If the re-count has officially started because of the Stein maneuver, then the count gets delayed past when the count can be completed, the electors cannot vote when the electoral college meets. This disenfranchises every, single voter in the entire state.
Trump will be blamed for it because of his “obstructionist move to ensure having a fair vote. Now everyone lost their vote. Thanks Trump!”
You seem to off your meds....
If the re-count is officially stopped because of the Trump maneuver, then everyone’s vote counts.
It's been more than 200 years since a state's electoral votes were not counted in a presidential election (New York didn't get theirs certified in time in 1789). The State of Michigan will certify its votes based on the results it has in hand at the time it's required to do it.
If it was that easy to cancel a state's electoral votes, it would have been done with boring regularity since the country was founded.
Been watching CNN again?
“...electors cannot vote...”
Whaat? Really? I highly doubt this!
Nobody will be disenfranchised. If push comes to shove and the legal wrangling is still going on when the electoral college deadline rolls around, a federal judge will quickly put a stop to the recount using Bush v. Gore 2000 as the binding legal precedent and the original count will stand.
Do you think the 4d chess master knows not what he is doing or is doing what he does not think needs to be done?
At less-than 10% of the overall vote, can Stein prove harm?
For the tenth time, no, it doesn’t work that way.
The U.S. Constituion empowers state legislators to approve/name/certify a slate of electors. PERIOD.
Whether there is a count, a recount, Count Dracula, it DOESN’T MATTER. I’m sure the state of Michigan’s constitution similarly has a phrase, as do all states that I know.
If this is “tied up,” the electors are selected, vote, Trump is president. Stop the hysterics.
That would disenfranchise the State of Michigan (not the voters, the State). The dirty little secret is that the United States elect (not elects) the POTUS. The states “appoint” Electors to cast ballots for POTUS; traditionally the states appoint all of their Electors according to a single popular election. All except Nebraska and Maine, which each appoint only two of their Electors according to that rule, and appoint another Elector according to the winner of the popular election in each Congressional District.“Everyone knows” that the people elect the POTUS - except that they don’t. THE STATES elect the POTUS, by appointing the Electors. By tradition the states choose popular election to appoint their Electors. But that is a state decision, and Nebraska and Maine do that a little differently than the others.
It is up to the State of Michigan to protect its own franchise. State laws, I am confident, were never written to allow the State to default in its “appointment” process. And I am therefore confident that the courts in Michigan will find a way to conclude the “voting” (as Bill Clinton freudian-slipped in alluding to the recounts in Florida in 2000) in time for Electors to be appointed in time to cast ballots on December 19.
(IANAL)
All this noise about recounts is intended to cloud the legitimacy of the Trump Administration. Mr. Trump however is not sitting on his hands but is making executive decisions and has jawboned Carrier into keeping some jobs in Indiana which had been slated to go to Mexico. The more he establishes in the public mind that he will be an effective POTUS, the more difficult that delegitimating effort will become.
In reality Trump is not a conventional Republican, and the parties could experience a possibly salutary shakeup due to his administration. Back when he made to sexist comment that Hillary tried to ride to the White House, Trump was a Democrat!. His appointments have been very good, and his list of SCOTUS candidates is by all accounts excellent. But I’m quite certain that he will do some things that make me cringe. But there it is . . .