@Zaku Your previous post was:
“The Georgia recount was not requested by Trump, but was by his campaign? I feel like I must not know what you mean or why you think that’s significant.
Although I don’t know why it matters, I’ll share that I am seeing:
“Today, the Trump campaign filed a petition for recount in Georgia. We are focused on ensuring that every aspect of Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution are followed so that every legal vote is counted. President Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards,” the Trump campaign said in a statement. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/politics/georgia-presidential-election-recount/index.html)
And from the same article:
”Georgia already conducted an audit of the presidential ballots, meaning all ballots in the presidential race were counted a second time—which was a defacto recount. The audit was more rigorous than the recount will be as the audit was a hand recount of every ballot, whereas the new recount will be done by a machine rescan.”
I also don’t follow what you mean by asking if I’d care to modify my comment? Which comment might I want to modify in light of what?”
In answer to that post, I responded as follows:
The Georgia audit was performed because it was required by Georgia law. The new recount, which will be less rigorous than the audit, was requested by Trump. Of course what he (and his campaign) have requested is “an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards…”. What he will get is a simple machine recount of all the ballots, as previously validated.
I wanted you to re-evaluate your agreement with @AlaskaTundrea that the recounting is unending…
As you can see that by agreeing with @AlaskaTundrea you seemed to be implying not only an unending series of recounts, but that Trump was engineering the recounts for his fund-raising efforts. Therefore, I felt obliged to point out that the one recount we have had was not requested by Trump or his campaign. That is what has @AlaskaTundrea bent out of shape.
In your latest post, you say: “I haven’t seen anything other than pro-Trump fantasies suggesting that there’s actually any sign of actual issues with the signatures, or with the outcomes already generated.” Of course you have not. For one simple reason. Individual ballots are protected. Nobody can see them other than election officials.