BBV - PA passes statewide recount bill

[harmonyguy]

HARRISBURG | Fearing an Election Day stalemate, the state Legislature scrambled and passed a statewide recount measure Wednesday, four weeks before the most divisive election in a generation.
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If the ballot count shows an election for statewide or national office is very close, statewide recount provisions would kick in automatically. Very close means if the two candidates are separated by 0.05 percent of the total votes cast. That would be roughly 25,000 votes, if 5 million votes are cast in Pennsylvania, as was the case in the last presidential election. The state would pay the cost, waiving the normal charge of $500,000 to open all 7,000 mechanical voting machines used in the state.
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The bill does not give counties any guidance on what constitutes a valid vote, nor does it establish any further statewide oversight of local election procedures.
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It also is up to each Pennsylvania county to devise its own ways to make sure ballots are accurately printed and are not tampered with before being counted.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5voteoct07,0,7409069.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed

Hmmmmmm, I wonder if they've given any thought to handling the ballots that don't exist, and if they were tampered with, how would they know?

HG

[napi21]

1. Does this mean they didn't have a recount proceedure in the past?

Does this also mean that Pa doesn't have very many touch screen voting machines?

[A Brand New World]

2. As a newbie, I must ask - What is BBV?

I've seen it many times and have tried to figure it out on my own, but no luck. Thanks!

[AmerDem]

4. Black Box Voting

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/

[RedEagle]

5. The Bev Harris/BBV.org site is

www.blackboxvoting.org

Join the group to help insure clean elections.

Also:

votersunite.org

verifiedvoting.org

[AmerDem]

3. The overwhelming majority of Pa

doesn't have E-voting. Actually the majority of Pa. still use the old lever type that have been around almost 70 years.