That's what worries me. If he's actually going the recount route, he's going somewhere I can't support him and I don't think good Republicans should support him. Wait for all the votes to come in? Fine, but recount till you make up 7000 votes somehow? No. I didn't support Gore when he did it, I didn't support Gregoire when she did it, and I'll be damned if I change just because the guy is on my side.
Recounts, perhaps...lawsuits, no.
Allen isn't doing some recount with a bunch of overpaid lawyers as in Al Gore's case...the recount is available in Virginia when it is so close. Al Gore used hanging chads and other made-up crap, as an excuse.
You're right. He needs to concede once the three missing precincts are located, if there's no 7,000-vote miracle by that time.
Unless some information come out that suggests that there is a need for a recount to get an accurate count, I agree that he shouldn't request one.
He should waste the taxpayers money on a pointless recount, or case unnecessary dispersions on the election system simply because the vote didn't go his way.
That way he can say he at least lost with more dignity than Al Gore or John Kerry. Kerry didn't contest the vote here in Ohio directly, he let others do it and waited until later to claim the election was rigged against him despite the fact that there was no evidence to support his claims.
I still haven't forgiven the Libertarian Party Presidential candidate for joining with the Green Party candidate to give them a high enough percentage of the vote to force a recount here in Ohio at the taxpayer expense in 2004.
In Virginia a recount is automatic if the difference between the candidates is less than .50% of the total vote. In this case some 2.2million votes cast. It's not that Allen is asking for a recount.
Personally, I think a recount would be futile, but by law Allen, his supporters and the state are entitled to a recount. It might be not so much FINDING 7K votes, as disqualifying 7K votes. The last precincts that came in and flipped the lead Allen held all night for the final tally, after some 99% of the votes had been counted, were from Arlington and Fairfax Counties.