>I was thinking more of the recounts that were cancelled. If you can't recount to check if vote counts were altered without first having proof that vote counts

>I was thinking more of the recounts that were cancelled. If you can't recount to check if vote counts were altered without first having proof that vote counts were altered, what's the point? But you can. Many states already have automatic recount laws when vote totals are close. In many cases candidates can pay for recounts even if they aren't close. Recounts are common in American politics, and sometimes they even change the result--Al Franken won in 2008 after a recount flipped the result. The Florida recount would most certainly have been finished if any of the counties had found obvious cases of voting machine hacking. Every country completed at least 1 recount, and most completed manual recounts.