[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It has been a long-held practice by the Democrats to gin up controversy and force a recount in close elections, to garner an opportunity to "handle" the ballots. In many cases, handling the ballots results in enough Republican ballots being disqualified and "finding" enough Democrat ballots to give the win to the Democrat candidate. This practice has been substantiated by a Democrat agent who headed up a regional task force which engaged in these activities for years, even flipping a US senate race. But 9,000 votes seems to be a lot to overcome in one district.

[expatpat]

Hopefully, the Republicans will have plenty of tightly-focussed obervers there for the recount and handling.