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Michigan Recount Update for Dec. 7: What’s Happening so Far?
Heavy ^ | December 7, 2016 | Jessica McBride

Posted on 12/07/2016 3:52:21 PM PST by bobsunshine

The historic Michigan recount has been underway since Monday in a few counties, but it could end December 7 because of a state court of appeals ruling.

The next step: A hearing on the recount started at 10:30 a.m. in front of U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith. However, complicating matters, a federal appeals court issued a separate ruling refusing to block Goldsmith’s earlier ruling that the recount should start immediately. The judge now says he will make a ruling in the afternoon....

Will the recount continue? That’s unclear until the latest hearing, but Republicans trying to stop the recount won a big victory December 6 when a state Court of Appeals panel ruled that Stein didn’t have standing to seek the recount in the first place under Michigan law because she is not an “aggrieved party.” That’s because she only received 1 percent of the vote in Michigan, and a recount would still give her no chance of winning.

According to the Secretary of State, Stein received 51,000 votes out of 4.9 million ballots cast in Michigan and is alleging “fraud or mistake.”

The Detroit News said the state court ruling did not “explicitly” order the recount to stop, though, causing even some clerks to be confused about what’s going to happen next.

Confusing matters more, the federal court, on December 7, opted not to overturn the ruling that had previously allowed the recount to start. The Michigan Attorney General had sought to block the recount in federal court.

(Excerpt) Read more at heavy.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mi; recount; stein; trump
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Totals listed by County recounted. Results so far: Trump +122 Clinton +113

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1 posted on 12/07/2016 3:52:21 PM PST by bobsunshine
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To: bobsunshine

Has the Marxist 0bama Judge issued an opinion yet?


2 posted on 12/07/2016 3:53:51 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

No. Comey jr. hasn’t published his “stein has no standing so we should recount” order yet.


3 posted on 12/07/2016 3:56:01 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Paladin2

Not yet.


4 posted on 12/07/2016 3:56:41 PM PST by avkillick
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To: Paladin2

“Has the Marxist 0bama Judge issued an opinion yet?”

I assume you mean Mark “Conehead” Dickstein!


5 posted on 12/07/2016 3:58:02 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Paladin2

My money is on a continued TRO until Michigan Supreme Court makes final decision.


6 posted on 12/07/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by avkillick
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To: Eddie01

The longer he takes, the more likely he’s agonizing on how to win this for the democrats...

Most likely come out with some loony, twisted verdict forcing this scam to continue.


7 posted on 12/07/2016 3:59:59 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: avkillick

Depends on what S0r0$ says in his phone call to the “The Law Comes out of my Mouth” Judge.


8 posted on 12/07/2016 4:01:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Which will be destroyed with extreme prejudice by the 6th Circuit.


9 posted on 12/07/2016 4:04:54 PM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Alas Babylon!

You could not have said better what I have been thinking all day!

Where there’s a Dem, there’s a way! Doesn’t matter if it’s fair, logical, legal — just let ‘em do whatever they want!


10 posted on 12/07/2016 4:06:40 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“The longer he takes, the more likely he’s agonizing on how to win this for the democrats... Most likely come out with some loony, twisted verdict forcing this scam to continue.”

Yep.


11 posted on 12/07/2016 4:09:43 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: bobsunshine; Cboldt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502146/posts?page=249#249

“...the court superior over his, the 6th Circuit, has said that the federal courts will defer to the state, when the state gets around to deciding the appeal (which it did, at just about the same time the 6th Circuit went on the record upholding ‘precautionary recounting in violation of the state waiting period.’ ...”

H/t cboldt


12 posted on 12/07/2016 4:10:39 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

The 6th Circuit has warned this bozo and if he persists they will humiliate him.


13 posted on 12/07/2016 4:14:44 PM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: bobsunshine
From the article:

There were also reports that as many as half of Detroit’s votes might be ineligible for the recount because, during the canvass, the polling lists didn’t match the machine printouts of totals in many precincts. Officials were hoping the actual ballots would match, and it was possible some machines had jammed, counting votes more than once.

Oops! Dems got caught with their hand in the cookie jar stuffing ballot boxes. If there's a story here it's simply that Trump was right when he said the election was being fixed.
The mistake the left made is that they grossly underestimated by what margin they needed to cheat.

14 posted on 12/07/2016 4:16:40 PM PST by stormhill
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To: catnipman

I hay no doubt he’s not going to stop the recount. He originally said the decision would come this afternoon. He’s trying to create a legal means to ignore Mi court ruling, count on it. If he was going to stop the recount he would have by now. I hope our side is prepared for it because they should have known what an Obama hack would do.


15 posted on 12/07/2016 4:17:20 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Alas Babylon!
The longer he takes, the more likely he’s agonizing on how to win this for the democrats...

I don't think he wants to be known as the Democrat judge who drove the stake through the heart of Hillary's last pathetic, dying hope. My guess is some time after Wisconsin finishes.

(If Detroit is as FUBAR as it is rumored to be, that might not be all that bad a thing. Proof of massive incompetence and vote fraud would be a nice addition to a Trump win. Hopefully, Michigan will sue Stein to recapture the costs of the recount.)

16 posted on 12/07/2016 4:18:35 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: gibsonguy

GoldSmith is in on the delay scam.


17 posted on 12/07/2016 4:20:39 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: DarthVader
-- The 6th Circuit has warned this bozo and if he persists they will humiliate him.,/i> --

The dissenting judge over there, McKeague, already did.

18 posted on 12/07/2016 4:20:40 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: bobsunshine

Twitter Robert Snell

Just in: 6th Circuit says no to MI GOP request for entire bench review of order “inventing constitutional right to a (Jill Stein) recount.”


19 posted on 12/07/2016 4:25:10 PM PST by DvdMom
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To: Paladin2

Yes, he probably is part of delaying plan. But he’s got to come out with something that resembles a ruling soon..right? Maybe he waits until after midnight like his other one. The saying goes nothing good happens after midnight.


20 posted on 12/07/2016 4:26:22 PM PST by gibsonguy
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