Reply #49: Nah I think it's just that they want to avoid a full hand recount...

[demodonkey]

Both Dem and GOP, these are regular "heartland" people, not criminal types. They take real pride in their work and they want to be honest and do a good job... but they ARE scared of lawsuits, Blackwell, media circuses, and they are hard up for funds to run their BOE offices. They need for that 3% to match up, and they need it bad, so they don't have to pay for (and deal with) a full hand recount.

They are probably playing right into Blackwell and the corporations' hands by doing the little "fudge" of pre-picking and cleaning up their precincts for this recount, but they aren't doing it for those reasons.

They just want to be absolutely sure the 3% matches up so everyone can get on with Christmas and then the next election.