The one figure that should be an exact match and is the total number of ballots cast. This report is saying that the hand recount overcounted total ballots by nearly 1,000. Logically, every tally should have been lower then with 2 exceptions and 1 would be different standards for clear intent. For instance, are there overvotes where someone, for instance, marked for Biden and then wrote in for Biden. One standard could say ignore all overvotes while another could say go by clear intent. That could explain some of the difference in total write-in ballots cast. The other is that the audit shows nothing on provisional ballots and that seems rather strange. Think of the implications on elections like Florida in 2000. It would also be interesting to know what the results were from the initial machine tally.
We need to see the detail but the differences look to me to be much greater than they should be, casting a shadow on the election procedures, including the counting of ballots. While this is the largest county in Arizona is it even half of the votes cast statewide? The shiny object is the net pick up for Biden. Do not be distracted by shiny objects.
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