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Michigan Preparing For Potential HAND RECOUNT of 4.8M Presidential Votes (facepalm)
Wn.com ^ | 7:10 p.m. EST November 25, 2016 | Kathleen Gray , Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau

Posted on 11/26/2016 5:51:28 PM PST by drewh

The Green Party is crowdfunding $2.5 million to challenge the 2016 election results in three states. Video provided by Newsy Newslook

"What we're doing is standing up for an election system that we can trust. We deserve to have votes that we can believe in,"

(Excerpt) Read more at article.wn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2016recount; 2016swingstates; election; jillstein; mi2016; michigan; recount; stein
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To: fhayek

That’s because they are. No proof needed.


41 posted on 11/26/2016 6:05:27 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: Jim Noble

Nope....doesn’t work that way.


42 posted on 11/26/2016 6:05:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Trump20162020

That’s how the clown, Al Franken, became the senator of MN...repeatedly recounting until they could manufacture enough ballots to elect him.


43 posted on 11/26/2016 6:06:12 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Sacajaweau
Hillary has 232 and all three have to flip in order for her to win

She doesn't have to win now, she just has to pull Trump under 270.

44 posted on 11/26/2016 6:06:26 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Jim Noble
Wisconsin says they will certify before the electoral college meets.

The Demonrats are going to be in four corners staul mode like the old North Carolina /Dean Smith basketball teams...


45 posted on 11/26/2016 6:06:31 PM PST by drewh
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To: Jim Noble

December 13 is the Safe Harbor Date. If the recounts are not done in time for that date, the state legislature will appoint the slate of electors. That almost happened in Florida in 2000.


46 posted on 11/26/2016 6:06:40 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: drewh

We, wife,10 year old and i went to the palm beach recount protest at the palm beach county commission building.
Will it come to this crap, again?
Trump needs to fully prosecute these clinton criminals.
Burn em at the stake.


47 posted on 11/26/2016 6:07:10 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: Jim Noble

The deadline is that they have to be appointed in time to vote on December 19.
(But note the “any controversy ...six days prior” language.

“On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December (December 19, 2016), the electors meet in their respective States. Federal law does not permit the States to choose an alternate date for the meeting of Electors—it must be held on December 19, 2016. The State legislature may designate where in the State the meeting will take place, usually in the State capital. At this meeting, the Electors cast their votes for President and Vice President.
If any Electors are unable to carry out their duties on the day of the Electoral College meeting, the laws of each State would govern the method for filling vacancies. Any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of Electors must be decided under State law at least six days prior to the meeting of the electors. “
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html


48 posted on 11/26/2016 6:08:41 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: UCANSEE2
If it’s volunteer,

The MI GOP is asking for volunteers (and donations). They need to have reps at all the sites where the recounting will be done.

49 posted on 11/26/2016 6:09:00 PM PST by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: drewh
Has anyone figured out why this is actually going on?

Trump won Pennsylvania by over 70,000 votes. That one isn't going to change.

If the other two could even be overturned it would not be enough to alter the outcome.

I don't get it.

50 posted on 11/26/2016 6:09:10 PM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Publius
Whisky will finish before Dec 13, we have to make sure that they are no dirty tricks before that happens...lawyers on the ground pronto!


51 posted on 11/26/2016 6:09:16 PM PST by drewh
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To: stylin19a

Trump needs to petition a recount of several states, the ones she won by a small margin.


52 posted on 11/26/2016 6:09:46 PM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: drewh

So WHO would do the counting?
Would they hire activists with Craigslist ads?


53 posted on 11/26/2016 6:10:38 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: Baynative
Helllary needs a frontwoman for her con so that Chelsea can continue the grifting...and Dr Jill Stein is the usefull commie idiot!

Bubba's crime foundation only had 5 donors last month...

54 posted on 11/26/2016 6:12:05 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Who runs the state elections in Michigan? This is insane. I can see a machine recount but a hand recount. Someone on the MI GOP and the Trump campaign needs their GOP lawyers to stop this recount crap.

A hand recount will not be done before the electors are to meet. Someone will have to take this to court and stop it or at least court mandate machine recount only!

Is the MI Supreme Court majority conservative like Wisconsin’s? !if it is then there is a decent chance the state Supreme Court will shut the recount down if it gets too crazy after machine recount totals show no significant changes from previous official vote totals!


55 posted on 11/26/2016 6:12:08 PM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: Williams

“What if the Democrat volunteers lie?”

If a Democrat lies, and no one around him chooses to hear it, is the Democrat really telling a lie and will the recount in Democrat territory be a recount or a Stalinist recount?

Just asking.

IMHO


56 posted on 11/26/2016 6:12:34 PM PST by ripley
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To: stylin19a

He may as well... if the recount can’t even start until that timetable is completed, it would be well into December beforeeven the procedural stuff is all done.

Since the certified tally is already signed off, Trump could effectively run out the clock and the electors’ votes would have to be made without a recount being completed before the constitutional deadline.


57 posted on 11/26/2016 6:12:39 PM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Jim Noble

I believe your read of the situation is incorrect. The Constitution states that the winner of the EC is whoever has a majority of EC votes from the pool of appointed electors.

If WI, PA, and MI can’t appoint electors then the total number of electors is no longer 538. Total electors would be 492, meaning the winner would need 247 or more to win. If these three states don’t send electors, Trump still has 260 which is more than the 247 required in this scenario.

HRC cannot win by knocking these states out of the EC. She has to flip them blue.

I would also note that if the dems were to knock these states from the EC then campaigning against dems in those states for 2018 will be easy. Don’t vote D, they will disenfranchise you.


58 posted on 11/26/2016 6:13:13 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: drewh

So from now on elections in the United States will be help on election day and then recounted two weeks later so we have a process we all can believe in? This country has gone to hell.


59 posted on 11/26/2016 6:13:34 PM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Baynative

This is only a way to get people to have some doubt and make people upset. It will stir some new drama and some people will believe the election was actually rigged.


60 posted on 11/26/2016 6:13:41 PM PST by FreedBird (T)
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