No evidence it was anything but human error.
Ongoing recount restarts this morning. The spreadsheet discussed above makes clear that so far, with 11.3% of the vote recounted, there is no substantial variance from election night.
Some details of interest. In recounting absentee ballots it was noticed that two ballot envelopes failed to list an address for a witness. (Their absentee rules require an absentee voter to have two witnesses sign the envelope saying the voter is who he is and give their address). The envelopes were apparently no longer “connected” to ballots, so a decision was made to extract 2 ballots randomly from the pile and not count them. Pretty weird ruling.
This morning’s little time eating controversy is over a ballot on which Hillary was a write in, with Rubio written in as VP. The ballot was not counted Election Day, but the Clinton observers want it counted now in recount.
Yesterday was day 2 and 330K votes were recounted, 11.3% of the total vote. Day 1 was just getting underway and only about 3000 votes were counted. One would expect even more than 330K today. This rate WILL finish on time, but anyone can slow it down at any time. If they don’t, odds are pretty high there will be no substantial change to totals. So far these all look like honest people.
Conversation suggests he Hillary/Rubio vote WAS counted Election Day. Recount officials are saying this should not have happened. Decision pending.