Posted on 11/29/2016 6:49:51 PM PST by drewh
This destroys the scheme.
Not sure. I am trying to get info from WI speaker of the house . I think, if there is a hold up, they have the ability to hold a special session and award the electors.
GOP controls WI legislature.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Governors of WI and MI introduce new legislation next year to their majority GOP legislatures changing their recount laws.
Common sense things like only those who got over 20% of the vote can request a recount to keep 1% candidates like Stein from potentially turning things upside downs. Also give the elections officer authority to turn down a recount request if they believe it is frivolous,etc.
Also limiting all requested recounts be machine recounts only - no hand counts unless the difference is under 1,000 votes of major shifts in vote totals after the machine recount.
Also the state elections officer is charged with having the cost estimate ready pre-election. for a statewide recount should someone qualified request one and requiring payment for the recount be subimitted along with the recount petition (recount petition to be rejected if no payment received with petition.
Well, I could sure use some money.
:D
Hooray!
I’d imagine each state will come up with varied ideas, but I’d like to see some core goals met.
It has to be a person who might actually win vs someone who just demands stuff out of the blue who could never win.
This situation is absurd, and I think you’re right. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see some changes.
I agree with your thoughts.
“Trump looks very confident and comfortable in that photo. Romney looks like he’s getting clobbered.”
that’s exactly what I thought too. romney looks like someone just told him his dog got run over, but he had to TRY to smile because it was actually the President who told him and photographers were present to record the moment.
Thanks
Which, even if true, would merely bring us back to “Elections have consequences”
Just because it “isn’t connected to the internet” doesn’t mean it can’t be hacked. If you believe that; I have a DVD, a CD and a USB drive for you.
Not only that, but when results get sent into the GEMS system they can be tampered with there as well.
There are a ton of avenues for nefarious action along the chain.
Regardless, Stein is a kook as is anyone that associates with her, or advocates for her.
It’s claimed the recount must be done by 8:00 pm, on Dec. 12...But what if it isn’t???
I was specific. There is nothing that supposed russian hackers could hack into using the internet. None of the voting system has any internet component for any remote hacker, as stein alluded to, to hack into.
Nothing.
Is this the final knock out punch to Stein’s walk down the Santa Monica Pier?
“Soros just wants to stall long enough that the election is forced to be decided by Congress instead of the electoral college,”
That is simply nonsense! There is no way that the EC doesn’t perform it’s Constitutional Duty and “Elect” Donald J. Trump. My bet is that at the end of the day, these three states will certify their electors and all 306 who are pledged to Trump cast their votes for him.
“No, not everyone. The judge sounds like a partisan, who’d love to order what the crazy Stein wants, but she probably figures that she’d get slapped down hard on appeal.”
Never trust anyone with a hyphenated last name! Particularly if they are a judge!
While the “judge” just had to throw her own two cents into the mix, it’s encouraging she didn’t try to overreach - presence of Trump’s legal team may have had an effect.....(that’s for those who think Trump’s been sitting on his thumbs during all this crap).
That Looserman mess was just plain embarrassing.
Stein's team has the same "evidence" to present in MI and PA. We have one Judges opinion now on the veracity of the the evidence.
This case also shows the risks we face.
“A hand recount is the gold standard, it’s the best we can do. I don’t think there’s any dispute to that,” the judge said, and she noted there’s no difference in cost to taxpayers since the campaign pays for it. “However, it’s not the court’s decision to decide the best way… I have to do what the law tells me to do.”
The Judge wants to rule for a hand recount, but the law will not allow her to. In short, a liberal Judge in all likelihood. I would also suggest a machine recount is a WHOLE LOT more reliable than a hand recount.
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