Reply #27: three percent

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I have known about this three percent thing for a long time. It was from instructive material distributed by Blackwell to the BoEs. At Ohio Vigilance, we've tried hard to find out where the three percent thing came from. I've combed through all the applicable laws from Ohio Revised Code and Administrative Code, and House and Senate Bills and have come up empty handed (I'm not a lawyer or law clerk or anything, but I can look for the phrase "three percent" as well as anyone).

The only thing I found in the Code was that the SoS is supposed to instruct the BoEs how to conduct the recount. The specific instructions are not in the Code, though.

One of the OV people contacted the office directly, and was told that it was in the Code and to look it up online.

None of the lawyers on the OV list could find it either. I don't know if anyone has gone any further with it than that.