Posted on 11/25/2016 5:48:32 PM PST by drewh
The Green Party's 2016 Presidential candidate Jill Stein is announcing her intention to seek a "recount of votes in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania." The campaign's press release, posted in full below, cites "a multi-partisan effort to check the accuracy of the machine-counted vote tallies in these states in order to ensure the integrity of our elections."
The announcement follows on word that leaked out yesterday at New York magazine that top electronic voting experts and election integrity advocates have been encouraging the Hillary Clinton campaign to file for similar hand-counts and forensic analyses of electronic voting and tabulation systems in the same states. The BRAD BLOG has independently confirmed that those efforts have been under way and are still being considered at the top level of the Clinton campaign.
We discussed just some of those efforts, and a number of reasons for them, on yesterday's BradCast program. University of Michigan computer science professor Alex Halderman, who has cracked many electronic voting systems in recent years, offers additional reasons to check the results and the systems in WI, MI and PA now right here.
Dr. Jill Stein, the 2016 Green Party Presidential candidate, on her announcement earlier today that her campaign plans to file for hand-counted paper ballot "recounts" and forensic audits of the Presidential election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. [Audio link to show and full interview posted below.]
"We have to move really fast in order to basically verify the vote and be confident our votes were actually counted," she tells me, citing the many concerns brought to her by computer scientists and voting systems and election integrity experts, all questioning whether paper ballots were counted accurately by error-prone and easily-hacked computer tabulators in WI and MI, and whether touch-screen systems were manipulated in some fashion in PA.
Across those three states alone, as we have been reporting, just 50,000 votes flipped from Trump to Clinton --- out of more than 13 million ballots cast in those states, where a number of anomalous results have been found --- could change who becomes the next President of the United States.
There is plenty of reason to question whether the results as reported are accurate. And not only because of the surprising results. As I note again on today's show, University of Michigan computer science and voting systems expert J. Alex Halderman, one of those urging the candidates to call for a hand-count, has cracked many electronic voting systems in recent years. He offered still more reasons to examine both the reported results and the systems used in WI, MI and PA earlier today.
Stein, explaining that some $2 million must be raised to meet the deadline to file in WI by Friday (and another $4 million or so for the other two states next week), tells me that it's an "outrage we have to go to extraordinary lengths to verify the vote," adding she is doing so, due to her "interests as a citizen, as a person in America, that the vote be valid." (The campaign has set up a fund raising page for the effort right here.)
"Why would anyone be against counting the votes?," she asks. "It’s long been demonstrated that our system of voting, relying on these machines, has virtually no security. They’re hack friendly [and] tamper friendly."
"People have felt such anguish during this election," Stein notes. "This is a joint effort, and there are many election advocates who are involved. A lot of the grassroots election integrity experts. If ever there was a time to stand up and demand an accountable and secure vote, this is the time to do it. If we don't do it now, when exactly, what would be the cause to do it?" She also details the attempt by the scientists and advocates to encourage the Clinton campaign to take up the effort as well. (I can confirm that effort happened and that the campaign was still considering doing so as of earlier today.) She says she welcomes other campaigns, such as the Libertarian Party and independent candidates with standing, to join the effort as well.
"It feels really good to be standing up right now," she tells me. "It’s time for us to take control of our democracy to start with. To give ourselves a gift on this Thanksgiving." We discuss all of that and the many concerns about the reported results, take a few calls afterward, and actually find a bit more to be thankful for on today's program Download MP3
Soros and Hitlery handiwork.
why not NH, and maybe CA t see how many illegals voted?
to ensure the integrity of the election..?
That’s a knee slapper..
to ensure the integrity of the election..?
That’s a knee slapper..
RECOUNT NEW MEXICO!
Of course these are the same folks that are absolutely against voter ID laws. Talk about voter fraud.
They have 55 days to stop Trump and they will stop at nothing to do so. They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near those machines or ballots if at all possible.
The deadline in PA to ask for a recount has passed. The Monday deadline is to challenge the results incourt - much harder to do.
I guess she’s oki-doak with the integrity of the elections in the states that illary won....
Jill’s on the clinton and soros payroll we see
Dems at it again...ruining my Christmas. I despise them.
What this means is that they have had time to get new ballots into the hands of county election offices.
Were the ballots all sealed? Until the December 13 deadline?
This is a scam folks. The Left never gives up. If the roles were reversed they would be screaming No Way!
So the Green Party has outed itself as a Clinton Mafia shill.
Another good unintended consequence of Trump.
And Nevada.
And Virginia.
And California.
Across those three states alone, as we have been reporting, just 50,000 votes flipped from Trump to Clinton --- out of more than 13 million ballots cast in those states, where a number of anomalous results have been found --- could change who becomes the next President of the United States.
YOU Slimey libs will rue the day IF you steal this election! Mark My Words!
Let them have their recount. Who cares? Fools and their money.
“Across those three states alone, as we have been reporting, just 50,000 votes flipped from Trump to Clinton -— out of more than 13 million ballots cast in those states, where a number of anomalous results have been found -— could change who becomes the next President of the United States.”
Where is she getting the 50K number from? They need more than that.
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