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In reply to the discussion: 2 letters Requesting VP Harris to Request of Demand Recounts of 2024 Presidential Election [View all]Igel
(36,082 posts)(And it's unclear, at least to me, if his data are accurate, look around DU for the counterclaims. Before looking at any claim, always examine the data or letter those more knowledge and who are unbiased examine the data in a clear, hard, unbiased manner.)
https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/news/2012/09/24/spoonamore-s-wide-range-interests/19488674007/
He's been CEO and started a lot of startups, so he's obviously a go-getter and a smart guy, but it's far from clear that he's actually worked in security; most of his IT startups have involved making hardware and hiring similarly smart people that work for him.
He's a lifelong (R) that ran as an (I) against a (R) in a Ohio district election and lost. (https://ballotpedia.org/Stephen_Spoonamore). That right there produces a certain amount of cognitive dissonance.
Harris can call for a full hand recount, but that's going to take a hell of a lot of $ and a hell of a lot of time and states are under the gun to make sure that their votes are certified, the electors vote in their home states, and then the electors' results are received by the archivist. https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/key-dates That gives 24 days from today (not from when the request is made and recounting starts), and would be sure to be slowed down by all sorts of claims and counterclaims and couldn't start in some places until the current legal issues are resolved and there's an official count that could be subject to a recount.
Miss some of the deadlines and you wind up disenfranchising some states' voters and that's a problem.