Posted on 11/28/2016 12:44:21 PM PST by Mr. K
Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She's got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there's one thing she needs to overturn Trump's victory: a calendar.
Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin.
"According to Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday, "the deadline for a voter-initiated recount was Monday, Nov. 21."
Allied with Clinton's camp, Stein can still mount a legal challenge. While the chances of litigation are uncertain, the vote tally is clear. Trump beat Clinton in Pennsylvania, a feat not accomplished by a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1988.
While it wasn't a landslide, it wasn't close either. Trump carried the state with 70,000 votes, a significant margin that will be hard to overcome.
And even if Stein manages a recount in Pennsylvania, nothing's guaranteed. Of the thousands of statewide races in the last 15 years, only 27 have been decided by recounts and only three challengers have pulled off an upset.
Deadlines? Pfffft. Ask Senator Frank Lautenberg about these
Compared to the incompetent boobs that are currently running the vogerment?
Ivy League lawyers...
15 seconds behind the other post...
She missed the deadline! She’s dead Jim!
Not incompetent. They ran this scam just like the government.
Look what happened:
1) They riled up the base.
2) The got donors.
3) They can now spend that cash how they want.
I wonder how many more Philadelphia voting districts they can switch to 100% Hillary?
To be fair, Jill Stein never had any chance of running the government.
Man, I need to raise 7 million dollars........
No she missed the deadline for a recount she is now filing to “contest” the election via voters from the districts. She is still moving forward.
“Since Ronald Reagan in 1988.” FAIL!!
This whole thing was a holiday weekend social media fund-raising scam. Now that the state officials who have not been in the office since at least last Wednesday are back to work, the whole thing fall apart. I saw this coming.
Makes me wonder if this recount scheme was devised in a bar during Happy Hour.
I don’t think anyone in her camp is upset. They made the ‘effort’ and now get to keep the $$$$$. Seems plausible that was the plan from the beginning.
Exactly!
Fill'n in for The Torch with less than 54 days to go before the election. Still pisses me off.
There is a God and he does love us!
The courts will deny her. She is fighting a losing battle.
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