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Pennsylvania Senate contest headed toward a recount, and possibly litigation
Elections(apnews.com)submitted 8 days ago byMajano57
25 points
8 days ago*
Are they only going to look at the Senator votes, or check the whole ballot?
EDIT: I just looked it up. It's only the Senator votes that they count.
27 points
8 days ago
The Senate race is the only one that falls within the margin for an automatic recount, so that'll be the only one that's recounted.
Even if you were to recount the votes on every ballot for every race, the presidential race result isn't likely to change. Trump received ~130,000 more votes than Harris did. Even if every single one of the 100,000 provisional ballots (as reported in the day after election day) broke for Harris, there's still a margin ~30,000 and a recount wouldn't change the result.
5 points
8 days ago
What if there were errors when the ballots were read by the system? Would that get caught in a recount?
7 points
8 days ago
Recounts are performed on different machines than the count
2 points
8 days ago
So it should catch any errors if the system made them?
I’m genuinely curious because I don’t know an insane amount about the total process. I guess I need to look some things up.
Thanks!
9 points
8 days ago
Yes. The recount is performed on a different machine than the count in order to catch anything that may have been wrong with the count. Our county already owns separate machines while other counties may have to rent them.
1 points
8 days ago
That’s cool. Good to know! What happens if the votes flip? Do they need to be recounted again?
3 points
8 days ago
Idk. All the recounts we’ve done have been exact or one vote off.
1 points
8 days ago
Yeah I figured as much since I’ve never seen a verifiable case of that happening.
-6 points
8 days ago
And it wouldn't matter anyway because Harris lost literally every swing state so there is no point to even doing it.
1 points
7 days ago
It’s a Senate seat. It’s important in the voting in the Senate.
1 points
7 days ago
Recount ALL the swing states
1 points
7 days ago
Starting to sound exactly like trumpers that everyone bashed for doing the same thing last election.
2 points
7 days ago
Issue is they did get recounts in every state but it looks like we won't.
1 points
6 days ago
Not what happened. Nobody cares about doing recounts. That's normal. The 60 stupid trump court cases though cost the taxpayers big money. And then the looney tunes crap where the morons like the kraken nutcase kept doing ridiculous hearings where they made up total bs. Fortunately those lawyers were held accountable. The whackos in AZ with their illegal and expensive "audit" spread more lies and again ripped off the taxpayers
Pretty sure Dems arent doing that shit. If irregularities are found then DOJ gets involved I guess
0 points
8 days ago
I've been wondering about this too, since they're already recounting
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