Posted on 12/05/2016 5:06:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
The great Philadelphia recount has ended, and Hillary Clinton got five more votes than she had in her previous total.
Donald Trump’s number stayed the same, as did the totals for Independent candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein after the City Commissioners Office recounted votes in 75 of Philadelphia’s more than 1600 voting divisions. The recount had been launched by 250-plus Philadelphia residents answering the call of Stein, who asked for three petitioners in each of Pennsylvania’s voting district to file recounts to assist in her attempts to get a statewide recount through a Commonwealth Court and then Federal Court lawsuit.
Stein’s camp had planned on using the district-level recounts as possible evidence for hacking or fraud. The recount turned up no instances of fraud or hacking here, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said, emphasizing the difficulty of hacking voting machines that aren’t connected to the internet.
“We have very primitive voting machines here,” he said. “Our voting system is only vulnerable to individual cases of voting fraud, as we’ve seen. Whenever it does occur it would be someone going in and voting for somebody else or an election board manually adding votes, which is an entirely different thing than hacking.”
The five extra votes for Clinton, he said, came from paper provisional or absentee ballots that were undetected by the optical scanner that counted votes in the days following the election. Schmidt said this can happen when people don’t mark their choices clearly on paper ballots or, ridiculous as it sounds, use a green highlighter instead of a pen or pencil.
Attention Progressive! The recount isn’t working because you haven’t sent enough money! Send more money now!
She was only able to steal 5 votes thanks to diligent observers!
Good.
The kind of voting fraud I worry about can’t be uncovered by simply re-counting the votes, in fact for me that just opens the door for vote fraud.
The kind I worry about has to be solved by auditing the registry, and demanding photo ID both at registration and at the polls on election day. Very limited mail-in balloting permitted.
CRUSH THESE COMMIES!!!!
CRUSH THESE COMMIES!!!!
If Philly phails H->, the ‘Rats are cornered.
Maybe some H=> voters used crayons to mark their ballots.
You joke, but there is now a group soliciting money to recount in Florida. I thinking about starting a gofundme recount page.
Follow up:
Hillary and the Dems have opened the door to Trump having a review of ALL voting in federal elections by AG Sessions.
Do an audit of, say, California and determine how many illegal votes were cast.
MAJOR screw up by Dems to open this door as they are the ones cheating and will be outed once a real investigation is done.
Good point.
When this is over Stein is going to pose like she did the country a great service verifying the vote when all she did was spend a shitload of cash on a fishing expedition. I think Mz. Stein has been the victim of fake news published by the Huffington Post and the networks.
....Big money burn by leftists. Gotta love it...
That’s OK. As always, liberals are spending other people’s money. They are complaining now that they will have to post a one million dollar bond in Wisconsin for costs. But, as I said...other people’s money.
The Russians need to up their game if the best they can do is five votes.
I wonder whose money these idiots wasted. Whoever it was, they deserve it.
Lol!
Is it possible that they wanted these recounts in states that they knew would come out with very little change, so that when they are done with these three, they will declare that as proof that there is no cheating and that there should not be any questions raised in the future about it ?
If philly doesn’t magically find mucho H votes, it’s all over
Problem is, at least in Michigan, they’re burning taxpayer’s money. That’s bad, and that’s but one reason that the recount nonsense in MI needs to stop.
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