I think it would make sense to review the ballots in question again, yes.

Edit: but the intent of some (or all) of those may be very obvious to the human eye, though not clear to a computer.

If two hand counts differed, I’d be more concerned. That might indicate that some ballots are not clearly marked for computer or for human reading.

But yes, again, I think when it’s this close, some extra scrutiny on the ballots in question is in order.

I think your question assumes a level of arbitrariness above what exists.

The machines are coded to read ballots in certain ways. If a ballot is damaged in some way (a crease in the target area for example), the computerized reading can be wrong.

However, if a human looks at the damaged ballot, the intention of the voter may be absolutely clear.

The hand-recount includes a process to adjudicate those.

While I think that a difference of one vote only should require a second round of review, it’s not like two people counted out a pile of cards and got different numbers. The ballots in question here are a small minority of the total ballots and it’s not a question of counting error but reading error.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, unless you’re intentionally erasing nuance to create a strawman.

If a count is within narrow margins a recount makes sense, because everyone knows there can be small anomalies. Everyone also agrees that there are a small number of people who commit election fraud.

What most people realize is that those anomalies and fraudulent votes are not enough to swing an election outside a very slim margin.

I really enjoy the Cape off-season. It’s beautiful. But I think the physical beauty is mostly at the Provincetown end.

There’s no law saying what bathroom someone must go to. Only laws saying that people can’t bar you from the bathroom of the gender with which you identify.

I don’t think you’re in the wrong.

I do think that every reply saying you should callously use gender identity to skirt the rules is in the wrong, though.

Not sure when you worked in a group home, but that is not MA law now.

Will you have a car available, do they like snow sports, and do you want to focus strictly on Boston itself, or the region?

Gorgeous.

Aligning one’s fears with statistics is always a good idea!

I have not actually driven in Boston much since the big dig, so I don’t have much personal knowledge of the difference. But from a driving perspective as well as a walking perspective the Expressway was hell, from my memory. Especially going to the airport.

Love Storrow Drive though. Maybe screws up the riverfront but a driving dream.

Indeed. That’s what I referred to above with the expressway.

I guess this looks to me like 2021 > 1969, unless I’m missing something?

The 1969 expressway is awful.

Edit: Big dig was probably not the best solution but it is a bit better than previous, it seems to me

This is just how analogy works. They made the analogy. I pointed out the flaw, analogy-wise.

In any case, one can make analogues between two things in different systems. There’s nothing wrong with that. In each case, police killed a citizen without cause.

No. She was killed by police brutality, as he was killed by police brutality.

For Floyd, it was because of a $20 alleged counterfeit bill; for Amini it was because of a hijab.

In both cases the police are the killer. In one the hijab was the prompt and in the other the $ was the prompt.

So the hijab is analogous to the $, not to the police. The police are analogous to the police.

The hijab itself did not kill her, so the analogy to the police who killed George Floyd is not apt. She too was killed by police.

It would be like naming a day “$20 counterfeit bill day” in his memory.

I agree the naming of this day is inappropriate

I mean, just look at the dynamic of Elon, Ye, and Trump supporting each other in their celebration of owning social media companies and Ye complaining about Biden not meeting with Musk because for whatever reason billionaires should be at the head of the table.

So, yup.

I won’t believe this is fact (or not) until there is more evidence made public, but I won’t find it hard to believe if the evidence is there. Sht like this does happen, unfortunately. It will be more than sad if this is another instance.

Sorry that you are learning that NH lives up to its reputation.

The dissonance is in you denying the impact of racism.

No. It’s amendment for racism.

That you don’t understand the difference between ‘atonement’ and ‘amendment’ is a problem and probably one of the sources of your active racism.

No. It’s in economics and urban density and inequality.

We’re two generations on from enforced segregation. We’re still in the throes of voluntary segregation. Black communities are still targeted by policing and law.

Stop with this BS.

Of course. But that’s irrelevant.

Of course. That would be doubling down on racism, not amending it.