The largest urban counties in WI use optical scanners to read the ballots, so there are always some that can’t be read because of how the person marked them, and thus are not counted in the machine totals. Now they’re going back thru each ballot and eyeballing it to see if they can make out the “intent of the voter”. So those that were not readible before can be added to the total if the intent is clear to the bipartisan observers.
All this was predicted and not surprising. Since the odds of an unreadable ballot are random, the undervotes will fall in the same proportion as the original tally.
Yeah, was afraid of something like that. It ain’t really over until Jan 20th.
My gut tells me this election will be stolen. Too much at stake.
If the scanner cannot read the ballot, it is returned to the voter or the voter can choose to have the ballot accepted without re-voting. If the ballot is spoiled, the voter should trade in the spoiled ballot and be issued a new blank one to re-vote. The spoiled ballots are to be kept separate.