• @[email protected]OP
    1•3 months ago

    The normal action with machine counts is to randomly select a subsample and hand count those to validate. It’s just slow, expensive, and error-prone to hand-count really huge numbers of ballots with lots of offices on them. And that’s the whole point of this decision — to make it so that people don’t have a reliable count of votes the next day, allowing the opportunity to toss out the voters decisions entirely.

      • @[email protected]OP
        3•3 months ago

        Because you can do it well at small scale at modest expense. It’s expensive to do well and fast for ballots with lots of offices and in large numbers.

        This decision, unaccompanied by money to hire people, basically guarantees chaos.

          • @[email protected]OP
            1•3 months ago

            Pretty simple:

            • They require three people on each count. One is a Republican, one a Democrat, one an election worker
            • There isn’t money to hire election workers, so they can’t count the ballots fast
            • The Republicans are going to raise all sorts of random objections with no real basis
            • The slow counting in urban areas plus the spurious objections creates an excuse for local boards to refuse to certify the results
            • This in turn means no EVs from Georgia, so the election gets tossed to the house