On what basis?
@jpsb@Oceander @mystery-ak Remember the recount rule/law, which is an AUTOMATIC recount is paid for by the state if the vote count of the two candidates is close enough within certain parameters to trigger one. If an automatic recount is not triggered but a candidate wants a recount, the CANDIDATE has to pay for it. This is not the present problem in Florida. Read below:
What is happening here, it appears, is
voters, not
candidates, wanting a recount due to supposed hacking, whatever of paper ballots (I'll write about paper ballots later today). These people and their lawyer are nuts. They can't ask for a recount - they have to go to their local District Attorney, or their State Attorney General, and ask for an
investigation - not a recount. Voter fraud would have to be proved and then the Secretary of State would order the recount as every Secretary of State in every state is in charge of elections.
An addendum: Here is the reason the lawyer involved here doesn't know what he is doing. When I taught election law, lawyers would come to it to learn election law. Why did they not know it before? Because you can't make a living from knowing election law. They were experts in their fields of law but not election law. These lawyers were going to run for various judgeships somewhere in the state and now wanted to know what the law was regarding elections.
I had to publicly correct a Texas lawyer who was making a speech in a large auditorium. I never would have done that except I had just finished teaching a large part of that audience who were election judges/clerks. When the lawyer made a big mistake regarding the conduct of county elections, two of the election judges I taught, stood up and used my name, saying I taught them differently. I had no choice, had to stand up and give the lawyer the law regarding what he had said that was wrong. I did it as nicely as I could. The lawyer agreed he was wrong about that.
The lawyer in Florida asking for a recount is wrong, he needs to ask for an investigation, not a recount. Not going to be a recount unless there is first an investigation and proven election fraud.