[Mannaggia l'America]

Apparently several counties decided to go the hand-count method AFTER submitting their estimates to the state election board for machine recounting, no doubt as a means of injecting additional Jill Stein money into their local economies. I say kudos for their entrepreneurship!

I just don't get the thinking that hand counting is more accurate than machine counting. Why did we even bother inventing calculators and computers?

[DBrow]

“I just don’t get the thinking that hand counting is more accurate than machine counting.”

If a human looks at the ballot they can determine *intent* in the votes. So if the ballot is 100% Dem except for Trump, well they obviously intended to vote Clinton and must have mismarked it. lol

[Ellendra]

I just don't get the thinking that hand counting is more accurate than machine counting. Why did we even bother inventing calculators and computers?

If everyone followed the directions, it wouldn't be. But in every election, there are people who write in their candidate even if they're already on the ballot, or circle the name instead of filling in the dot, etc. An honest recounter would catch these.

A dishonest recounter? God knows what they do.