Bobert said:

Why is it that they can count the votes in one day yet takes 10 months to recount them???

Assuming that that's a real question, Bobert, and not just the expression of justified frustration:

Partly because they have a huge organization throughout the state for the election, designed and organized with volunteers just for that one day, and only a small part of it for a very short time thereafter. No such preexisting organization for the recount. The logistics are different.

Then too, the recount is about tiny details, where the general election is painted with a broad brush, and there were of course allegations that there were mistakes in the initial count, the resolution of which could go either way, so the recount was done under a microscope, so to speak. They took great pains to lean over backwards being careful.

Then once it got into the courts, "the mills of the gods grind exceeding slow"; it's the nature of the beast. And there are times set by the rules for one party to submit something, followed by prescribed times for the opposing party, and diminishing times for the original party, and then the answering party. Then there has to be time for argument worked into the court's schedule, and a date has to be found when all the lawyers can be there, which can be difficult under the best of circumstances, let alone when one side wants to drag things out. After argument, the court has to have time (set by the rules) to research and think and write its opinion and judgment. And then of course whichever party lost on the first go-round will ask for reconsideration, and the whole process is off to the races again.

And then some new motion can be filed by the foot-dragging party (Coleman), and all of the above may have to be done again.

Then an appeal to an appellate court, and ditto, ditto, ditto ad nauseam. And when Coleman lost there, he could and did appeal to the State Supreme Court, and you guessed it, the whole merry-go-round under the rules has to go on again.

The delay was only minimally caused by the actual recounting.

Dave Oesterreich