Ohio Redux
It looks like the Ohio votes will be recounted.
As I had written in an earlier post, my primary concern with this election was less about the outcome and more about the utter stupidity of the voting procedures that were deployed across the country.
The electronic voting machines are poorly designed and have an even worse implementation. Worse, many precincts had no idea how to deal with voters that wanted to use paper ballots. Thousands– millions?– of paper ballots were considered “provisional”, and likely not counted, that should not have been. The problems were not unique to Ohio. Fortunately, Ohio had exhibited a number of the common problems and, as such, a recount in Ohio will help quantify the depth of the stupidity and help push along the effort to reform election procedures and equipment.
It would appear that shedding light upon the voting procedure itself is the primary motivation for the recount as the recount was triggered by actions taken by independent presidential candidates.
The recount will happen after the election results are certified. I wonder what would offically happen in the extremely unlikely event that the recount shows that Kerry won Ohio?