Posted on 11/23/2016 6:25:46 PM PST by Kaslin
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has announced her intention to request a recount in three swing states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. These are the same states Hillary Clinton was urged to request recounts in by a computer scientist who suggested voting machines in those states may have been hacked by Russia. Stein doesn’t mention Clinton but does say the votes should be recounted because of concerns about foreign government hacking and unreliable voting machines.
Stein’s full announcement was posted on her campaign website. It reads in part:
The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections. We are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania– three states where there is a significant need to verify machine-counted vote totals. Please donate to this initiative today.
To give you a sense of the problem, the voting machines used in Wisconsin were banned in California after they were shown to be highly vulnerable to hacking and malicious programming due to lacking security features.
There is also a direct quote from Stein who says, “After a divisive and painful presidential race, in which foreign agents hacked into party databases, private email servers, and voter databases in certain states, many Americans are wondering if our election results are reliable.” She continues, “That’s why the unexpected results of the election and reported anomalies need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust.” Emphasis in the original.
It’s true that “many Americans” are questioning the results of the election but almost all of them voted for Hillary Clinton, not Jill Stein. According to the New York Times, Stein received 1.1% of the vote in Michigan and Wisconsin and 0.8% in Pennsylvania. So there is no chance a recount could benefit her in any way, but it could (potentially) benefit Clinton.
Earlier today the computer scientist whose examination of the election results is behind the push for a recount, J. Alex Halderman, wrote a post on Medium arguing that hacking of voting machines by Russia was possible, though he also said he believed it was more likely the pre-election polls were simply wrong. Like Stein, Halderman said the vote counts should be verified for the sake of “electoral integrity.”
So at this point everyone pushing for a recount claims to be acting solely out of concern for electoral integrity, but given the timing of this announcement, the fact that it is focused on the same 3 states Halderman cited and that it mentions hacking as a concern, it’s fair to wonder if Halderman has been talking to Stein’s campaign as well as the Clinton’s campaign. Alternatively, it’s possible Stein was simply influenced by reading about Halderman’s finding. And one last possibility, maybe there some back-channel communication between the Clinton camp and the Stein camp?
The big question now is: Will the Clinton campaign piggyback on this announcement and support a recount (for the sake of “electoral integrity” of course). That would bring a cheer from progressives who are still despondent over the election results. Of course it’s also exactly the kind of challenge to the results which the media and the Clinton campaign ridiculed Trump for refusing to rule out before the election. Does Clinton really want her name associated with a late challenge that is unlikely to change the results?
Way more likely the voting fraud...if there is some is on the ballot side and done to inflate democrat votes...
Did Russia also hack Hillary’s pre election schedule? She seemed quite worried about Michigan and PA
Love to know where the money is coming from.
Jill needs a newhouse like Bernies
..Why Jill, why...
She’s a substitute for Her Heinous, who is trying to distance herself from a recount. Though, she would be the primary beneficiary. Paid off by the Clinton Crime Family.
Never heard of jill stien.
Michigan recount was done:
Trump wins Michigan (Recount) by 10,704
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/donald-trump-wins-michigan-votes/94360852/
I dont think it’s an official recount. She has to raise money to pay for it. Kind of like when Gore lost FL some PAC paid for a recount. I know the none of the state’s mentioned have hit the threshold for recounts. I believe PA is the only state where you can request a recount if you can prove voting irregularities, but it is by district. I also believe all the states, with the exception of Michigan have certified thier results. Michigan certifies on the 28th. Once a state is certified it’s official.
You know what, hopefully Trump wins reelection by 10 points and with 350 electoral votes, but they’d still call for a recount. Liberal scum will never simply accept defeat ever again. 1988 will go down in history as the last time they did.
Hope team Trump wakes up the election lawyers. Can’t have these RATS fabricating hacked voting machines.
Should be noted that hey just finished the verification process in Michigan. so....
Yup
She has strong reason to believe she received 7 votes, and not 5, in each of those states.
Jill. Fix me a samich and bring me tall cool one.
She does not have standing as there was zero chance of either Hillary or Trump getting beat by her. Hillary could argue standing.
She has no injury as a result of the election in any viable, possible outcome. Hillary cannot argue injury as other states not providing enough electoral college votes anyways makes the charge moot.
We deserve elections we can trust.
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Yes we do. We can’t expect to lose seats in the Senate lose seats in the House and lose the popular vote and continue to control the Country.
As someone on Twitter said, Jill’s probably just trying to get some pocket cash for Black Friday.
yup, and if you were to give Hillary PA and WI she’d still lose. To win WI she would have to NET 28,000 and she’d have to NET 69,000 in PA. Suck it up, it’s over. If they were to steal it from Trump at this point you’ll have riots that I can only classify as completely justifiable.
The media is gonna keep pushing until there’s a public outcry to do this.
“Why Jill, why?”
Clinton money spends just as easy as any other,
just ask Bernie. This is a Clinton trial balloon.
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