Saguache County, Colorado Court-Ordered Recount Does Not Go Well

On August 12, a state court in Colorado had ruled that the 2010 ballots cast in Saguache County, Colorado, should be re-counted. The Secretary of State had pressed for this outcome, in a legal contest with the County Clerk. However, the recount process, as described in this article, has failed to satisfy the voters who originally pressed for the recount. See this story. The county uses ES&S vote-counting machines. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.


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  1. Richard, since an electronic machine should arrive at the same figure over and over again, regardless of how many times it is “recounted”, why haven’t courts ruled that they violate laws which provide for both public vote-counting and recounting votes? In other words, if one provision of law conflicts with another, what do they do? Pretend?

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