From DU:
At 4 pm today, after failing to get a match of hand counted ballots with punch card tabulator (ESS), two hand counts and two times through machine, after stating they were awaiting a call back from that company to have a new machine delivered, less than 30 seconds later convened a board meeting, voted to suspend recount, to await a new machine from ESS, and recount will be re-done Saturday, same exact precincts, the building is now closed, you are to exit the facility. BOE blaming issues on "machine failure" in order to avoid the now required entire county hand count. Precints were not random, they were selected by BOE, one from the Dem and one from the Repup.
No problem here... right? We'll have it fixed in a few days. No hand counts necessary. We'll let Kerry have his due in Fairfield and sweep the rest under the rug. After all, 136,000 ballots... I mean, 130,000... I'm sorry, 119,000... that's still a... mandate!
Greens will be going for a TRO. They are fully aware of entire circumstances of this report.
Here's to the dedicated opposition! Yeah Greens! Deliver us from the Red Menace!
In my mind, the mere existence of flawed tabulation machines warrants a full, manual recount of the state. The machines should be confiscated as evidence, before they have a chance to "repair" them.