The Secretary of State's attorney Jeff Even is a decent fellow, but he has the unenviable job of arguing Sam Reed's often silly positions in the election contest. One gets the impression that Reed thinks its more important to protect election officials from having to take responsibility to do anything than to defend the integrity of the election.

Yesterday, as the WSRP daily summary reports

The lawyer for the Secretary of State objected that voter crediting information could not be used to prove anything about who voted or how many people voted

It's obviously impossible to ask the judge to review each of 600,000 absentee ballot envelopes, so you would need to create a summary report. The only imaginable way to do this would be to hire a bunch of people (say county workers) and ask them to go through the ballot envelopes one at a time, verify that the signatures are valid and that the ballot was postmarked on time. If so, you add the voter's name to a list along with the precinct they were registered in at the time of the election. You also make sure that you don't add the voter's name to the list a second time if it's already on the list. That way you will get an exact count of everybody who voted and by precinct and you won't have to rely on the crediting records created by election workers...

... who created the crediting records by performing the same procedure described above!