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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IF they even get that far. Each candidate can object to the recount and the boards of canvassers can make determinations of fact; it is an undisputed fact that there is no possible way for Jill Stein to gain over 1,000,000 votes to become the winner of the election, and that this recount is entirely meaningless.
Should a board (or boards) fail to agree on this minor piece of truth, I suspect that it will go to the courts.
From the article....”Excess money raised for the recount will go to Green Party campaign schools next year “to groom local candidates,” Martin said.”
I thought she wanted a beach house like Bernie but perhaps this would give her more power...
If they did, what do you expect from the Urinal Sentinel? Only good for starting fires, wrapping fish and lining bird cages.
Completely irrelevant. Hilary has ALREADY conceded defeat to Trump. It is over. If she wanted a recount, she had to ask for one prior to conceding.
It is too late to recount other than for academic purposes. Sorry commie libs. Too late. You lost. Hilary conceded.
"If the recount isn't complete by then, electors from Wisconsin could meet anyway and try to have their results sent to Congress by the time it counts the votes on Jan. 6, Foley said. Congress has wide latitude to decide how to count the states' electoral votes."
A concession speech is not any kind of legal or official action. It’s merely a formality. Plenty of sore losers have never made concession speeches. And if you will recall, in November - December 2000, Gore first conceded, then un-conceded, then eventually re-conceded.
thanks for that info
You know, she might not be doing it to help Hillary. Maybe the reason the democrats didn’t do this recount crap first is because.....the knew a recount would uncover millions of voter fraud cases and wikileaks would unleash a billion emails pointing to the White House.....
shooot, i say go ahead and recount.....it will help show the world and the young people of America how hopelessly corrupt the Regressive Alt-Left Democratic Party is.
Not sure. I was assuming the state handled it like many other states do - where it flips to the state legislature. But perhaps WI has different provisions. We’ll soon learn, I imagine.
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