Reply #32: Unfortunately, most recounts need a trigger threshold. [View All]

[The Doctor.]

If the machine reports results outside of that threshold, no recount.

In Ohio, where they used opti-scan, a recount was triggered and SoS Blackwell had to illegally manipulate the count by selecting the precinct and limiting the count in order to avoid triggering a wider recount.

It's nice to have the ballots on file, I agree that they can be used to verify the machine totals, but they most often aren't.

The point is that the machine totals are centrally tabulated and therefore very easy to manipulate. Hand-counted ballots are the only way to avoid these problems when there are so many hurdles to triggering recounts.