Reply #10: There's always some change in a recount this big. But it will be insignificant. [View All]

[Tesha]

There's always some change in a recount this big;
in order to count half a million votes, there are
simply too many operations for all of them to be
conducted error-free, at least where humans are
involved. And it's just as likely that the errors
will have occurred during the recounting process as
during the original tally. For example, the official
instructions on how to recount the ballots include
directions to sort the ballots into piles for each
candidate, grouped into sets of twenty-five ballots.
When you're considering thousands of ballots for
each candidate (as is true in my ward), that manual
process could easily go wrong by a few counts.

But in the end, the changes produced will be
insignificant and not indicative of any systematic
fraud or bias.

Tesha