Michigan Recount Laws (Jill Stein should have no standing to ask for a recount)

Citizens for Election Integrity ^

[dirtboy]

Close Vote Margin: Vote count difference (not percentage-based)

Recounts initiated by a close vote margin are mandatory if the close vote margin is triggered, but only at the statewide level. This requirement applies to both initiatives and candidates in any primary or election, except for partisan offices in which more than one person is elected. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.880(a)(1). Additional exceptions are noted in the Bureau of Elections “Election Recounts” manual (see page 5): The margin is set at 2,000 votes or less, regardless of the number of votes cast in the election, and when that margin applies, neither candidates nor voters would be required to file a petition as set forth below to initiate a recount.

Candidate-Initiated Options: Close vote margin required (in certain cases) Candidate determines how many/which precincts to recount Party official may petition for candidate

Any candidate at the county, city, township or village level “who believes he or she is aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake in the canvass or returns of the votes” may apply for a recount of one or multiple precincts with the appropriate canvassing board. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.862.

A candidate for an office canvassed by the board of state canvassers or is the office of representative in Congress, state representative, or state senator for a district located wholly within 1 county may petition for a recount of the votes. The petition must allege that the candidate is “aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake in the canvass of the votes by the inspectors of election or the returns.” Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879(1).

Section 168.879 also applies to elections for electors for president and vice president since they are canvassed by board of state canvassers. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.841. However, presidential primary candidates are explicitly excluded. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879a.

In the case of elections for state senatorial and representative office decided by a close vote margin, party officials may petition for recounts. For these offices only, if the vote margin is 500 votes or less for senatorial contests and 200 votes or less for representative contests, the state political party chair is eligible to apply for a recount on behalf of the candidate and need not allege fraud or mistake. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879(2).

Timing: Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879(1)(c), 168.866(3) and 168.875.

Voter-Initiated Options: Voters may request recounts for initiatives/questions

Any individual voter who alleges fraud or error in the canvass of the votes may request a recount on ballot questions, propositions, or charter and constitutional amendments, at the state, county, city, township, school district, community college district, or village, level. Mich. Comp. Laws 168.880 and 168.863.

Timing: Mich. Comp. Laws 168.880, 168.866(3) and 168.875.

[No Socialist]

Politicians really are a special kind of stupid.

Jill Stein runs for President, won’t drop out, even knowing she will be taking votes from Hillary and helping Trump.

Trump wins handily and now she wants to challenge a few handpicked states to recount to help Hillary.

smh.

[Genoa]

I should think that in this context, "aggrieved" means that there is an allegation that the true outcome might have benefited the one making the complaint, and that the recount might disclose results that would be more gainful to the one alleging they are aggrieved, not to someone else.

[Cobra64]

Are you concerned Jill Stein is a viable winner?

[dirtboy]

Chill out. This is in the news right now, and I am just presenting relevant background info.

[PGR88]

Ok, the conspiracy stuff is fun, but it isnt happening.

I'm just saying - that's the method and media themes/cliches the left would use if they were to do something.

[Genoa]

At uslegal.com, we find: An aggrieved party can be any person whose financial, personal, or property rights or interests are adversely affected by an act of another or an order, judgment or statute. Seems to me Stein would have lost either way, hence no standing.

[DPMD]

Once the recounts fail, someone official should audit the money she collects.

[A_Former_Democrat]

and Jill Stein, who polled what 3% or so, somehow has legal standing to challenge vote counts?

What harm did she suffer? NONE.....she doesn’t come close regardless

[sphinx]

you've got 4 years of "never mind the Electoral College,if three states had been counted honestly she'd be President"

We have a winner. The Democrats are manufacturing a talking point, and it will be used incessantly, especially when Republicans raise vote fraud. From the 'rat perspective, it would be icing on the cake if the courts denied Stein standing.

[libstripper]

Alan Keyes was a third party presidential candidate against Obama in 2008 who repeatedly tried to challenge Obama on the birth certificate issue. Found to lack standing every time because he had no hope of defeating Obama. Similar thing here.

[damper99]

Stein wouldn’t be asking for a recount unless there are many thousand of undiscovered, uncounted ballots awaiting discovery. They’ve had almost three weeks for these to “surface”.

[Dr. Ursus]

True,she’s a Soros whore!

[CPT Clay]

Good.

[Genoa]

I remember that now! I knew that “standing” crap would come in handy someday!

[Dr. Sivana]

Did she apply for FEC funding, or is party ballot placement an issue? Sometimes there are things other than winning in play, especially for the Green Party itself.