Reply #23: Yes, I thought all his replies

[Joe Chi Minh]

were incisive, pungent, and incontrovertible by anyone in good faith.
Go, plan9_pub!

Someone, elsewhere, said it was like a man being expected to lodge a million dollars in the bank, in the knowledge that the vault door would be left open.

Incidentally, as a limey, I find it incomprehensible that any individual, party organization or organization for voting integrity should be called upon to pay for recounts of palpably questionable results - other than through the normal federal tax system. As someone else, elsewhere, pointed out, "What price could be too high for honest national elections, in comparison with other calls upon treasury funds?"

Of course, the reliable resolution of a questionable result, would itself depend upon a prudently organized, federal electoral administration and management of the voting, i.e. with minimal local content, and that, ostensibly at least, non-partisan, as well as simple pencil and paper ballots. However, I'm not aware of general elections in most developed democratic countries needing recounts against possible fraud, presumably because such systems are in place.