:: How can recounts happen when so much evidence has been destroyed? Ballots thrown away, defaced, envelopes with signatures thrown away, etc. No way to just recount, if if very carefully, due to those factors. ::
What is the intent of an audit?
Is it to find fault and punish?
Or, to find shortcomings, correct them and learn lessons?
What is our intent (above) in calling for an audit?
What is the intent of State law-makers who call for an audit?
Hold the line, riders.
Audit for sure. But counting when so many are thrown out already, and existing ones with no envelopes and thus how to tell whose ballot it is? Dead, illegal, multiple time voter, non-resident etc.
Intent of audit?
Find the real numbers (imho not possible).
Punish wrongdoers - yes!
Crroect future - yes!
Quick search results in this from WP...
The President may authorize, through the Attorney General, electronic surveillance without a court order for the period of one year, provided that it is only to acquire foreign intelligence information,[7] that it is solely directed at communications or property controlled exclusively by foreign powers,[8] that there is no substantial likelihood that it will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party, and that it be conducted only in accordance with defined minimization procedures.[9]
The code defines “foreign intelligence information” to mean information necessary to protect the United States against actual or potential grave attack, sabotage or international terrorism.[7]
“Foreign powers” means a foreign government, any faction of a foreign nation not substantially composed of U.S. persons, and any entity directed or controlled by a foreign government.[10] The definition also includes groups engaged in international terrorism and foreign political organizations.[11] The sections of FISA authorizing electronic surveillance and physical searches without a court order specifically exclude their application to groups engaged in international terrorism.[12]
A “U.S. person” includes citizens, lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens, and corporations incorporated in the United States.
“Minimization procedures” limit the collection of information concerning United States persons by protecting their identities and requiring a court order to retain the communications for longer than 72 hours. The communications can be retained without court order if there is evidence of a crime. Identification of a US person, known as “unmasking”, may also be authorized if an agency believes it is necessary in order to understand the intelligence or believes that the person was committing a crime.[13]
The Attorney General is required to make a certification of these conditions under seal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,[14] and report on their compliance to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[15]
...I’M GUESSING THERE HAVE BEEN FISA WARRANTS FOR A WHILE