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That's not how recounts work. Please, inform yourself.

sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
Ok, how about this? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.h... "Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University." If you've got 100k votes to recount, you might have up to 2000 errors, according to this research.
ceejayoz 3y ago
It's absolutely how recounts work. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-republicans-hand-count-ballots-price-tag-errors-mojave-county-rcna97769 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-republica... > Election workers spent three days counting 850 ballots in Mohave County. They made errors in 46 races. > Each ballot took three minutes to count, Tempert said. At that pace, it would take a group of seven staffers at least 657 eight-hour days to count 105,000 ballots, the number of ballots cast in 2020. Mohave County would need to hire at least 245 people to tally results and have counting take place seven days a week, including holidays, for nearly three weeks. That estimate doesn’t include the time needed for reconciling mistakes, or counting write-in ballots, Tempert’s report added. This from a county that went 75% for Trump in 2020 and really wanted this to work, incidentally.
- linuxftw 3y ago
  Unlike the Stein recount, it seems Mohave County actually possessed the ballots. I'm talking about 100's of ballots going 'missing' and having no paper trail whatsoever. Also, 46 'races' out of 30k+ races, because for whatever reason, they count each individual vote up and down the ballot as a 'race.' So, 46 errors out of over 30k. Tellingly, this article doesn't indicate whether the presidential race results were accurate within any margin, nor does it indicate whether the actual vote totals matched what was reported on election night.

Ok, how about this? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.h... "Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University." If you've got 100k votes to recount, you might have up to 2000 errors, according to this research.

ceejayoz 3y ago

It's absolutely how recounts work. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-republicans-hand-count-ballots-price-tag-errors-mojave-county-rcna97769 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-republica... > Election workers spent three days counting 850 ballots in Mohave County. They made errors in 46 races. > Each ballot took three minutes to count, Tempert said. At that pace, it would take a group of seven staffers at least 657 eight-hour days to count 105,000 ballots, the number of ballots cast in 2020. Mohave County would need to hire at least 245 people to tally results and have counting take place seven days a week, including holidays, for nearly three weeks. That estimate doesn’t include the time needed for reconciling mistakes, or counting write-in ballots, Tempert’s report added. This from a county that went 75% for Trump in 2020 and really wanted this to work, incidentally.

linuxftw 3y ago
Unlike the Stein recount, it seems Mohave County actually possessed the ballots. I'm talking about 100's of ballots going 'missing' and having no paper trail whatsoever. Also, 46 'races' out of 30k+ races, because for whatever reason, they count each individual vote up and down the ballot as a 'race.' So, 46 errors out of over 30k. Tellingly, this article doesn't indicate whether the presidential race results were accurate within any margin, nor does it indicate whether the actual vote totals matched what was reported on election night.