[shhrubbery!]

You're right - they want a hand recount of the so-called undervoted ballots. They hope to have a replay of the Florida 2000 recount, where officials somehow divined the "intent of the voter" ... by reading pregnant chads, dimpled chads etc. But I don't think Michigan uses the punch card-style ballots. I don't live there but am guessing voters use a pen to fill in circles on a card, then the card is read by optical scanner.

[thecodont]

I don't live there but am guessing voters use a pen to fill in circles on a card, then the card is read by optical scanner.

So how on earth does one discern voter intent when the space is blank, but the ONLY way one can register intent is with the ink of a pen?

[MarMema]

Not circles but more like rectangles...otherwise yep.