@BassWrangler
Initially, I had thought the same thing. But after witnessing the recount first hand, I realized that no such accounting was taking place. Here are some key points that show the recount was a complete sham:
- The recount mixed together mail-in and machine ballots so that, so there was never any exclusive check of Dominion ballots performed. In other words, there was no way to trace any discrepancy directly to Dominion. Any discrepancy with Dominion totals could have been covered up with the introduction/removal of mail-in ballots.
- Machine ballots were pre-sorted before being delivered to the counting tables. A single box containing 1000-1500 ballots would be segregated with the top several hundred going to one candidate and the remainder going to the other candidate. This would have simplified the addition/subtraction of ballots explained above.
- Each batch had the total printed on a cover sheet. In other words, it wasn't a blind independent count. Instead, the counters were tipped off as to what their target was.
- Even when there was a discrepancy, the ballot handler failed to record it. There was never any written account passed from the counters to the tabulators other than the batch had been counted.
- Batch boxes were not secured. Some were placed on a shelf within reach of monitors standing behind a tape barrier.
- The GOP was limited to one observer per every 20 counters. Photos were not allowed inside the counting area.
- Mail-in ballots were not checked for signatures, creases, or watermarks. Signature records were separated from the ballots and destroyed.
- Adjudicated ballot which were supposed to be handled separately were included with the recount batches - a violation of the recount procedure. Every single one I saw went as a vote for Biden.
- In the tabulation area, workers take the cover sheets and enter the data on yet another software package. There is supposed to be two eyes on each tally, but that rarely happened. One person would call out a number, and the second person type it in, with each person's eyes fixed on one thing. The person calling out the number did not watch what was typed, and the person typing did not look at the number being called out.
- Fulton County, which took eight days to complete their original count, was able to complete their recount over one weekend. Their recount was announced complete before 8 am on Monday when every other county was just getting underway. That's over half a million ballots counted from noon Saturday until 7 pm on Sunday. They ran the ballots through the exact same machines
- Each ballot has a bar code (mail-in) or QR code (machine) that is a unique identifier for that ballot. The hardware is capable of distinguishing whether a ballot has been counted already, but there is nothing in the code that prohibits this from happening, nor logs when it does.
- Incidents of fraud were limited to a select group of counties with people on the inside. These same people were in charge of the recount and had ample time to prepare for it.
- Dominion had live remote access to voting machines during the election.
- Dominion admitted to making changes in their software less than a month before the election to correct a discrepancy with the special election for Senate. Any software changes require re-certification, yet no such re-certification took place (and still hasn't).
- There is a double-accounting when voting at the polls. You make your selection on a touch screen. A paper record is emitted, and that paper is then fed into another scanner. The original record still exists on the touch screen machine, but those numbers have never been checked.
@Hoodat , thank you for taking the time to prepare that detailed reply. You raise some very good points, and it certainly seems like they had ample opportunity to cover up all sorts of fraud - even potentially the Kraken. While I'm certain there was significant fraud, I'm still not buying the "Kraken" theory. It is just so extreme, and there would be so many ways to get caught with this. But let's wait and see.
By the way, thanks for taking a civil and friendly approach to make your points. I wish everyone here would do that.
