Reply #9: So the questions is, what was the RESPONSE that made a recount

[Land Shark]

no longer tenable? Criminal election recount rigging? That would still be grounds for an investigation and election contest! Oh, and gee, as the link in the OP shows, in fact OHio elections officials are now being convicted of felonies for recount rigging. but the ones so far who have been so convicted are in Cuyahoga a democratic county (Cleveland).

In many cases, MORE POWERFUL than partisanship or the desire for election truth is the desire to protect the original count as being "legitimate" whether it is or not. This is why election officials can't be trusted with post-election audits and recounts -- they are too tempted to do CYA and mask what the audit or recount is showing in order to do CYA, or even CYA for their friends and associates so as not to cast them in a "poor light."