I”ve learned what is needed here is not a “recount,” but a “recanvassing.”
Watch the Peoples Pundit show daily—it’s great.
Again, once a ballot has been separated from its outer envelope and put into the system, it's impossible to find it and take it out again later.
The time to stop a fraudulent ballot was during the validation process, which is precisely what the Republican poll watchers were prevented from doing in Philly and Detroit. They weren't allowed to see the signatures on the envelopes, and weren't allowed to see the signature matched what the state had on file for that voter. Thus they weren't allowed to challenge the ballot and have it put aside for later adjudication.
They got to watch envelopes ripped open from either behind glass, or 30' away from behind barricades.
A "recanvas" of the vote means to gather up all the paper ballots and run them through the machines again, and compare the totals with the first results. But all you're doing is recounting the faked ballots.