Counting ballots by hand

In their continuing effort to solve the non-problem of “rigged elections,” Republicans in six states have introduced legislation calling for the hand counting of voters.  I learned this today in a column by Times News writer Bruce Frassinelli.  He pointed out that the hand recount in Arizona took weeks, and that hand recounts have an error rate between one and two percent.

Although Pennsylvania currently has no legislation calling for a hand count, I’ll bet within a month or two some Republican legislator will jump on the bandwagon.