Posted on 11/28/2016 10:31:56 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Wisconsin election officials pledged Monday they would oversee a fast and fair recount of the presidential vote there, as they race to beat a federal deadline for getting it done, but they declined a request to conduct the new tally by hand.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission signed off on a breakneck pace that would have local officials coordinating the recount with them this week and starting the actual recount near the end of the week. State officials must have their new tally completed by December 13, according to federal law.
Citing those speed concerns, the panel shot down a request from former Green Party candidate Jill Stein that the ballots be counted by hand.
"If nothing else, this is going to give us a very good audit, it's going to re-assure Wisconsin voters that we have a fair system, that we're not counting illegal votes," said Elections Commission chairman Mark Thomsen.
He strongly defended the vote count.
"To say we didn't count them correctly the first time... that somehow illegal votes were counted... is really inappropriate," Thomsen said. "I don't think we'll find in this that our fellow citizens counted these votes (in)accurately -- going to reassure -- not counting illegal votes ... We're not counting dead people's votes."
Wisconsin elections administrator Mike Haas said that if the recount battle moves to the courts, after the commission announces the new tally, it will be out of the commission's hands. But he cast doubt on it ever reaching the level of the 2000 recount.
"This is certainly not Bush v. Gore," Haas said. "The likelihood of an appeal is certainly different from the context of that case."
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It’s not the Green Party for nothing.
That gets him to 270 regardless of MI and PA.
Its funny how the MSM avoids pointing you that if Jill voters had voted for Hillary, she probably would have won.
Good news from all three “Stein/Clinton/Soros States” today ;-)
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