More on the recount

From a letter from Kerry's lawyer in Ohio:

2. We request that each candidate be given the opportunity to select at least one precinct for a hand count, either as part of or in addition to the three percent hand count.

For those counties that use touch screen voting systems, we request that the three percent hand count include a hand count of three percent of the ballot images stored in the each of the redundant memories of the machines selected for the recount and on any paper trail for the machines.

Read the whole letter - I think that they covered their bases fairly well. However, the salient points are contained in these two sentences. The three percent recount has to show a change to recount the whole thing.

For the first part, I'd imagine that these precincts would be good candidates to be hand counted.

At the two precincts located at Benedictine, both heavily Democratic, Libertarian Michael Badnarik received 164 votes, almost half as many as Kerry, who got 334. In the adjacent precinct, Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka received 215 votes to Kerry's 299.

Because most of the problems occurred in heavily Democratic precincts, the errors seem to have cost votes for Kerry, the newspaper reported.

The second sentence above (about the images in the electronic voting machines) was news to me. I had no idea that the electronic scan machines stored images. I'm glad that it's possible to view the original ballot as well as what the machine "saw."