Wisconsin Denies Request For Recount By Hand As Stein Threatens To Sue

Zero Hedge ^ | 11/28/2016

[SeekAndFind]

Finally, a voice of reason emerges in Wisconsin to combat Jill Stein's useless recount crusade.  According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairman, Mark Thomsen, who happens to be Democrat, announced earlier that the committee would follow through with Stein's recount request but denied a request that the recount be conducted by hand.  Thomsen cited a 2011 recount that changed the overall vote margin by 300 votes as evidence that the current recount would overturn Trump's 22,177 vote lead in the state.

Citing the results of a 2011 statewide recount that changed only 300 votes, Elections Commission chairman Mark Thomsen, a Democrat, said this presidential recount is very unlikely to change Republican Donald Trump's win in the state.

 

"It may not be 22,177," said Thomsen, referring to Trump's win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the vote count. "But I don’t doubt that the president-elect is going to win that."

 

Thomsen dismissed Stein's claims of problems with the vote as unfounded and misleading. But he directed his toughest criticism to Trump's unsupported allegations that millions of people voted illegally nationwide, calling them "an insult to the people that run our elections."

Under the plan adopted Monday, the recount would begin Thursday and could cost $1 million.  Of course, we assume that Stein didn't factor in the incremental costs associated with suing states that call her out for her ridiculous recount efforts.  As such, she may need to raise some more money just as the flow of funds seem to have slowed to a trickle...we suspect Hillary supporters have finally caught on to the scam.

 

Here is the official timeline for the recount per the Wisconsin Election Commission:

Monday, cost estimates and vote tabulation method will be provided by county clerks to the commission by noon. Commission officials will provide estimated statewide costs to the campaigns of both Stein and De La Fuente by the end of the day.

 

Tuesday, the Stein, De La Fuente or both must pay for the recount. Once full payment is received, the commission will issue a recount order to all presidential candidates.

 

Wednesday, commission staff will hold a teleconference in the morning for all county clerks and canvass members to outline the process and rules of a recount. Since a 24-hour public meeting notice is required for the recount, each county must post its notice by Wednesday.

 

Thursday, recount begins in every Wisconsin county.

 

Dec. 12, all county canvass boards must be completed by 8 p.m.

 

Dec. 13, Elections Commission staff will prepare the official recount canvass certification by 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, this may all be a "best case scenario" for Stein who would get to pocket the $6.3mm raised so far if recount efforts are denied and she decides to walk away.

[bobsunshine]

Per MI Recount rules, deadline to file for recount is 3 days, so Thursday.

[ColdOne]

What is going on?

[reformedliberal]

Wisconsin has very firm conservative majority Supreme Court
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They made us go thru a recount to get that, too.

[Oatka]

[It’s over. Stein withdrew the recount request in Pennsylvania, and Michigan certified their votes.]
Reminds me of a writhing snake after it’s head has been severed from its body.

I was thinking of the closing scene in the 1955 movie "Richard III" where he is mortally wounded in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He takes the hit and then spends the next five minutes kicking and twitching like a dying mule. At the three-minute mark I was thinking "Fer Chrissakes, Rich, pack it in so we can move on."

Stein is past her three-minute mark.

[ridesthemiles]

Wisconsin doesn’t strike me as a hotbed of illegal voting.

I won’t say there is NONE-—but California is the biggest source of illegal voting, IMO, after having lived there for 40 ++ years. Multiple voting? Yes. College students voting absentee at parents address & in person at school? Yes.

Clark County, Nevada also has a large illegal population & they are voting in the caucuses.

Start the registration process over!!! FREEZE what we have on the rolls now. 3144 counties start a new process with more strict vetting.

Photo Voter ID will be necessary in all 50 states. !!

Dead people cannot vote!!

Illegals cannot ve registered.

COUNTY EMPLOYEES ONLY can do registration-—NOT the creeps strolling the malls with a clipboard & who get paid for every registration. Who is verifying what they turn in???

Early voting has to end.

Absentee voting has to be very restrictive-—vote on Election Day or don’t vote. It isn’t that difficult!!!

I am 77 & have voted for 56 years. I NEVER voted early—nor absentee.

[mrsmith]

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Wisconsin says Stein campaign will have to pay $3.5 million for the statewide recount."

Oh baby! Wisconsin election workers gonna have a big Christmas!

[PghBaldy]

Various counties are waiting for the courts I guess to rule on the Jill Stein issue.

[Secret Agent Man]

trumps win has only seen an increase in faked hate crimes by liberals.

[damper99]

I’d do the recount and give her a bill for mega hours of overtime of the highest paid employees.

[ichabod1]

I do see what you mean. Hillary suggests she’s going to join the recount? A leak comes out from Trump HQ that the Trump administration will urge foreign governments to audit the Clinton Foundation.

[virgil]

Wisconsin says Stein campaign will have to pay $3.5 million for the statewide recount."

I wonder if I can help with some of that. LOL

[ari-freedom]

“A good reminder to any lingering NeverTrumpers that control of the courts is not something to let go of lightly. “

Well, they expect Trump to do a ‘cut and run’ on his conservative supporters and end up picking Souters for Supreme Court. That’s why this Romney speculation needs to end.

[Secret Agent Man]

i have a statistic that i believe is evidence of election fraud and attempting to prevent trump his victory.

jill stein only filed for recounts in states won by trump. that alone is extremely suspicious.

[COUNTrecount]

Financial disclosure
Stein’s financial disclosure, filed in March 2016, indicated that she maintained investments of as much as $8.5 million, including mutual or index funds that included holdings in industries that she had previously criticized, such as energy, financial, pharmaceutical, tobacco, and defense contractors.[62] In response to questions about her finances, Stein said in part: “Sadly, most of these broad investments are as compromised as the American economy—degraded as it is by the fossil fuel, defense and finance industries”,[62] and later characterized the article as a “smear attack” against her.[63]

[boatbums]

Why can Stein just keep the cash left over if there is no recount? Shouldn’t it be refunded??? I hope people are noticing the scam she is running.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Did you see the “fund raising” graphic?

Bev Harris redux!

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I smell a walk away and pocketing the money. It’s a wild goose chase, so why waste the money? There will be a press release saying the denial of a hand count in Wisconsin and the PA SOS Statement that the deadline has passed there makes the recount effort futile. Therefore, they will suspend that effort and KEEP THE MONEY! Bet on it.

[Monkey Face]

Reminds me of a writhing snake after it’s head has been severed from its body.

Or a chicken with its head cut off...:o])

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