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Between 2000-2019 out of 5,778 elections, 31 recounts, 3 elections changed

2 points by joshdance ↗ HN
Source data - https://www.axios.com/trump-biden-state-election-recount-rules-26b709d2-b5d2-4feb-9a17-670680d90572.html

My quick article - https://joshdance.medium.com/brief-history-of-recounts-229a54ee2dd2

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onecommentman
That’s roughly the order of magnitude for likelihood of death by homicide during a lifetime.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/06/us/around-the-nation-odds...

Thesis - An election is like a human life: unique, happens once, definitively ends, and there is a meaning in which it ends “correctly”.

We expect society to rule out, or identify, foul play in every death that happens. A murder is a wrong death.

We should make a strong effort to rule out or identify foul play in every election that happens, just as a matter of course. Election fraud is a sort of “wrong death” too. So don’t freak out about any investigation when it happens...

It’s like an IT system that only gets used every four years. You really care about those trouble tickets that show up every four years when it’s actually used.

Thanks for these actual numbers...