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Historic recount will have to move quickly (WI)
Journal-Sentinel ^ | 11/25/16 | Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016recount; 2016swingstates; election; greenparty; greenparty4clinton; jillstein; recount; shenanigans; stein; stein4clinton; steinrecount; thirdparty; wi2016; wirecount; wisconsin
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To: Non-Compliant_Deplorable

Good Thank you !


121 posted on 11/25/2016 5:27:08 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: BP2
<<27,000 votes are A LOT of votes to just “find.” Not gonna happen.>> Actually, you have to think about it quite differently. Assume they found a staggering 100,000 votes. Assume Clinton received 47% of the vote, Mr. Trump 46%, weird guy 6% and Stein 1%. Even with 100,000 "found" votes, it would only close the gap by 1,000 votes. The only reason for them to be asking for a recount is to hope that the election commissions can't complete the recount on time, and thus throw the EC vote to either the Courts or the State Legislature, hoping for a reversal from the current. In football, it's call this a "Hail Mary" In politics, it's called desperation (and I'm loving it since for once, it's happening to the other side)
122 posted on 11/25/2016 5:28:01 PM PST by MrZippy2k (Ready for a HUGE change)
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To: DugwayDuke

Excellent point.


123 posted on 11/25/2016 5:30:33 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Bernard
The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President.

Article 2, Section 1

124 posted on 11/25/2016 5:32:22 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: randita

And why was the SoS - Katherine Harris, promptly kicked to the curb by the brothers Bush after she dutifully certified the election?


125 posted on 11/25/2016 5:37:32 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Starboard

Just drone him.


126 posted on 11/25/2016 5:38:02 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: CapnJack

“do the recount and then delay it so it is not complete and then have the state’s Electoral votes not be counted.’

That would seriously backfire on the Democrats. To disenfranchise a whole state is serious business. Now I wonder if Stein was a Hillary plant, in an attempt to take votes away from Trump, and it did not work.


127 posted on 11/25/2016 5:40:44 PM PST by kaila
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To: CapnJack
No one FR should make light of this threat to our Free Election process. There is a chance Trump can loose, and the Libs will make sure once they can get the recount process started, they will get the result they want.

You have a mistaken understanding of the process.

128 posted on 11/25/2016 5:41:37 PM PST by okie01 ( The MainStream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: meyer

Jill want’s her house by the lake, like the one Bernie got.


129 posted on 11/25/2016 5:42:38 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: MaxistheBest

yes. Granny is still plotting and scheming behind the scenes,

“I ain’t no ways tired!”


130 posted on 11/25/2016 5:47:02 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Dawn53Fl

Then we need to bribe Gary Johnson to recount the Cali. vote. and make them subtract all of the aliens. Election 2016 would make 2000 look like a quickie!


131 posted on 11/25/2016 5:50:47 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: fhayek
it is inconceivable that three states, all with differentials in the tens of thousands will be flipped for Hillary.

Well if that happens I hope they are ready for we the people to not accept the results. I would hope even people that are still sound asleep in this country would be waking up.

What they are doing makes no sense to me, so I am wondering what they have up their sleeve.

132 posted on 11/25/2016 5:52:05 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: randita
Recount the votes.

The outcome will be that Trump WON by even WIDER margins than previously reported.

Take the money from Stein ( Soros funded ) and close the books.

133 posted on 11/25/2016 5:53:55 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: DugwayDuke

Plus the millions of folks in those three states are ticked that they are being disenfranchised from the election process by hillary stein.


134 posted on 11/25/2016 5:54:42 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Tammy8
What they are doing makes no sense to me, so I am wondering what they have up their sleeve.

That's THE question, IMO.

Even if they manage to steal three states and drop Trump to 260, he still wins in the House of Representatives.

135 posted on 11/25/2016 5:58:11 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: MrZippy2k
In politics, it's called desperation (and I'm loving it since for once, it's happening to the other side)

Rs could never do something like this, the media would turn them into a laughing stock at the mere suggestion of anything close to this. Just imagine if this was reversed.

136 posted on 11/25/2016 6:01:18 PM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Mjreagan

I think it’s exactly what they want to do.


137 posted on 11/25/2016 6:04:39 PM PST by majormaturity
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To: Non-Compliant_Deplorable
We not Stupid

Soros and Clinton are paying for this scam

138 posted on 11/25/2016 6:23:50 PM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: georgiarat

NH has a republican legislature, we should recount very very slowly.


139 posted on 11/25/2016 6:39:32 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: randita

“...and the state could risk losing its ability to have its 10 electoral votes counted if it doesn’t meet key deadlines next month.”

Veiled “threat” perhaps?

I trust no one on either side of the political aisle.


140 posted on 11/25/2016 6:43:39 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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