THIS is why a hand recount is so necessary in FL!!

[Roland99]

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[manor321]

1. Yes, this is why ballots like that will be hand counted

Note, they're not going to try to hand count every ballot. Just the ones the machines kick out as under or over votes.

[GemDigger]

2. At that point, the machine would kick it out and it would go to people for verification.

A better explanation here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10621252

Edit to add: Those ballots go to a table of three peeps for duplication, they are stamped and numbered.

If there is an issue they are given to a supervisor and given to another set of people who will duplicate those ballots, stamp it saying duplicate, writing SPOILED on the ballot that had issues. The spoiled ballot goes into an envelope and the good ballot is returned to the machine for counting.

[pnwmom]

4. Are you saying you know that is the process in that county in FLORIDA?

[GemDigger]

5. No. But I did see the machines they use and they are the same as ours.

It's the machines that do the counting. I also heard that the spoiled ballots were mixed in with the good ballots but I can't imagine that they do NOT have a way to figure it out. The thing that will take forever is the amount of ballots that need to be done.

[angstlessk]

3. So maybe the 'rick scott' vote had the preponderance to cause an overvote?

Just WOW...just some kind of mismatch?

[In It to Win It]

6. I know this is wishful thinking but why not just go ahead and hand count everything?

If you're going to hand count everything anyway, I don't see why not do it for the governor's race also.

[BlueInRedHell]

10. I think that it could cause delays that might keep the Nelson/Scott recount from

completing by the deadline. Otherwise, I'd be ALL for it.

[AlexSFCA]

7. convinietly, all those errors are always in favor of gop

[Stargleamer]

8. This is another reason why Al Gore was cheated in 2000

by Scalia et al for stopping the examination of both overvotes and undervotes.

We all were hurt by that stolen election.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Oh, I see. There's a small mark in the Scott circle that the machine read as a vote. But it's not.nt