be done by hand. THEN, they held a recount. According to the article,

That vindicates my position. There was NO SWING WHATSOEVER during the recount. Each candidate gained a mere SIX, and those canceled.

You know what, you win on this one, I can’t seem to find a republican coming from behind on a recount.

HOWEVER!

Correlation does not equal causation for example…

alternet.org

“The largest source of error is going to be human error — marks that the machine cannot be expected to recognize. The voter crosses out one oval and fills in another. The machine sees an overvote, but the hand canvass counts the vote correctly. When the voter circles the candidate, or uses a check mark, or doesn’t fill in the entire oval, the machine sees no vote at all, but again, the hand canvass registers the vote.

Since 2000, seven out of seven peer-reviewed academic studies confirm that Democrats tend to make more mistakes than Republicans. The populations that are, in academic jargon, “vulnerable to error” are low-income, low-educated and minority, all of which disproportionately vote Democratic.”

So I’m afraid that you’re seeing a grand conspiracy where their is only human stupidity.