Posted on 11/25/2016 3:38:17 PM PST by randita
Wisconsin will begin a historic presidential recount next week and the state could risk losing its ability to have its 10 electoral votes counted if it doesn't meet key deadlines next month.
Hitting a Dec. 13 deadline could be particularly tricky if Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is able to force the recount to be conducted by hand, Wisconsin's top election official said.
Stein and independent presidential candidate Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente separately filed recount requests late Friday, the last day they were able to do so. Stein received about 30,000 votes and De La Fuente about 1,500 out of 3 million cast.
One or both of them will have to pay for the recount because they lost by more than 0.25%. The cost could top $1 million.
Stein is also planning to ask for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which have deadlines next week. She has raised $5 million for the recounts in recent days — more than she raised during her campaign leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
Wisconsin's recount will likely begin late next week, once the state has tallied a cost estimate and received payment from Stein's campaign, said Michael Haas, administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Recounts will be done by county boards of canvassers, which will likely have to work nights and weekends, Haas said.
The push for a recount came as liberals raised fears about hacked voting machines. Election officials and experts say they are unaware of any problems with Wisconsin's vote tally.
Republican Donald Trump edged out Democrat Hillary Clinton by some 27,000 votes in Wisconsin, becoming the first GOP presidential candidate to win the state since 1984.
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Dems just going to lose again. Special stupid at work.
This is a total waste of time. Why does Stein matter to call for a recount?
Who gets to bank the cash from this fund raising scam?
Stein has no chance of prevailing.
Her request should be denied.
Has Trump commented on any of these shenanigans?
They spelled Hysteric wrong
Haven’t seen anything yet? Just checked his Twitter.
Exactly the question we all should ask. Why would a candidate who got a tiny percentage of the vote ask for a recount? Her also ran status cannot change even if she gains some votes in the recount. So it begs questions as to why she is doing this.
Stein had to let them in to pass the “Prove you're not a robot" tests.So Soros , Stein, Hillary in on this "recount" in WI , PA ,MI, a scheme to flip all 3.
Don't know all the details just a tiny bit. soros knows it all and this was plan 3 after his paid riots etc. Soros is funding most of this recount in WI
Maybe Trump ought to ask for hand recounts in California and New York out or spite.
The goal is not to win, it’s just to cast doubt on the election process to delegitimize Trump’s win. Keeps the rabbles roused.
Did I read correctly? If not finished on time the 10 EVs are just out? Is that the play? Not flip the state but take the 10 out of the total? Are they trying to send it to the HOR? This is ridiculous.
LoL :-)
They HAVE to, by law, report their results on Dec. 13. If the recount isn’t finished by then, the state legislature will make the decision.
which would drop Trump to 260.
Spot on .That’s Soros’s plan
See Post. 15.
If the SCOTUS had not intervened in 2000, the FL Legislature was prepared to step in.
I wonder why they waited so long for this absurd request. Is this just to keep the welfare class riled up as their protests are forgotten in using our tax dollars to eat turkey and shop for junk, or did it take that long to “fix” the machines so the recount would show the desired result? I will not trust a recount that shows any Trump states flipping at this point.
Due to leftist corruption, the soap box and the jury box failed catastrophically in our efforts to stop Barack Hussein and then Hillary. Do they really want to cheat real Americans out of the ballot box too?
Oh so this is already a “historical recount”?
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