Trump Strikes Back: President-Elect's Legal Team Challenges Stein's Recount In Michigan

Townhall ^ | December 1, 2016 | Matt Vespa

[Fennie]

President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers have filed an objection against Green Party candidate Jill Stein's recount in Michigan, calling the request lawless and insulting.

President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers have filed an objection to the recount in Michigan, delaying and potentially blocking a review that was slated to begin Friday.

[USCG SimTech]

If the re-count has officially started because of the Stein maneuver, then the count gets delayed past when the count can be completed, the electors cannot vote when the electoral college meets. This disenfranchises every, single voter in the entire state.

Trump will be blamed for it because of his “obstructionist move to ensure having a fair vote. Now everyone lost their vote. Thanks Trump!”

[Paladin2]

‘Rats just want to fill in ballots that currently have no choice for POTUS.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

You seem to off your meds....

[Dilbert San Diego]

I have questioned why:

1. These recount requests were not being done right after election day. If it was so clear to Jill Stein and her henchmen that they had problems with results, why the need to wait so long??

2. What specific allegations about election procedures are they making here? The margins of victory in each state are exponentially higher than the maximum margin ever overcome by any recount in history. Do they really think the outcome can change?

3. Why is Jill Stein, who got about 1% of the vote, allowed to request a recount which can never result in her winning g the election??

4. As far as election integrity and all that, can’t we study that subject without doing a pointless recount??

[UCANSEE2]

If the re-count is officially stopped because of the Trump maneuver, then everyone’s vote counts.

[Alberta's Child]

Do you even know what the hell you are talking about?

It's been more than 200 years since a state's electoral votes were not counted in a presidential election (New York didn't get theirs certified in time in 1789). The State of Michigan will certify its votes based on the results it has in hand at the time it's required to do it.

If it was that easy to cancel a state's electoral votes, it would have been done with boring regularity since the country was founded.

[Luke21]

Been watching CNN again?

[stonehouse01]

“...electors cannot vote...”

Whaat? Really? I highly doubt this!

[tuffydoodle]

People still haven’t learned not to mess with Trump. He’s not an easy target, if you slap him in the face, he’ll drop a nuclear bomb on you. Learn it...know it...live it.

[apillar]

Nobody will be disenfranchised. If push comes to shove and the legal wrangling is still going on when the electoral college deadline rolls around, a federal judge will quickly put a stop to the recount using Bush v. Gore 2000 as the binding legal precedent and the original count will stand.

[Paladin2]

We should square the voter rolls in Rat Urban Utopias.

[wny]

why bother?

[silverleaf]

Do you think the 4d chess master knows not what he is doing or is doing what he does not think needs to be done?

[Ray76]

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/Objection_to_Recount_Petition_544089_7.pdf

[pepsionice]

In effect, it is opening up a Pandora’s Box. If you can stumble up Michigan’s vote in the Electoral College....you can do it in any state, at any time. From that moment on....your vote does not matter or count. Ownership of the House is then the only method, and you have to work to ensure 26 Republican-controlled states exist. It would change the entire scope of primaries and donor-financing...you’d go and make every single legislative district a top priority. And you’d go to work on district redrawing....to ensure absolute ownership (hint: 2020 Census).

I would almost call it the Pandora of all Pandora’s Boxes.

[Ann Archy]

START PRAYING!!! Electors are going ROGUE!! This is SCARY!!!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

At less-than 10% of the overall vote, can Stein prove harm?

[OttawaFreeper]

Agreed. You are seeing trolls like that person carry on with the Hillary trying to litigate her way into the White House narrative as to upset people here.

[Pollster1]

I'd like to see President Trump make secure voting a priority. Listen to the "black vote suppression" complaints and the vote fraud concerns. Address both at the same time:

1. Require voter ID equivalent to that demanded by TSA as part of state/local voting in all elections that include a federal office.

2. Require that states provide a non-driver ID for free and take an ID van (like the old "bookmobile") around to the most rural, obscure corners of each state to make sure that all potential legal voters have an opportunity to obtain ID at no cost. They might then mail the ID to the voter, as my motor vehicle department did for my new "secure" driver's license, but they should come to all communities to eliminate the standard liberal whine that poor blacks cannot find an ID. Take appropriate measures to ensure that people cannot obtain these secure IDs under multiple names.

3. Require that all state/local voting in elections that include a federal office have an auditable record, one that includes individual paper ballots for each voter.

4. Require that states corrupt enough to permit illegals and other non-citizens to vote have a means to check whether those people voted illegally for federal office or only for state offices. Require that this means be accessible to all candidates and FOIA checks (simple spreadsheet: citizenship, whether voted for President/House/Senate).

The left has admitted what we worried about all along - that our election process is not secure. We need to make it secure and do so in a manner that does not even appear to discriminate against citizens who are eligible to vote. Trump should treat the Jill Stein challenge as an opportunity!