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Recount 2016: Jill Stein Cannot File Direct Request For Recount In Pa, Must Take it to Court
The Inquisitor ^ | 2 hours ago | Tara West

Posted on 11/26/2016 7:07:27 PM PST by drewh

Jill Stein posted to her Jill2016 website that she had raised enough money to “file” for a recount in Pennsylvania. However, the Green Party candidate left out some key details about the filing of recounts in Pennsylvania that many of her supporters likely would have wanted to know before donating. For example, candidates cannot file a direct request for a recount in the state and instead must appeal the election in court.

View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow The Trump Train @The_Trump_Train Donald Trump statement on Jill Stein's recount efforts: 3:25 PM - 26 Nov 2016 1,074 1,074 Retweets 1,806 1,806 likes According to the Recount 2016 initiative and donation page posted by failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, the Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign launched an effort to ensure the “integrity of our elections.” Stein noted that she was hoping to raise funds via grassroots efforts to “demand” that recounts take place in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. She claimed “data” has suggested a need for recounting “machine-counted” votes in these particular states, which also happen to be states that Trump unexpectedly beat Clinton.

Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems 6:31 PM - 26 Nov 2016 14,904 14,904 Retweets 42,094 42,094 likes Stein’s fundraising efforts immediately sparked the interest of Clinton supporters as it played on the hope that Hillary still had a chance at the presidency. Should all three states be overturned in a recount, Clinton would have enough electorates to win the election. However, Stein did not make the recount process clear for her donors. Her outline makes it sound as though a candidate can simply file for a recount if they raise enough funds for the filing fee.

While the filing fee and request is all that is needed in Wisconsin, her second state “funded” is much more complicated. Pennsylvania does not allow candidates to file a direct request for a recount, according to the Pennsylvania Election Code. Instead, the filing fee is simply the amount needed to appeal the results.

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SHARE 99 TWEET “While candidates cannot file a direct request for a recount, they may appeal the order or decision of any county board regarding the computation or canvassing of the returns of any primary or election, or regarding any recount or recanvass thereof. During the appeal process, the court may determine that a recount is necessary.” Per Pennsylvania regulations, there is only one way remaining for Jill Stein to get a recount in Pennsylvania and it is a complicated process. BillyPenn reports that Stein would have to file for a court appeal and present a “prima facie case” showing that voter fraud took place. While prima facie has a lower burden of proof threshold than “beyond reasonable doubt,” it is still significant. Stein would have to prove in court that fraud was “probable.” This is going to be very difficult given that even the computer specialists recommending the recount say there is no proof of hacking or fraud.

View image on TwitterView image on Twitter Follow Leah the Boss @LeahRBoss I'm just gonna leave this right here. 4:24 PM - 26 Nov 2016 383 383 Retweets 479 479 likes In fact, the Medium reports that Clinton’s own legal team headed by Marc Elias has noted that Clinton’s team “had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.” The Obama administration echoed that by stating that the government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber-activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on election day. According to Newsmax, Obama is standing behind the results which indicate that Trump won the election, saying the election was “free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective.”

Elias also noted that in even the closest margin state, Michigan, Trump’s win “well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount.” Therefore, Elias says that is why Clinton herself did not pursue a recount effort. However, since Stein has funded and initiated the effort, Elias says that Clinton will participate to ensure fairness.

Stein has maintained that the effort is not designed to overturn the election results, but rather to ensure transparency in the voting process. Stein has even criticized Clinton for joining her efforts so late in the game, calling her “on-again, off-again about democracy.”

