[Hoot Gibson]

Answer. Of course they were not checking the ballots. I mean, how many thousand was it that they counted without one single Trump vote, after they sent the Republican observers home, like 148 thousand or something close? You don't have to check the ballots when you're only concern is not over reporting from a known document dump, for only one candidate.Said situation BTW is a statistical impossibility.

In the end, I don't think that it will matter in Pennsylvania, but in states like Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, it appears that Secretaries of State are determined that recounts will not result in substantial changes in the vote totals. The rules for the recounts are not allowing enough Republican observers to ensure that ballots are examined any closer for defects that they were during the first count.  If there is only one observer allowed for every 10 recount tables and the same people perform the recount as performed the initial count, then the recount will be a waste of time.