bkdelong

Not sure if everyone heard the hullabaloo but allegedly Bush signed a bill while in office passed by the 75th State Legislature in 1997 that basically says a hand recount is more accurate to an electronic recount. I found a copy of the bill at the Texas Legislature Web site. Here's a the section:

41-13          (d)  If different counting methods are chosen under Section
41-14    214.042(a) among multiple requests for a recount of electronic
41-15    voting system results, only one method may be used in the recount.
41-16    A manual recount shall be conducted in preference to an electronic
41-17    recount and an electronic recount using a corrected program shall
41-18    be conducted in preference to an electronic recount using the same
41-19    program as the original count.

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