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Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results
FiveThirtyEight.com ^ | November 27, 2016 | Carl Bialik

Posted on 11/27/2016 1:31:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Wisconsin vote in the presidential election is undergoing a recount. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who requested the Wisconsin recount, also has raised funds for a recount in Pennsylvania and is seeking more funds for one in Michigan and possibly other states. Could the recounts possibly change the outcome in any of the states? Not if they go anything like statewide recounts over the last 16 years.

Recounts typically don’t swing enough votes to change the winner. Out of 4,687 statewide general elections between 2000 and 2015, just 27 were followed by recounts, according to data compiled by FairVote, a nonpartisan group that researches elections and promotes electoral reform. Just three of those 27 recounts resulted in a change in the outcome, all leading to wins for Democrats: Al Franken’s win in Minnesota’s 2008 U.S. Senate race, Thomas M. Salmon’s win in Vermont’s 2006 auditor election and Christine Gregoire’s win in Washington’s 2004 gubernatorial race.

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To: LouAvul

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41 posted on 11/27/2016 2:56:50 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: faithhopecharity

No, it hasbeen proven that the media made that ststement up as he never said it.


42 posted on 11/27/2016 3:03:49 PM PST by stockpirate (OBAMA MUST BE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.)
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To: neocon1984

thanks for this tidbit of info.


43 posted on 11/27/2016 3:09:54 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: doragsda
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44 posted on 11/27/2016 3:18:25 PM PST by jetson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dems STOLE the Washington governership with 3 recounts


45 posted on 11/27/2016 3:22:52 PM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not a recount.

It is a “post-election, fraudulent vote insertion operation”


46 posted on 11/27/2016 4:00:09 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Don't stop until all are in jail. Drain the swamp. Build the wall.)
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To: MountainWalker

And Nevada and Colorado.


47 posted on 11/27/2016 4:03:49 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: stockpirate

Super!


48 posted on 11/27/2016 4:07:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero. $500for an appraisal of gen on)
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To: DoodleDawg

it won’t change winner of election but it will change many people’s views of politicians, leaders, voting, etc, etc

-— YOU wrote : “There is no way that this recount is going to change anything.”


49 posted on 11/27/2016 4:08:21 PM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: b4me

And?


50 posted on 11/27/2016 5:23:48 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Az Joe

While I see your point, I look at it this way:

Think for a moment how poorly Hillary really did. On the day she announced her candidacy, a year and a half ago, she had NY, CA, and IL in her pocket. No effort, no money to spend, these were automatic EVs for her that totalled up to 104. She started with that. Yes, she had some NE states locked, and Trump had a few (MT, WY, ID) but the NE and Trump’s were a wash, so Hillary really started with a 104 advantage, meaning she only needed to campaign to win 166 to make the magic 270, while Trump’s campaign need to win the full 270.

At the end of it all, she only “won” 128 electoral votes (ending up at 232) and Trump “won” 306. He outperformed her by two and one-half times in the campaign. A complete rout.


51 posted on 11/27/2016 5:25:40 PM PST by doragsda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Click on state for vote count.

https://elections16.commercialappeal.com/results/president


52 posted on 11/27/2016 7:33:30 PM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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