Recount could lead to civil war/white riots...

[Ford_Prefect]

94. There are many points at which the vote can be modified to suit a preferred result.

"Adjusted" is my sarcasm for those processes.

In North Carolina we have paper ballots that are scanned as they go into the bin that holds them. The scanner produces a paper readout of the results. The scanners can be programmed to flip votes as they are read but can't alter the paper ballots. Such programming can be buried in the ballot layout code that determines how the ballots are read. It can also self-delete after a certain date, time or number of runs. This much has been proven possible. We do not yet know if that is what happened to the NC vote or not. The vote counts can also be modified at several points along the way to the tabulator, as has happened in Ohio.

One outstanding difference that suggests the vote in NC needs review and recounting is that the voting numbers for US senate and President don't come close to matching those for either Governor or Supreme Court Justice. In a state where party loyalty is strong and where those two positions were fought over so intensely it is highly unlikely that those numbers would vary as much as they do. It would also mean that in certain locations Democratic voters would have had to vote Republican in numbers that make no sense given the strong feelings about the Fool of a Governor and the Racist Republican Justice.

A hand recount or even a machine recount would likely show that there are discrepancies in the original count as reported.