A few people today have asked me what rechecking involves so here is the thread so I don't need to answer that one again. On election night it's important to strike a balance between speed and perfection and there will always be some counting errors the first time.
Booth counts from the first weekend are checked over coming days including checking that votes are actually formal (easy to miss doubled/skipped numbers on long papers), that they are in the right pile, that they are tallied correctly etc.
This also catches and fixes errors like the ones I detected in #Lyons and #Gilmore (where numbers were written down the wrong way round in data entry - rare event but does happen.)
Rechecking is not the same as the kind of intensive formal recount that occurs when seats finish very close. At that stage all the votes have been checked repeatedly but there still can be very small errors, and also changes in rulings about whether ambiguous votes are formal.
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