Reply #35: Again, you may be unaware of how recounts OR "recounts" work...

[BradBlog]

It is not a "recount" if ballots have not been counted by anybody in the first place (as they have not been in WI, where all but the few jurisdictions that do hand counts, have done no examination of ballots to assure the oft-failed, easily-manipulated op-scan systems and 100% unverifiable DREs tabulated ballots accurately in the first place.) Finally, *now* they are being counted for the first time. Some of them.

That's why there are quotes around the word "recount" when I use them here.

"SEVENTY EIGHT PERCENT of the ballots scanned are being counted by hand."

You mentioned that before, and suggested I had misreported that. I did not. Don't know where your 78% percent number comes from, in either case. Is that 78% of all ballots cast in the state? In Waukesha County? In any case, as I've reported in great detail, many times, some or all of 31 counties are being counted by hand in this "recount". So I'm not sure what you're quarrel is with me on the above.

BTW, stipulating your 78% number is correct, I'll remind you the unverified results showed a 0.488% margin between Prosser and Kloppenburg. Even if the 78% number is accurate and even if the chain of custody for all of those ballots were pristine (it is not, not by a long shot), that still leaves 22% of the ballots in which a change of just 0.244% would reverse the current results of the election.

That's about one half of a vote flipped from Prosser to Kloppenburg at each ward in the state and you've got a different winner of the election.

"You can scream about what you THINK a recount should be, but your opinion doesn't change what it IS. We ARE reconciling poll books and counting blank ballots."

Glad to hear it. Are you comparing the blank unvoted and spoiled ballots to the printer's distribution list to make sure all ballots printed are accounted for? Hoping so!

"Whatever, I am done kicking this thread and I am not going to give your blog any traffic and I am done with you and your Fox-like exaggeration of matters."

Good lord. I asked you for any example of anything I've reported incorrectly. You've not shared any such points, to my knowledge, yet you are furious at me. No clue why. Sorry, in any case, that you are. Especially as I suspect we both have very much the same goals in mind.