A recent discussion of vote tabulation reminded me: If you find a legislator who understands the difference between hundredths of a percent and thousandths of a percent, hug them tight. They are worth their weight in gold.
Another perspective on the "recount" language the Georgia Senate adopted: It would reduce the original machine counts for the main races to the same status as news media projections from exit polling. Helpful for getting an early idea of what's likely, but with zero influence on official results.
For the story on this amendment, see www.wabe.org/georgia-sena...
A full manual recount of the top two races triggered simply because of their position on the ballot is not a *recount* in any meaningful sense — it's *the count*, the way everyone knows from the get-go the votes will ultimately be counted. Contrast with alternatives downthread. (Photo: Rahul Bali.)
Recount Principles and Best Practices suggests triggering recounts when the vote margin is close, when officials have "reason to believe that an error, discrepancy, or inconsistency in the vote count has occurred," when "discrepancies are found in a post-election audit," and (continued)
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There's no reason to think the same votes would be cast if the electoral system were changed. The behavior of voters is influenced by the electoral system, both directly and through the behavior of campaigns. It's entirely possible that a popular vote election in 2016 would have elected Trump.
Pointing out that the two systems produce different results from the same votes is a really weak argument for switching from one to the other. It's not as though the electoral college was advocated for as a more efficient way of producing the same outcome. See the next post for a second weakness.
when a candidate is sufficiently troubled by the results to be willing to pay for a recount. Notice that all of these are conditions that any race on the ballot may or may not turn out to satisfy, not one that is known in advance. See verifiedvoting.org/publication/...