Follow Dr. Jill Stein ✔ @DrJillStein Why would Hillary Clinton—who conceded the election to Donald Trump—want #Recount2016? You cannot be on-again, off-again about democracy. 3:41 PM - 26 Nov 2016 1,411 1,411 Retweets 2,345 2,345 likes Follow Dr. Jill Stein ✔ @DrJillStein Why would Hillary Clinton—who holds "public" and "private" positions—want to engage in something as transparent as #Recount2016? 4:07 PM - 26 Nov 2016 594 594 Retweets 1,064 1,064 likes The deadline to file an appeal in court for Pennsylvania is on Monday, November 28. Stein has said she is “filing” but has given no further details about the efforts. Should she file, the next step would be to prove her “prima facie” case in court.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016parecount; 2016recount; election; lawsuit; pa2016; pennsylvania; recount; stein; steinrecount
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To: drewh
She would have to disqualify all three states and flip seventeen electors. Please be serious.
41 posted on 11/26/2016 7:40:20 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: drewh

They are doing this to taint Trump’s presidency that he is not “legitimate” and nobody should listen to him

That is all this is about

They want to raise doubt

That is what they tried to do to GWB in 2000


42 posted on 11/26/2016 7:40:31 PM PST by arl295
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To: drewh

no recount in pa.
here are some of the statutes
http://ceimn.org/ceimn-state-recount-laws-searchable-database/states/Pennsylvania


43 posted on 11/26/2016 7:40:34 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: Celerity

They would still be ruling on this case, regardless of the outcome of the referendum.


44 posted on 11/26/2016 7:41:25 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: drewh

All states have to certify the results to Congress by December 13th.....

All the king’s horses
and all the king’s men
ain’t gonna get it
together by then


45 posted on 11/26/2016 7:41:51 PM PST by gandalftb (Go Seahawks!)
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To: 353FMG

Yeah but they are not loyal to her.


46 posted on 11/26/2016 7:42:51 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: drewh

The Jill-Stein Circle Jerk will go down.


47 posted on 11/26/2016 7:42:58 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: arl295

“They are doing this to taint Trump’s presidency that he is not “legitimate”

I know, I know.....somebody has found proof that Mr. Trump was born in Scotland.....


48 posted on 11/26/2016 7:43:26 PM PST by gandalftb (Go Seahawks!)
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To: drewh

Okay so in PA what court would hear this case? It can’t be just any judge from any dinky family court in Pittsburg. If so, there would be an appeal and to what court then? Anybody know which court this would start in?


49 posted on 11/26/2016 7:43:37 PM PST by katielou828
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To: drewh

Please stop posting pictures of her. The election is over, stop torturing us.


50 posted on 11/26/2016 7:43:38 PM PST by SoCalConservative
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To: drewh

Bind their hands, Lord. We humbly pray.


51 posted on 11/26/2016 7:46:18 PM PST by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: drewh

Looks like foreign money is paying for the recount. Is that legal? https://twitter.com/Brian_Was_Here_


52 posted on 11/26/2016 7:46:28 PM PST by Ms Mable
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To: CatOwner

10 days?! That sucks. You should live in PA. I went to the gun shop, and walked out with my gun within 1 hour.


53 posted on 11/26/2016 7:48:48 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (At least Richard Nixon had the decency to resign when caught in wrong doing.)
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To: wiseprince

The PA governor is an Obama cheerleader.


54 posted on 11/26/2016 7:50:16 PM PST by Ciexyz (After eight years of Obama, I can't afford to buy nothin'.)
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To: Ciexyz
Gee, I hate to throw good money after bad.

But I would hate to see this ever end.

55 posted on 11/26/2016 7:50:38 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Coordination.


56 posted on 11/26/2016 7:51:03 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

PA is a beautiful state.


57 posted on 11/26/2016 7:51:52 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: CatOwner

Are you in CA?

Yes>>> i would recommend a trip to a friendly state. buy a $200 sks. a bunch of ten round stripper clips. and 1000 round case of wolf 7.62 X 39 122 gr hardball non corrosive.


58 posted on 11/26/2016 7:53:19 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: drewh

Cloward-Piven tactics.

This entire recount scam is an effort by the Hillary people to overload the system - straight out of the Cloward-Piven playbook.

They are betting that the states do not have enough time to complete a hand count by Dec. 13 which is the date the states have to certify their election results.

That is why they waited for almost 3 weeks to make their move.


59 posted on 11/26/2016 7:53:59 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, after today, all talk of not prosecuting her must stop. The investigations must proceed unabated.


60 posted on 11/26/2016 7:54:10 PM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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