Posted on 12/03/2016 5:01:14 PM PST by Kaslin
Looks like Jill Stein has run out of cash. CBS’ Pittsburgh affiliate reports that the Green Party can’t raise the $1 million bond for the Pennsylvania recount, and has withdrawn their demand. And with that, the election is well and truly over:
The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.
The Green Party’s filing came Saturday, saying it couldn’t afford the $1 million bond the court had set. A Commonwealth Court hearing had been scheduled in the case for Monday, and the $1 million bond was due later that day.
Pennsylvania was by far the toughest state for the recall, with a final gap of around 56,000 votes. There was no chance that a recount would even come within an order of magnitude of that gap, but the Stein campaign had insisted that the Keystone State still needed to do a hand recount of every ballot.
That ends the campaign. Without taking Pennsylvania off the Electoral College table, Trump can’t lose. Even if Stein manages to force the electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to miss the safe-harbor deadline and the Electoral College on December 19th by tying up both states in useless recounting, Trump still has 280 electors and a clear victory.
Even with that, though, Wisconsin looks like it’s well on its way to finishing its recount on time. Its Day 3 results show that almost a third of Wisconsin precincts have completed their recounts, accounting for over 705,000 of the 2.975 million ballots cast in the presidential race. The net change has been to find 349 additional votes. Trump has gained 138 votes and Hillary Clinton 126, which means that Trump has extended his lead by 12 points. That’s, er, not exactly what Stein promised donors who coughed up millions for this stupid and futile gesture.
Update: The court in Pennsylvania has put an exclamation point on the subject of recounts:
AND NOW, this 3rd day of December, 2016, Petitioners having filed a Praecipe to Discontinue and Withdraw the above-captioned matter, the hearing scheduled for Monday, December 5, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. is CANCELLED, and the Chief Clerk is directed to mark this matter CLOSED.
That’ll do it.
now all the states need to update their election laws.
It has to be at the Fed level. They should all be equal for a FEDERAL election. They can play any game they want locally.
Well GOOD! Maybe now all this foolishness will end. Someone cue the graphic about the five stages of grief and insert something for the “4th stage.”
They done run out of other people’s money.
mic drop...
If a not so rich country like India has issued almost 800 Million photo ID voter cards, but the country with largest GDP on earth will not do it makes no logical sense.
no.
states control their own election laws. states control their electoral college votes. prevents federalism.
Exactly
We don’t need federal laws here
Federalism actually means the opposite of what you stated (BTW just pointing that out)....
No, Federalism IS shared power between the states and the federal governments.
Elections for federal office should all meet the same standard requirements no matter what state the election is held in. Statewide offices can use a different or the same standards.
Voter ID
No same day registration
Proof of Citizenship
Early Voting limited to shorter time frames.
Does this issue prove or disprove that Soros was putting up money to crap in the punchbowl?
Stein is up to something in Florida...
EXCERPT:
In Florida, the infamous DS-200 optical scan machine is in use in many parts of the state. Affidavits from voters illegally turned away from the polls are being gathered. And county election officials are reporting that 25,000 absentee ballots were requested but never sent out in Broward County alone.
Unfortunately, Florida law has been changed to make it all but impossible to have a recount. The only avenue for inspecting the ballots is to file a lawsuit contesting the election results, and that must be done by Friday, Dec 2nd.
https://protectourelections.nationbuilder.com/florida_recount
For state and local elections...fine but it sure doesn't seem like our forefathers intended chaos.
Quote:
“In fact her next step is to fight for precinct by precinct recounts in Pennsylvania until the vote totals have been sufficiently corrected and revised to drop Donald Trump’s lead in the state from the current 0.8% mark to the 0.5% mark, which in turn would trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania state law. So how many mainstream major media outlets are correctly reporting that the PA recount effort is now continuing with a new strategy? There don’t appear to be any.”
SorozNazi is not broke. It looks like old commie Jill just decided to keep some of his filthy lucre for herself
Is all. she apparently figured out how to fleece the Satanic old basturd. Ha ha!
Just read the Palmer Report. It’s obviously a lefty moonbat blog. See, there really is fake news.
states are sovereign. fedgov exists b/c states created it.
if fedgov goes, states will till exist.
states determine their election laws.
the founders set it up this way.
i am saying its time to update state laws to prevent this abuse from happening again. this is the proper level where the changes need to be made.
we have a large majority of states under republican control, we better do it asap.
#9 ___ great graphic !!
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