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Shufflebuzz t1_iztgp2x wrote

Reply to comment by PaulitoTuGato in Recount flips Mass. House election to Democrat by 1 vote by TurretLauncher

> Would a third count have a different outcome than the second count or first count?

Best two out of three?
Yeah, this doesn't inspire confidence in the system.

> How was the first count incorrect?

Regardless of party and election deniers and crazy conspiracy theories, I'd expect an explanation.

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LetMeSleepNoEleven t1_iztwa0r wrote

Machine counts can easily be off by a few votes due to damaged or poorly marked ballots. The hand “recount” is mainly getting a human eye looking at the ballots the machine could not read.

It is not akin to two people each counting a pile of things and getting different numbers.

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PaulitoTuGato t1_iztiws1 wrote

If I counted 123 grapes and upon counting again I had 124 grapes, I’d have to count at least a third time, to feel confident in my count. With such a close discrepancy, I might count a total of 5 times to feel confident in the count. I know it doesn’t shed a good light on our voting systems. The damage has already been done.

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transwarp1 t1_izxh82k wrote

More like if you had a machine that counted 120 green grapes, and 115 red grapes, and then a team of 4 people who took out one grape at a time and decided to count it as red or green (or neither). You already had four people evaluate each one.

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