Reply #124: The official recount in 2000

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was not a full state recount, just four counties I believe.

In those four counties it was not a full manual recount of all ballots. It was a machine recount and then a manual recount of the undervotes.

However, in Miami-Dade County even the undervotes were never manually recounted. They were going to be but Bush's team staged a mob action that caused the manual recount to be stopped.

Thus the 2000 recount involved a manual inspection of only a very small fraction of the whole universe of ballots. And the machine counted portion of the count was never checked by way of a manual recount so the type of machine counting fraud that is suspected in Ohio 2004 would not have been caught by the Florida 2000 recount.