[Superman]

Island, with all DUE respect, I don't think you'd recognize an unbiased idea if you saw one. You said it yourself. This is the closest election in anyone's memory. I think the last count had Rossi by......drum roll please......41 votes. Something like that. So, tell me again how it's a sinister liberal (or French perhaps) plot that is likely to result in a careful recount of votes. The margin is forty votes!!!!! With a margin like that, the result is virtually a tie, and some might suggest that it makes sense to carefully count votes so that we can be as sure as possible who the people have chosen. The margin is going to be just a handful of votes. Sloppiness works when the margin is thousands of votes, but not when it's three dozen.

And I believe that, in the current situation, the rules which govern these matters call for this last statewide recount to be manual. A hand recount. I'd be interested in hearing your criticism of this policy, and/or your theory that it's a French conspiracy or whatever. Sheesh....!