Posted on 12/05/2016 5:06:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
The great Philadelphia recount has ended, and Hillary Clinton got five more votes than she had in her previous total.
Donald Trump’s number stayed the same, as did the totals for Independent candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein after the City Commissioners Office recounted votes in 75 of Philadelphia’s more than 1600 voting divisions. The recount had been launched by 250-plus Philadelphia residents answering the call of Stein, who asked for three petitioners in each of Pennsylvania’s voting district to file recounts to assist in her attempts to get a statewide recount through a Commonwealth Court and then Federal Court lawsuit.
Stein’s camp had planned on using the district-level recounts as possible evidence for hacking or fraud. The recount turned up no instances of fraud or hacking here, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said, emphasizing the difficulty of hacking voting machines that aren’t connected to the internet.
“We have very primitive voting machines here,” he said. “Our voting system is only vulnerable to individual cases of voting fraud, as we’ve seen. Whenever it does occur it would be someone going in and voting for somebody else or an election board manually adding votes, which is an entirely different thing than hacking.”
The five extra votes for Clinton, he said, came from paper provisional or absentee ballots that were undetected by the optical scanner that counted votes in the days following the election. Schmidt said this can happen when people don’t mark their choices clearly on paper ballots or, ridiculous as it sounds, use a green highlighter instead of a pen or pencil.
Yes they only counted 72 of 1500 precincts but ALL of them were in Philly and Philly is where 95% of Dem votes come from. That is why they chose it for the recount they could get.
The rest of PA is Republican by quite a bit.If all they picked up were 5 votes in Philly they will be lucky to get even that many in the rest of the State.
They need 49,000 to overcome the lead of Trump.
And they don't have the time to go out and demonstrate a riot for the same reason.
Hillary Clinton Loses 18,422 Votes in Day 3 of Wisconsin Recount
We could always extradite Soros to Russis as an opening in Trump’s new era of cooperation with them.
BTTT
LOL!(Hey, maybe you’re onto something . . .)
I'm kind of a history buff, but I tend to have more interest in military history and the history of warfare. I guess I should rephrase my earlier question: who runs the website BillyPenn?
Guess I should have read the “about” on the site:
“Billy Penn is a mobile-first platform designed to connect citizens to relevant news and information about Philadelphia, and to drive civic engagement via affinity groups and events. The project — from veterans of newsrooms at the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Digital First Media, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Patriot-News, Tribune Co. and WHYY’s Newsworks — launched in October 2014.”
I think many newspapers lost the interest of their readers because of the nature of their content.
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