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The Philly recount is done, and it didn’t help Hillary much at all
Billy Penn ^

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016recount; pa2016; philly
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To: rfp1234

Maybe some H=> voters used crayons to mark their ballots.
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Prize goes to you for funniest statement on this thread!


21 posted on 12/05/2016 5:22:12 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: Vesparado
Attention Progressive! The recount isn’t working because you haven’t sent enough money! Send more money now!

Tell me about it!

I really need to come up with a recount grift. Everyone's got a web site with a PayPal link promising to "count every vote" and "uncover the fraud."

Some joker in Florida just raised $65k for a recount that has zero chance of taking place! Sixty five thousand!

I thought birtherism was a good scam but Orly Taitz got nuthin' on Jill Stein. Seven million in a week! There's serious money to be made in promising a magical election do-over. Strike while the iron is hot!

22 posted on 12/05/2016 5:23:02 PM PST by Drew68
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To: TigerClaws

At this rate Stein will run out of money, unless all the attorneys work for nothing. She has only raised $7.2 million and over $5 million has to go to the three states for fees.
Add to that the cost of recount observers.

According to her own web site, she is already underwater by $500,000 and new money is coming in very slowly.


23 posted on 12/05/2016 5:23:51 PM PST by MaxistheBest
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To: MaxistheBest

At this rate she will be $2-2.5 million short.


24 posted on 12/05/2016 5:24:57 PM PST by MaxistheBest
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To: UCANSEE2

That is a possibility but I think most of the fraud occurs at the registration level. Persons with multiple registrations, fake voters, illegal alien voters. We need a serious examination of the registration rolls and the absentee ballot requests. And early voting should be declared un- Constitutional. Doesn’t it actually say all voters should cast their votes the same day?


25 posted on 12/05/2016 5:27:26 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: Rebelbase
Look what those crazy Russians did to Hillary's 12,000-person crowd!!! There must have been at least 25 people there!! It all came from Moscow!!! /aaaah!! liberal heads explode!!




26 posted on 12/05/2016 5:28:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: TigerClaws

Who is “Billy Pen?”

Thanks.

5.56mm


27 posted on 12/05/2016 5:30:02 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s certainly going to be the RATS talking point when the Trump Administration goes after the illegal alien vote.

But, we will also use her argument that the voting system isn’t trusted, and it will be a priority for reform and prosecution of voter fraud.

Nevada will be ground zero IMO.


28 posted on 12/05/2016 5:30:41 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: M Kehoe

Penn.

5.56mm


29 posted on 12/05/2016 5:31:19 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: meyer

What is the cost to my neighbors in Michigan? Is there a total or a running tab?


30 posted on 12/05/2016 5:32:59 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: ez

When this is over Stein is going to pose like she did the country a great service
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If, an after-election investigation of voter fraud nationwide exposes a criminal conspiracy by Democrat Party operatives to steal the Presidential election and other elections, Stein will indeed have done the country a great service, albeit completely unintended.


31 posted on 12/05/2016 5:33:49 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Time for the 'TRUMP 2020' yard signs)
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To: MaxistheBest
According to her own web site, she is already underwater by $500,000 and new money is coming in very slowly.

I would like to think once word gets around about how little the vote totals are changing, new money would come to a near stop. But then there's Soros, who really needs to be dealt with.

32 posted on 12/05/2016 5:34:53 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: marron

The State of Oregon does ONLY mail-in balloting.

Funny thing .. only Democrats win the elections ..??????


33 posted on 12/05/2016 5:35:41 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: TigerClaws; Liz; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Doogle; mosaicwolf; tet68; yoe; fella; WENDLE; ...

Why things went the way they did on election day.

It was pointed out to me that on election day the Democratic vote started out with a pretty healthy lead – and then the Republicans got home from work.


34 posted on 12/05/2016 5:37:12 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: TigerClaws

35 posted on 12/05/2016 5:37:39 PM PST by nralife
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To: ez

Just following up...early voting needs to be challenged in court.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing [sic] the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.


36 posted on 12/05/2016 5:38:26 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: lacrew

Trump won Florida by more than 100,000 votes.


37 posted on 12/05/2016 5:39:03 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: TigerClaws

“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.”

Say, you are correct.

In California people are automatically registered to vote when they show up at the DMV for a driver’s license. It’s now the law. One application has nothing to do with the other and the two should not be linked. Anyone who wants to vote should have to get themselves to the registrar of voters, which should also be open on weekends. Make off site sign-ups illegal. Perhaps have a weekend bus route that takes people to the registrar of voters, if they don’t have a car. Only voter registration using government employees should ever be allowed.

There also needs to be a strong voter ID law for all states. Showing an electric bill should not be enough to get oneself registered. If any state wants a stronger one than that or already has one, that would be allowed. Also, all this absentee balloting should be stopped. Only with an extreme reason should this be allowed to be utilized. People should be encouraged to save their voting receipt stubs.


38 posted on 12/05/2016 5:39:24 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: TigerClaws

Big money burn by leftists. Gotta love it!

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Yep got pumped into the economy in a few locations and
some have a little more to spend for Christmas, etc.


39 posted on 12/05/2016 5:40:07 PM PST by deport
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To: TigerClaws

they cant just find thousands of votes just for clinton.

they cannot overcome the fraud tied to that statistical impossibility.


40 posted on 12/05/2016 5:41:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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