Posted on 11/25/2016 4:32:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced Friday that it would hold a statewide recount of the presidential vote. The move was in response to petitions from two candidates, the Green Party's Jill Stein and independent Rocky Roque De La Fuente.
Federal law requires that all recounts be finished 35 days after the election, which is Dec. 13. One or both of the candidates will be required to pay for the recount.
"We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice," said Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Mike Haas in a statement.
"We plan to hold a teleconference meeting for county clerks next week and anticipate the recount will begin late in the week after the Stein campaign has paid the recount fee, which we are still calculating."
Haas added that the process is very detail-oriented and he is concerned that some counties will be challenged to finish on time. In a recount, ballots must be examined to determine voter intent before being counted.
Stein has been leading the effort to force general election recounts in certain swing states. Her effort continues to gain steam — and money.
On Wednesday she announced she would demand recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Michigan is still too close to call.
To cover the cost of the recounts, Stein launched a fundraising campaign, which has raised more than $5 million in less than three days.
Stein's fundraiser website explicitly says the campaign is not an effort to help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but to "ensure the integrity of our elections." Clinton has not commented on the efforts.
The deadline to file for a recount in Pennsylvania is Monday and Michigan's is Wednesday.
Before the announcement was made, Haas called a potential recount "uncharted territory," according to Laurel White with Wisconsin Public Radio. White reported:
"State law allows any candidate on the ballot to request a recount, but if the margin is more than 0.25 percent, the candidate must pay for its cost. "Haas said the recount would cost at least $500,000. "The commission is reviewing state law to determine when that money would be due.
" 'There's a little bit of ambiguity in the statutes,' Haas said. 'In one place, it states that the fee must be paid at the time the petition is filed; another statute indicates once the petition is filed, that's when our agency calculates an estimate.'
"Once a recount order is issued by the commission, clerks across the state have 13 days to complete it, Haas said."
Stein initially set a fundraising goal of $2.5 million. As donations started pouring in, that goal jumped to $4.5 million, as New York Magazine's Yashar Ali pointed out on Twitter.
By Friday, the goal had jumped again, to $7 million. The campaign says that will go to cover filing fees, attorney fees and other associated costs.
Donations are still rolling in, but as Stein's fundraising website states, money doesn't necessarily mean the recounts are assured: "We cannot guarantee a recount will happen in any of these states we are targeting. We can only pledge we will demand recounts in those states."
If the recounts don't happen, what will become of all that money? Stein's website says any "surplus will also go toward election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform." It did not specify what those efforts would be.
As NPR's Camila Domonoske told the Newscast unit, "Some security and election experts have publicly called for paper ballots to be checked in Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan, to make sure that the computers that counted those ballots weren't hacked." But, she says, "There's no evidence that the electronic machines were hacked or the election was compromised."
Busted! Jill Stein’s Election Recount Is Being Paid For By a Bot!
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=50879
Soros could have thousands of bots or even botnets in the USA donating to Jill Stein’s website.
Stein had to let them in to pass the “Prove you’re not a robot” tests.So Soros , Stein, Hillary in on this “recount” in WI , PA ,MI, a scheme to flip all 3.
Don’t know all the details just a tiny bit. soros knows it all and this was plan 3 after his paid riots etc. Soros is funding most of this recount in WI
You have GOT to be kidding me!
Michigan was called,and it wasn’t close.
Soros
...and where is Governor Scott Walker???...
Trump needs to take this travesty to court first thing Monday morning. Stein lacks sufficient standing as an aggrieved party. At 1%, she has no stake in the outcome of a recount in any of these states.
Why is George Soros still alive?
If the Democrat is losing, it’s close if the Republican is ahead by under 100k votes.
Oh Noes!!
because he’s afraid of dying and facing a nice tropical weather above 6000 degress
These leftscum are really going to go there? Sigh...
It’s out of Walker’s hands....
This Soros plot is well-planned. Hmmmm, what is today? The day after Thanksgiving, a heavy travel and vacation time for many.. A day when the Soros/Hillary plot advances as others enjoy their holiday. No coincidence here.
Wait till Captain Aleppo hears about this.
Spot on
You think they “found” enough votes to give Hildabeast enough electoral votes to NOT effect the election?
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Election Recount to Begin in Wisconsin Following Green Party Petition, Officials Say
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Trump just appointed Donald F. McGahn II as W.H. Counsel. Trump isn’t worried about this crap.
“and where is Governor Scott Walker???..”
Doing his job. He can’t stop this. This is all legal thus far. Candidates have a right to call for a recall. All they have to do is get the request in by the deadline today (she did) and I suppose be able to cover the costs (her donors can).
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