Voting watchdog: Don't blame the recounts on machines

While it looks like the 60th Senate District race may be headed for a manual recount thanks to snags with the new voting machines, a leading ballot technology watchdog is stressing that such recounts have long been a fact of life during close elections, even with the old lever machines.

“Complaints about all the lawyers getting involved, and the time it will
take to reach an outcome, forget that when lever machine elections were
disputed, and they were, lots of lawyers got involved and it took quite some
time to determine an outcome, even into the following year”
noted Bo Lipari, who served on a that advised the state on its choice of optical ballot scanning devices.