Posted on 12/07/2016 2:47:55 PM PST by bobsunshine
Updated at 2 pm
Jill Steins Pennsylvania recount attempt continues to sputter, with a Wednesday ruling from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas denying her request to have the citys electronic voting machines examined.
The request to forensically study the machines was considered by her lawyers to be one of the best ways to determine the validity of the votes, and they had previously said they thought they had a chance in court. The citys Election Board had already refused to let Steins computer experts examine the machines.
Judge Abbe F. Fletman wrote in her decision that Stein basically missed her chance to examine the machines. Stein and any other candidate legally had the opportunity to monitor tests of the machines administered by the Election Board the before, during and after the election, she wrote, and could have even made independent tests during the election process provided the testing didnt interfere with the tabulation of votes. She noted Stein and her associates did not make clear whether they took advantage of these opportunities, and wrote that state law doesnt allow for more independent testing as requested by Stein.
This is especially true when, as in this case, there is absolutely no evidence of any voting irregularities, Fletman wrote. To the contrary, the elected and appointed officials charged with safeguarding our voting system uniformly maintain its integrity.
This court action was slightly different from the recount that already took place in Philadelphia. Over the weekend, the city recounted electronic votes and paper ballots from 75 of Philadelphias 1600-plus voting districts. Hillary Clinton ended up with five more votes from paper ballots that were not detected by an optical scanning system, and City Commissioner Al Schmidt said the recount turned up no evidence of possible hacking or fraud.
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Jill Stein HAS NO STANDING TO DEMAND ANYTHING.
I HOPE THE JUDGES IN ANY COURT INVOLVED IN THIS DISGUSTING DISPLAY OF STUPIDITY .. WILL AGREE WITH PA AND STOP THIS MESS.
IT’S NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING .. THE MORE THEY LOOK, THE MORE VOTES THEY’RE FINDING FOR TRUMP .. yet they keep insisting that Russia hacked their voting machines.
LISTEN UP - VOTING MACHINES ARE HOOKED UP TO THE LOCAL REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OFFICE .. NOT THE INTERNET. PROVING MS.STEIN’S GRASP OF ELECTION RULES AND LAWS IS SORELY MISSING.
Didn’t Philly vote 110% Democrat?. The judge doesn’t even want to touch that hand grenade!
Yeah. With this imbecile, a Starbucks coffee is connected to the internet (as long as the Clinton/Soros dollars keep trickling in..). What a lefty whore.
Actually, they should absolutely “forensically” examine the voting machines. Just, right now isn’t the time to do it.
If they are in Democrat precincts, we can stipulate that whatever fraud there was, was not intended to benefit Republicans. Since Republicans won, we can let it go for now. You can bet that had GOP lost, Jill Stein would have no interest in examining the machines or the vote tally.
There is vote fraud, but it will be uncovered going into the voter rolls and demanding picture ID at registration and at the polls on election day. That, and mechanical machines that can’t be hacked or spoofed.
This is strictly to protect the Philadelphia voter fraud in place. Just like Detroit, the Republicans are not allowed to have election observers in many of these precincts because they might “intimidate” the voters. I wouldn’t give the hag much credit.
Thats right and all the other candidates who ran and won office between 2008 up until now.
Maybe she should recount all those elections too.
The Federal hearing is scheduled for Friday.
The last thing somebody on the payroll wants in Filthydelphia is for the voting machines to be forensically examined - it could potentially expose the whole voting fraud operation there - she's just keeping the lid on the whole thing.
Stein has inadvertently stumbled into territory that the Democrats do not want to see exposed.
The Michigan one - Waiting for the Judge to release his writing decision to be released. The judge recessed the court, than decided after twenty minutes he would write his opinion. There will be a hearing at 9:30 AM Thursday of the Michigan Board of Canvassers to rule on what the judge writes of his decision - many county officials ( 34 Counties - MI has 83 counties) are waiting to hear from the Board before counting resumes.
I believe that the whole intent here is to tie up everything in court up to and maybe even beyond December 19th.
Three states still in recount mode. SMFH. Anything to steal the election from Trump.
Federal safe harbor law says the electors must be chosen 6 days before the date the electors actually meet, December 19.
Would this preclude having a psychic come in and investigate? /sarc
I think it’s all over. They know now how bad the the fraud is that will be exposed if this farce goes on.
Maybe at the end of the day Jill Stein and Anthony Weiner will be unwitting enablers of American resurgence.
I agree, this was the intent from the beginning. I’m a little upset that Trump Lawyers didn’t fight this harder at the beginning to stop this madness and kept just saying it was a “scam”. Stein had an agenda and we didn’t see it until a little late. But I guess with activist judges, really can’t stop it. Hopefully Trump will start to rid the Country of these activist judges, mainly those appointed by Obama.
I guess it sounded way too kinky for the judge ...
“I believe that the whole intent here is to tie up everything in court up to and maybe even beyond December 19th.”
100% correct. They know the recount will not change the outcome, that’s why they don’t want them completed. Hand recounts are the only acceptable option of course because they are the slowest.
Wisconsin is the only state that really has them in a real pickle right now. They took their money and will not give them the outcome they expect by safe harbor because they are conducting an orderly recount in a timely fashion.
The avenues to litigate are starting to close on them in MI and in my opinion moreso in PA.
Russian secret agents skulking around thousands of polling places wielding floppy disks, for God’s sake? Yeah, that sounds likely.
Mr. Trump had to be careful how he reacted to this. Stein, Cankles and their evil minions kept trying to get him to step into the “What are you so afraid of?” trap. I think he and his team has handled the situation well so far.
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