Michigan Quotes
She had petitioned for a recount of the close elections in Pennsylvania, and two other states, However, the arcane Pennsylvania election laws together with an inclination on the part of election officials in Pennsylvania not to do a recount, produced a process that was really ineffective as a check on the original vote and any errors that might ahve been made. In general, state election officials do not like recounts in Presidential elections. If the results were wrong and the stat's electoral votes should have gone to another, the politics of the state are destabilized and tust in the state election system is seriously eroded, and they are blamed. However, even if the results are not reversed, typically totals for a number of districts change and they are called upon to explain the discrepency which most often is attributed to weaknesses in the system which do not sufficiently eliminate human error, There are calls for investigations and the consequences continue, often for years. Most scientists studying the various state election processes, agree that some states systems are very weak, and there are many errors in elections, but they are rarely of sufficient magnitude toe change the results of the election. Reform of the system in many states and local areas becasue most politicans are reluctant to spemd more money on the election processes and system.
