If so, Chokin' Etheridge will "amazingly" have the votes to win.
Or the SOS may simply ‘deem’ Etheridge to have won.
The MSM upon finding out about the “missing” votes to put Etheridge over the top will be like that guy from “Stalag 17” whose wife wrote him to say that she “found” a baby on her doorstep who just so happened to look just like her: “I believe it. I BELIEVE IT!”
Okay, game over. Don't even bother with the recount. Let us now just declare Etheridge the winner without going through the usual "missing ballots" formalities.