Posted on 11/29/2016 3:21:52 PM PST by randita
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A hearing has been scheduled next week in a Green Party-backed request for a court-ordered recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election result that cites a computer scientist's conclusion electronic voting machines can be manipulated by malware.
The Commonwealth Court hearing was scheduled for Dec. 5 in Harrisburg.
The court filing on Monday said the 100-plus people attaching their names to the petition believe the election result to be "illegal." A lawyer in the effort, Larry Otter, said the filing is unprecedented in Pennsylvania. The state's top elections official, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, said there was no evidence of any sort of cyberattacks or irregularities in the election. A lawyer for the state Republican Party called the filing "without any merit whatsoever."
At the same time, Green Party-backed voters sought scores of precinct-level recounts in various counties.
Here are answers to questions about the recount effort:
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WHO WON PENNSYLVANIA?
Republican Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton by about 71,000 ballots, or about 1 percentage point, capturing the state's 20 electoral votes.
No Republican had won Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and no Democrat has won the White House without winning Pennsylvania since Harry Truman in 1948.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein drew less than 1 percent of the votes cast, fewer than 50,000, but is leading the recount charge.
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WHAT'S THE POINT?
Stein has spearheaded a recount effort in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states that have a history of backing Democrats for president and where Trump won unexpectedly and relatively narrowly over Clinton.
Stein has said the purpose is to ensure "our votes are safe and secure," considering hackers' probing of election targets in other states and hackers' accessing of the emails of the Democratic National Committee and
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Let's see what happens.
Won’t be settled in Supreme Court until Trump’s justice is confirmed. I can only assume a 4-4 tie on anything regarding this. If that happens what’s next? Are the rats hell bent on having this settled in the streets?
yeah that’s great because Scalia is still alive /s. my opinion is it is just a bunch of b******* that is not worthy of the Supreme Court’s time. Florida came down to a thousand or so votes. 70000? Seriously? And you want to bother the Supreme Court on this b*******?
Stein is playing a very dangerous game that I think will backfire on her in ways she can’t imagine down the line. now it’s go For Broke for soros, stein and Clinton because they will all have hell coming towards them when Trump wins. stupid green party b****
Sorry, but it is NOT a federal election, it is 50 State elections. That makes ALL the difference. Each State establishes its own rules. The Supreme Court doesn’t have jurisdiction. See amendment 10. The Bush Florida fiasco taht went to the SC simply forced the State to adhere to it’s own laws and recount the entire State not just the counties that the Dems wanted.
She was also granted a hearing in WI to ask for a full hand recount and Hillarys lawyers have joined Stein in that hearing because they think the outcome of a full recount will benefit her:
Election Commissioner of Wisconsin, a Democrat, believes this recount is a waste of time.
No thanks.
I don't trust Roberts. He has proven himself to be a servant of the Democrats. I don't know what they have over him, but I don't trust him.
They are having a hearing in Wisconsin at 4:30 today not sure if it still going on now about the full hand recount and Clintons Lawyers joined it:
http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/judge-lets-clinton-join-recount-lawsuit/42654554
Do they want the mass Fraud they perpetrate in Philly every election Exposed for all to see??
Why are they doing this. (What difference, at this point, does it make?)
Challenging the three states that Clinton narrowly lost, thereby losing the election. About 100k more votes over those three states, she’d be President-elect.
She pretends she’s not behind the challenge and doesn’t approve of it, but no one else stands to benefit but Hillary Clinton.
Everyone thinks the numbers are too high to make up. About 75k between Philly and Pburgh. Far less in Detroit and Milwaukee.
Will anyone be surprised to hear that 100k votes were overlooked somehow?
If that happens, those votes have already been created by Democrats who didn’t expect they’d have to crank out that many ballots prior to 11/8, because the polls suggested Clinton was a shoo-in.
Their only difficulty is having to do it after the fact, in three states rather than one.
But there is no other reason to do it at all. None whatsoever. It’s to overturn the election and install Clinton as the 45th President.
Clinton deletes what she doesn’t want seen, and invents what she does want seen.
“Will anyone be surprised to hear that 100k votes were overlooked somehow?”
The deadline to submit and count additional ballots in PA has passed.
Deadlines don’t matter to Democrats. Courts can extend deadlines.
From the article:
“...[Professor] Halderman said it’s irrelevant whether machines are connected to the internet: A foreign government could break into an election office in a closely contested state and install malware on a computer that supplies the ballot design to voting machines. Such malware could shift a few percentage points of the vote to a candidate and erase itself after polls close, Halderman said.”
Well, if the malware erased itself after the polls closed, what difference would recounting the electronic ballots make in this case? Shouldn’t Stein, et al, be demanding that the computer supplying the ballot design undergo forensic examination for evidence of tampering or that the voting machines in 9000 precincts undergo a similar examination?
By the way, with no Internet connection, how were the voting machines loaded with the ballot in the first place? Thumb drive?
One last question. Has there been any evidence of a break-in?
Speculation upon speculation upon speculation.
No recounts will happen in PA, deadline passed. Both witches (did I misspell the first letter?) are trying to contest the election as a whole. If they convince the judge, the court will declare the elections illegitimate and (I am speculating) will have no alternative other than order the new election. Unlikely...
Smart “Professor” Halderman (PhD in 2009) assumes that foreign governments have supernatural abilities to predict how each state will vote. Why wouldn’t the same foreign governments conduct their evil activities in CA and be done with it? Or in NY, for that matter?
I would love to spit in the distinguished professor’s face while he’s counting his bloody money...
If the recount efforts are designed to delay final vote certification in those three states beyond the date of the electoral college vote, then the person who loses the most is Donald Trump since he won all of the electors in those states. Thus the long recount can make those electoral votes to be “lame ducks”. Trump should fight fire with fire, pull out a few million dollars and demand a recount in California. Ripe state to demonstrate voter fraud and it would tie up the 55 electoral votes that Hillary “won” there.
Stein et al are now in court in Madison where there are only leftist judges who always rule in favor of other leftist petitioning for her requested hand recount of all three million odd votes - there is no way that could be done in less than one or two months - thus taking Wisconsin’s electoral votes out of the mix and casting further doubt on DJT’s legitimacy, the Electoral College system, and all of America’s election processes. Among other things this is another effort to institute mob rul by raw votes into the presidential election and eliminate the electoral college by some magic.
The efforts in PA and MI as well as any other states can be challenged will lied to similar outlooks and outcomes.
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