I just listened to the County Clerk’s press conference. At one pint I thought she was going to cry. However, she bucked up and finished with a strong, clear voice. The Democrat on the Board of Canvassers supported her explanation and supported the audit process.
I lived in a small city in Florida in the only leftist county in North Florida. There was a lot of the usual Dem cheating (union buses bringing in the folks from the large local mental hospital and “voting” them, for example). But the county clerk and elections folks actually took their jobs very seriously (probably because a lot of them were old-school conservative Floridians) and all the poll workers did, too. At that level, the system worked.
I think this woman’s slow reporting may have saved the election for Prosser, but I doubt that she planned it that way. She was just an old-school careful, ethical person doing her job.