Repeating the statement below for Religion and Politics. Discuss.
There was a hand recount in GA that was conducted as part of what the legislature required as a "risk limiting audit" of the electronic voting system. There was not an auditing in the risk limiting audit of signatures on absentee ballots. That was not the purpose of the "audit". The people who conducted the hand recount were "auditors". There were two "auditors" per "audit table". There was one partisan observer allowed per 10 tables. This is what Powell refers to in her case, that sufficient observation was not allowed. She will not win that, especially since the recount confirmed the machine count. Had there been some suspicious results, then maybe this would have more import. You have to realize that Powell claims the electronic fraud occurred system wide, so there were many places that hand recounted that would have been glad to discover that the will of the voter was thwarted. So since there was no systematic electronic fraud, we ought to be looking for more massive localized fraud like in absentee ballots, and thus we are back to the signature matching to see if invalid ballots swamped the system.