Local clerks prepare for presidential election recount - Janesville, Wisconsin

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With the presidential election recount set to start across the state later this week, it's “full steam ahead,” Rock County Clerk Lisa Tollefson said.

Recounting Rock County's more than 76,000 ballots, which Tollefson cautiously estimated would cost $82,000, will start at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente separately filed recount requests and will pay for the recount Tuesday, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

They will have to pay before it starts because of Donald Trump's margin of victory, Tollefson said.

The recount will require reprogramming the tallying machines to read just the presidential race on the ballots and making sure the total vote counts match what records show, Tollefson said. The machines are tested for accuracy and will be tested again.

It also will include checking for “irregularities” in the poll books and making sure absentee vote totals match the number of applications, she said.

“We have a lot to do,” Tollefson said. “If we work extra hours, I think we will (get it all done).” - GazzetteXtra, Janesville, WI

I'm really not keen on them "reprogramming the tallying machines." If those machines were hacked, reprogramming them will wipe the hacked programming changes out!! Any idiot would know this!!!

DO NOT REPROGRAM THE TALLYING MACHINES!!

[trotsky]

1. Actually, if the machines were hacked, and the original code changed to alter the tallies...

reprogramming will make them count accurately (one would hope). So that might be a good thing.

[ffr]

2. True. But I want the sources revealed and those machines identified.

I'd also like for any machine that uses a date stamp to be fed the date 11/08/16, in case the code is written specifically to run on that date and no other.

[trotsky]

3. Again I would say if you duplicate everything from the first tally...

then the machines will most likely output the exact same results.

We would want an incredible discrepancy between the two tallies, in order to draw attention to a potential hacking problem.

[TheFrenchRazor]

7. i hear you, but it seems a little odd that they need to "reprogram the machines" right away. nt

[KewlKat]

4. What about provisional ballots....any mention if those will be looked at?

so, not doing a hand count then?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. I read last week

that absentee will be counted, and valid provisional will be counted.

[womanofthehills]

9. They might have to validate the provisional that WI claims are invalid

Sounds like many that are valid are claimed to be invalid.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. Based on what? n/t

[womanofthehills]

8. Greg Palast said people who were purged off the voter roles due to the Crosscheck scam were

probably were given provisional ballots and most likely a great many of them were not counted. Sounds to me like the provisional ballots might be a biggie.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. There weren't very many provisional ballots cast in Wisconsin

http://www.wpr.org/few-provisional-ballots-cast-counted-wisconsin

Fewer than 20 percent of the provisional ballots cast in the election two weeks ago by voters who didn't have the required photo ID were counted.

The preliminary tally comes Tuesday from the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

There were at least 750 provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election, and of those, 618 were issued because the voter didn't have an acceptable photo ID, according to the commission.

Only 116 out of the 618 provisional ballots were counted. Most of them, 399, were marked as "deadline expired," which indicates they weren't counted. Another 278 were outright rejected and 224 had no information reported on their status.

[TheFrenchRazor]

6. they could count them by hand a lot cheaper than that. nt