[randita]

Anyone know what might trigger a recount? It’s common for a recount to be automatically triggered if the margin of victory is .5% or less. But also a recount can commonly be triggered if it’s proven that there were substantial irregularities with the voting. Often, the loser is highly pressured to waive their right to a recount to keep “party unity”.

Not sure what MS law requires, but apparently McDaniel doesn’t need to find 7,000 illegal votes, but enough to show the election was tainted - wonder what that threshold is.

[Cboldt]

There is a difference between "triggering a recount" and reversing the outcome. In this case, the strategy is not counting ballots, but invalidating a certain number of votes. The ballots probably look okay, IOW, there are few ballots invalidated because of the contents of the ballots. The margin is too wide to win by finding a small fraction of ballots where the intention of the voter can't be discerned, but a vote was tallied for one candidate or the other. I don;t know of any challenge based on errors in counting, either.

The threshold for "enough taint" to draw the election into question is roughly the margin of victory, or something pretty close to it. If the margin of victory is 6,700, and the number of tainted ballots is 2,000, the margin of victory is still substantial, and not enough to draw the outcome into question.

[donozark]

You are not the only one interested in finding out "what the threshold is." I'm a long way from MS but from what I've read, a judge would make the determination as to whether or not voter fraud was widespread enough to order a new election. Obviously, the more examples of fraudulent votes found, the better chances are of convincing a judge to order new election.Again, that is only my understanding. No idea if accurate.

Wish media would be more accurate with their reporting!!