OMAHA- After publicly questioning the reliability of election results, Ken Anderson, the Republican candidate for the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, failed to follow through with his promise to pay $2,200 to the Douglas County Election Commission for a recount by hand. The funds had to come from Anderson personally, as the large margin separating the candidates did not warrant a tax-funded recount by state law. Anderson previously stated that his plan was never to win, but to get to this point of challenging the legitimacy of voting results counted by machines.

Anderson alluded to corruption within the Omaha-based company that manufactures Nebraska's voting machines, Election Systems and Software, requesting that they not be informed of the kind of recount he wanted. His request for a recount by hand was denied, as by state law, recounts must be done in the same way votes were initially collected. He was expecting to receive funds from supporters for his recount effort, but many doubted his ability to do so without national support. "It would've taken a pledge that ended up not coming," he said on Monday.

Audits after elections completed by political groups from each side of the spectrum have found that machines typically are faster and more accurate than counting by hand. The Nebraska Board of State Canvassers randomly checked a variety of election results and found that there weren't any discrepancies between the machines and hand tallies. Variances between hand and machine counting are typically very small and inconsequential.

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