The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections. We are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania— three states where the data suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals.
To give you a sense of the problem, the voting machines used in Wisconsin were banned in California after they were shown to be highly vulnerable to hacking and malicious programming due to lacking security features.
“After a divisive and painful presidential race, reported hacks into voter and party databases and individual email accounts are causing many American to wonder if our election results are reliable. These concerns need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust.” — Dr. Jill Stein.
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http://www.jill2016.com/2016recounts
Stein’s petition does not provide evidence that any voting machines used in Wisconsin were compromised by hacking or malicious programming. J. Alex Halderman, upon whose affidavit Stein premises her petition, said “Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked.”
Stein’s petition claims than in increase in absentee voters is evidence of an irregularity. Stein’s petition does not provide evidence of any irregularity in the absentee vote process.
Stein’s petition does not provide evidence that any mistake, fraud, defect, irregularity, or illegality has occurred in the conduct of the election in Wisconsin.
Stein wants a recount in order to determine if there is any evidence to support her unsupported claims of irregularities.
Stein’s petition contains errors of fact. For example, the petition claims Arizona’s voter registration systems were breached (petition item 3 a). Halderman’s affidavit cites an NBC news article to support this claim yet the NBC article clearly states “the state [Arizona] concluded that the system was not successfully breached.”
Stein has provided no evidence whatsoever of any irregularity occurring in the conduct of the election in Wisconsin. Halderman has provided no evidence whatsoever of any irregularity occurring in the conduct of the election in Wisconsin, indeed he has said that it is unlikely that the election was “hacked”.
Why is this recount occurring?
The election can not be disrupted so that Stein & Halderman may use it as a testbed for their theories.
> the data suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals.
Discrepancies from your expectations and from prior years is what happens when you lose in a landslide.
It is not evidence of fraud, defect, irregularity, or illegality. It is evidence of your defeat.
“... the voting machines used in Wisconsin were banned ...”
Wisconsin does not use machines or any sort (and has not in the dozen years I’ve lived here), but uses all paper ballots marked with a felt pen and optically scanned. No internet connections. No ‘hacking’ is possible. No idea where that California bit originates, but it is false.