The goal is to get a recount, to get ballots into the hands of the Democrat operatives who will be conducting the recount.
Any variance between counts – which is inevitable – will be used to impeach the tabulation machines. This will then be used to attack results in other states.
This needs to be stopped now before any further bootstrapping.
Rather than presenting evidence that an irregularity in the conduct of the election has occurred and therefore requesting a recount, Stein wants a recount in order to determine if an irregularity has occurred. This is exactly backwards.
Stein has presented no factual basis to believe that a mistake or fraud has been committed in the counting and return of the votes cast. Neither Stein nor Halderman have specified a defect, irregularity, or illegality has occurred in the conduct of the election.
This needs to be stopped now.
How is it that Democrat operatives will be conducting the recount? Or is that supposition? The governor of the state is a Republican. Typically Electoral Boards are chosen by both parties with the governor’s party have one more board member.
At our polling place, and I imagine throughout Virginia, a member of each major party is required to sign the official tallies that get called into the electoral board. The ballots are secured in a sealed box then taken to the government center.