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Michigan to Move Ahead with Presidential Recount
CnN Politics.com ^ | December 5, 3016 | Max Blau & Joe Sutton

Posted on 12/05/2016 5:36:02 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Michigan will become the second state to conduct a recount of ballot casts during the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith early Monday morning issued an order for Michigan election officials to begin counting ballots starting at noon. The ruling follows a request from Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein after a razor-thin margin made the state the last to be called in the November election. President-elect Donald Trump ended up winning Michigan's 16 electoral votes by just 0.2 percentage points, or just under 10,000 votes out of over 5.5 million cast.

"It is inexcusable for Stein to put Michigan voters at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process," Schuette said in a statement. It is inexcusable for Stein to put MI votes at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Elec College.

— A.G. Bill Schuette (@SchuetteOnDuty) December 2, 2016 Stein has spearheaded a recount effort in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- three battleground states where Donald Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton. Trump supporters in Wisconsin have unsuccessfully tried to stop the recount in progress there. Stein's campaign, who withdrew a recount request in a Pennsylvania state court, this weekend said she would instead file the lawsuit seeking a statewide recount in federal court Monday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: clinton; election2016; electionfraud; jillstein; michigan; recount; soros
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Judge Orders Michigan Recount to Begin at Noon Monday 58 comments

(Vanity) Michigan recount ordered by federal judge to start tomorrow!! 191 comments

21 posted on 12/05/2016 5:58:34 AM PST by deport
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To: ScottinVA

“0.2 percentage points, or just under 10,000 votes out of over 5.5 million cast”

On top of that 2,279.543 + 2,268,839 votes doesn’t add up to over 5.5 million


22 posted on 12/05/2016 5:59:59 AM PST by RonnG
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Because he got his job because he was blackmailable
Now the Soros Godfather has requested this favor...


23 posted on 12/05/2016 6:06:34 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: roostercogburn
reports are there are 75k paper ballots with no readable by machine vote for president

Let me guess.. they just happen to be in Detroit.

24 posted on 12/05/2016 6:07:10 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: roostercogburn

The technical term is “ undervotes”
The voter intention was “ none of the above”


25 posted on 12/05/2016 6:07:57 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Emergency Order to all Trump voters: Load up, prepare for defcon 1.


26 posted on 12/05/2016 6:08:30 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; nhwingut

I don’t think nhwingut meant it that way. We know democrats are whacked out. The republican judges will see the constitutional issues and come down on the side of fairness, sanity and right. The dems just can’t do that.


27 posted on 12/05/2016 6:09:00 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the brave)
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To: nhwingut
Has there been an appeal and stay request to the Circuit Court?
28 posted on 12/05/2016 6:14:07 AM PST by cowboyusa
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To: roostercogburn

Actually, those 75,000 showed no selection for president. Not unusual this year.


29 posted on 12/05/2016 6:15:59 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: ScottinVA

Allegedly 25k higher than 2012.
I understand those who say don’t worry. I try not to.
But I can see 10k idiot witch voters in Detroit and other urban areas of the state filling out ballots for her improperly.
I do not want those votes gone through in a hand recount.


30 posted on 12/05/2016 6:22:42 AM PST by roostercogburn
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To: roostercogburn

Well it’s been 9 hours since the ruling... anyone hearing any rumblings from Michigan GOP officials?? Are they going to appeal this decision to the 6th circuit?


31 posted on 12/05/2016 6:26:51 AM PST by roostercogburn
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Recount Colorado and Nevada....or, at least investigate the massive voter fraud.

I really hope Trump puts the FBI and justice department onto the case, an congress passes a national voter reform act requiring voter id and purging/reregistering of voters using reliable proof of citizenship.


32 posted on 12/05/2016 6:28:03 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: ScottinVA
Actually, those 75,000 showed no selection for president. Not unusual this year.

I sure hope those ballots are secure so the Rats can't fill in the Hillary box. If examination of those ballots shows so much as a pencil smudge in her box, they will call it "voter intent" to vote for her. Here in NM I personally know several people so disgusted with both selections that they left it blank or voted for Johnson.

33 posted on 12/05/2016 6:28:30 AM PST by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: RonnG

Magic votes being found/manufactured by the leftist.


34 posted on 12/05/2016 6:30:02 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Some estimates are that this is going to cost MI taxpayers $12 million.

There has already been one recount which was mandated because of Trump’s narrow victory margin.


35 posted on 12/05/2016 6:32:03 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Next highest court is 6th US Federal Court.


36 posted on 12/05/2016 6:32:27 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
There is no Federal authority over the appointment of Electors for President and Vice President by the State Legislatures. Period.

This is the rotten fruit of the USSC agreeing to hear a nonjusticeable political question in the Bush v. Gore matter.

We will never have a decisive election again if this is allowed to continue. The appointment of Michigan's electors is a plenary power of the State Legislature.

It is a serious error to fight this in a Federal Court. That Court should be IGNORED, because it is attempting to interfere in a process outside of its competence and authority.

37 posted on 12/05/2016 6:36:55 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: CedarDave
I sure hope those ballots are secure so the Rats can't fill in the Hillary box.

I'd have a hard time believing Trump's people aren't on this like Rosie O'Donnell on a toilet seat. They'll have watchers at every point.

38 posted on 12/05/2016 6:37:13 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: ScottinVA

This ConeHead-looking fed judge is merely yet another of the compromised leftists infecting our society.


39 posted on 12/05/2016 6:42:30 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

They should take the money from the US Fed judges’ pension fund.


40 posted on 12/05/2016 6:43:20 AM PST by HarleyD
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