As today's Morning Election Digest on the VA-AG race points out, we may have some sort of manual recount of optically scanned ballots in that race. I'm not familiar enough with the new law to know whether a manual review of every ballot in every county is something either side can demand in a recount, or whether that side would have to show some cause to do a full hand count. But whatever the rules in this specific case, in general we shouldn't let what happened in FL 2000 create an unthinking enthusiasm for hand counting in every case.
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