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TIL the way they shuffle ballots in a hand recount can flip a close race, and I watched it happen in a 2022 school board vote
A retired clerk in Kalamazoo showed me how stacking ballots by precinct before recounting changes the pile order, and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen a local race get reversed by nothing more than how the stacks were arranged.
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logan_owens146d ago
Used to figure hand recounts were about as fair as it gets, like you just count every ballot twice and the truth comes out. Then a buddy who worked a recount in a state rep race back in 2018 told me the order of the stacks can matter more than people want to admit, since the counters get into a rhythm and stuff near the top of a pile gets more eyes on it. Hearing your Kalamazoo story makes me way less sure that a recount is some magic fix, lol.
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