County boards and hand counts

There’s been ample publicity about the conspiracy-fueled decision in Shasta County, CA to hand-count election results (more here), and a similar truncated effort in Cochise County, AZ.  (Aside from the fact that tallies will take far longer and cost far more, I’m old enough to remember when hand counting wasn’t seen as the guarantor of reliability.) 

But sometimes all the attention to the outliers can make it seem like the outlier cases are actually the norm.  So it’s also worth lifting up what’s happening far more frequently: county boards unanimously heeding state law and facts on the ground.  To wit: this 6-0 decision in Ionia County, MI, last week.

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