You know, a simple way to stop all this crap would be to require adjudicated ballots to be judged by representatives from BOTH parties, and then have a mutually trusted arbitrator to resolve conflicts if they still exist, instead of by an obscure bureaucrat sitting in a back room somewhere.

Also, we live in the information age. There is no reason why images of ballots can't be posted online, with identifiers marked out, and adjudications appended. That would put an end to this crap once and for all.