Posted on 12/01/2016 1:04:44 PM PST by Darren McCarty
Trump Campaign Files Objection to Multi-Million Dollar Taxpayer-Funded 1% Recount
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 1, 2016 – Michigan Republican Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel blasted the Stein campaign, citing the objection filed with the Board of Canvassers challenging the ridiculous petition for recount which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars but not change the outcome of the election to anything different than Donald Trump winning Michigan and Jill Stein coming in fourth place by a margin of more than 2.2 million votes.
“Jill Stein’s 1% temper tantrum cannot go unchecked,” said Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel. “Stein is not an aggrieved candidate, she cannot possibly win, and she is putting the participation of every single Michigan voter in jeopardy, for no reason, at an exorbitant cost to the Michigan taxpayers.”
The objection, filed by attorneys representing the Michigan Republican Party and the Trump campaign, noted that Michigan law requires a candidate to be “aggrieved” to be able to file for a recount, and cites Stein cannot claim to be an aggrieved candidate as she came 4th place with only 1.07% of the vote. The objection argues that because Stein hasn’t cited an injury to redress, and she cannot possibly win, Stein is not an aggrieved candidate.
The objection also cites Michigan statute, case law, and precedence including a transcript from a November 2006 Board of Canvassers meeting where the Director of Elections, Chris Thomas, rejected on behalf of the Board of Canvassers a recount petition submitted by Green Party Candidate Lynn Meadows. Thomas reported the Board rejected the petition because, the candidate did not challenge the vote in “enough precincts to actually affect the outcome of the election.” Board of State Canvassers Hearing Transcript, November 27, 2006, pp. 1-2.
Meadows ran for Michigan Secretary of State against incumbent Terri Lynn Land in the November 2006 election. Meadows received 70,218 votes (1.89%) to Land’s 2,089,864 (56.15%) which would have required Meadows to receive an additional 2,019,646 votes in a recount. Stein’s margin to recover is larger. Stein only received 51,463 (1.07%) to Trump’s 2,279,543 (47.5%), requiring Stein to gain 2,228,080 in a recount effort.
The objection cites rulings on the aggrieved issue from other jurisdictions as well.
The objection also claims that Stein waited until “minutes before the deadline, making a recount impossible under state and federal guidelines” despite being able to file much earlier. The objection states Stein is calling for the longer hand recount to ensure a recount would not be finished by the required federal and state deadline of December 13.
The objection also states that Stein’s recount petition was not validly notarized, and therefore, is invalid. Stein’s petition was notarized in Massachusetts and left out critical requirements. Per Michigan law, the flaw in the notarization should cause the recount petition to be rejected.
The Board of Canvassers will address the complaint tomorrow at their scheduled meeting.
Michiganders looking to get involved should visit migop.org/recount.
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The board will roll over and accept her recount application.
Stein, Hildabeast, and Soros seeking to financially punish these states...
So, is this what the Romney/Trump meetings might have been about?
She is Mitt’s niece. He has 5 sons - no daughters.
Niece of Mitt.
No one who gets 1% of the vote should be allowed to apply for a recount.
It is stunning when the vote totals are put forward. She was barely on the map coming in FOURTH with only 1% of vote. Shamefully arrogant witch!
Trump
47.6%
2,279,805
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Clinton
47.3%
2,268,193
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Johnson
3.6%
173,057
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Stein
1.1%
50,700
Those are all excellent legal points. If the Board rolls over for the recount in light of these facts Trump should head straight to court and force the board to rule by the letter of the law.
This is definitely what the Soros, Fauxchahantas, Pelosi meeting was about.
Sadly, I think the smart money is placed on this side of the issue.
So why did they set the filing deadline on a date at which it's impossible to finish the recount in time to meet the electoral deadline?
niece.
I stuffed envelopes at his campaign office while my parents were doing something else...in Detroit as a child.
It is not her, it is the stupidity of the recent law.
No one has called me yet. :-)
Bravo. You have to nip these tricks in the bud. Call the liberals on each one of their shenanigans and schemes - be bold. Be resolute. Don’t take any cr** from these people because they know how to sling it and they will continue to try to wear you down by death by a thousand cuts. Show them we are strong and we will fight them every step of the way. Those people are sick people. The Democrats and their kind are what we jokingly have called the Democratic Mafia - they are a kind of Mafia because they band together for THEIR OWN GOOD TO HURT OTHERS - they have gotten away with too many tricks for too long and no one has called them upon it.
Yes.
Niece, I think.
I think Occam’s Razor applies here. (The simplest answer is most likely.) Stein started this recount nonsense on the basis that if she could get $1 million, she would pursue it. Whoa, within a few days she had $1.5 million. About as much as she had seen through the whole campaign. So she kept upping the ante. Now she has $7 million. So she has to make it look good by pursuing until a court or a state authority turns her down. At which point she owns $7 million she never expected to have. What’s the old saying? “Follow the money!”
Send the bill To SorosStein.
Volunteer multiple times like their illegal voters do. Congratulations and have fun with your freep. :D
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