Ballot recounting largely amounts to delving into statistical noise.
Certainly it was a source of astonishment in Britain, where people were genuinely puzzled about why Americans needed anything more complicated than the simple piece of paper and stub of pencil that British voters use to choose their members of Parliament. It took only a few days before war was declared on chad and people started talking about electronic and online voting systems as the answer to everything. By that time the experts were already heading them off at the pass. Electronic and online voting systems are not going to provide perfect systems, basically because the specifications for elections are very complex. They must be easy for the broadest of audiences to use.