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Pitkin is concerned that inefficiency in the recount will be blamed on Cambridge’s PR system...
...We’re all laughing,” said Stephen H. Owades, a computer consultant and voting software expert working on the recount...
...computerized system is a large cause of the prolonged recount process, because the order in which the computer counted the ballots must be reconstructed in order to do a hand count. Ballots must be ordered as to replicate the sequence in which they were originally counted to preserve the accuracy of the results...
...don’t think this lengthy recount really inspires confidence in Cambridge’s elections system,” Pitkin said. “This is not intrinsic to proportional representation...
Such a system would bypass the longest part of the recount process, but would violate the state law governing elections...