Reply #42: Thanks, but that wasn't wasn't what I meant.

[Patsy Stone]

I was talking about something like the "2000 Florida Ballots Project". This wasn't an official recount, but an after the fact, "let's see what really happened here" recount headed up by a media consortium. http://electionstudies.org/florida2000/sponsors.htm

This was the group who determined that Gore won, and would have been declared the winner if there had been a statewide recount, not the cherry-picked counties Gore's camp wanted -- a choice which eventually led to the equal protection argument which, among other things, sank BvG.

My comment was directed towards this sort of public/private "forensic" recount effort, and why it hasn't happened. Was it a lack of curiosity? Were the ballots unavailable? There would seem to be a desire to get to the bottom of this, in an official capacity or not. I was just wondering out loud why it hasn't occurred.