Posted on 11/25/2016 3:38:17 PM PST by randita
Wisconsin will begin a historic presidential recount next week and the state could risk losing its ability to have its 10 electoral votes counted if it doesn't meet key deadlines next month.
Hitting a Dec. 13 deadline could be particularly tricky if Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is able to force the recount to be conducted by hand, Wisconsin's top election official said.
Stein and independent presidential candidate Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente separately filed recount requests late Friday, the last day they were able to do so. Stein received about 30,000 votes and De La Fuente about 1,500 out of 3 million cast.
One or both of them will have to pay for the recount because they lost by more than 0.25%. The cost could top $1 million.
Stein is also planning to ask for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which have deadlines next week. She has raised $5 million for the recounts in recent days — more than she raised during her campaign leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
Wisconsin's recount will likely begin late next week, once the state has tallied a cost estimate and received payment from Stein's campaign, said Michael Haas, administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Recounts will be done by county boards of canvassers, which will likely have to work nights and weekends, Haas said.
The push for a recount came as liberals raised fears about hacked voting machines. Election officials and experts say they are unaware of any problems with Wisconsin's vote tally.
Republican Donald Trump edged out Democrat Hillary Clinton by some 27,000 votes in Wisconsin, becoming the first GOP presidential candidate to win the state since 1984.
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Good Thank you !
Excellent point.
And why was the SoS - Katherine Harris, promptly kicked to the curb by the brothers Bush after she dutifully certified the election?
Just drone him.
“do the recount and then delay it so it is not complete and then have the state’s Electoral votes not be counted.’
That would seriously backfire on the Democrats. To disenfranchise a whole state is serious business. Now I wonder if Stein was a Hillary plant, in an attempt to take votes away from Trump, and it did not work.
You have a mistaken understanding of the process.
Jill want’s her house by the lake, like the one Bernie got.
yes. Granny is still plotting and scheming behind the scenes,
“I ain’t no ways tired!”
Then we need to bribe Gary Johnson to recount the Cali. vote. and make them subtract all of the aliens. Election 2016 would make 2000 look like a quickie!
Well if that happens I hope they are ready for we the people to not accept the results. I would hope even people that are still sound asleep in this country would be waking up.
What they are doing makes no sense to me, so I am wondering what they have up their sleeve.
The outcome will be that Trump WON by even WIDER margins than previously reported.
Take the money from Stein ( Soros funded ) and close the books.
Plus the millions of folks in those three states are ticked that they are being disenfranchised from the election process by hillary stein.
That's THE question, IMO.
Even if they manage to steal three states and drop Trump to 260, he still wins in the House of Representatives.
Rs could never do something like this, the media would turn them into a laughing stock at the mere suggestion of anything close to this. Just imagine if this was reversed.
I think it’s exactly what they want to do.
Soros and Clinton are paying for this scam
NH has a republican legislature, we should recount very very slowly.
“...and the state could risk losing its ability to have its 10 electoral votes counted if it doesn’t meet key deadlines next month.”
Veiled “threat” perhaps?
I trust no one on either side of the political aisle.
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