Reply #23: Not true. Recount workers DID see pollbooks in most OH counties...

[demodonkey]

In counties where I worked there was no problem, and in one case they even had the pollbooks and sign-in record for the 3 percent hand count precincts already lying out on a table waiting to be checked when we got there (which, of course, raises the issue of whether or not those precincts were "random" samples, but at least the pollbooks were there.)

The workers in various counties spent differing amounts of time on the pollbooks (or were allowed differing amounts of time.) Most observers at least tried to match the number of voters on the count to the number in the books, at least for a sample of the precincts. Am not sure that any county's observers were able to check every signature in every book in a whole county (a HUGE job, if it were to be done).

Word is that SOME counties refused to show pollbooks or were reluctant about it, just as some counties were very cooperative overall and some were pretty nasty.