why is it so difficult to just implent hand recounts to compare against machine tabulations?

[ORDagnabbit]

we know how easy it is to hack the tabulation machines and that they have built in acceptable error rates.

why dont we for the next 4 elections set up a system that every machine tabulation is automatically hand counted so that we can put to rest our fears of having our elections decided by unknown people.


trust but verify.

[riqster]

1. The short answer is money

...nobody in government wants to pay its people to do a recount. That's why they privatized the elections in the firts place.

Hell, look at those two yutzes in Cuyahoga County who rigged the recount so they wouldn't have to do a full count.

Also, many machine tabulations can not be hand counted at all. So the Fraudistas will just turn their efforts to districts that have touch-screens with no paper trail.

[rainy]

2. I think a whole lot of people would volunteer to count votes for free. People

who could be bonded or whatever it takes to make sure they are reliable.

[riqster]

3. That's how we did recounts in the punch-card days

..of course, back then we had voter-marked paper ballots, so it was possible to DO hand recounts.

[ORDagnabbit]

4. I know I would and there are a number of like minded people who would in the course of civic duty do

just like a jury...