Posted on 12/01/2016 11:54:52 AM PST by stylin19a
This recount nonsense is so totally idiotic, it just makes me upset. That said, it will doubtless show that Trump won.
Oh good grief...That was both hilarious yet so sad at the same time...I feel bad for that little girl being raised by such weak parents. On the bright side, at least it wasn’t a boy, we don’t need any more pansies in the country. That “father” needs to spend a few days with Gen. Mad Dog Mattis. I wanted to leave a comment on the vid but decided not to just out of respect for the innocent daughter. lol
Wow...just...wow... LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ci67gutvs
Wisconsin is following the rule of law. Their law does not require proof of wrong, simply a candidate willing to pay.
Shouldn’t they only recount Trump and Stein ballots? After all, it’s not like Hilliary is involved in this recount - surely it’s grassroots Green members paying for this. /s
I hate to put it this way, but a electing a black man as President trumped electing a woman as President. The Democrats are so tied up in identity politics, they were willing to nominate a back-bencher from the Illinois Senate that stumbled into the US Senate simply due to the color of his skin.
They nominated a candidate that is quite possibly the least qualified for the Presidency in modern times. But, they got what they wanted -- someone that was willing to mostly play golf and do what he was told to do by party insiders.
His one "signature" legislation was rammed through Congress without a single Republican vote, and thanks to the chicanery they had to play to get it passed with no debate after losing the 60th Senate seat, it was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever enacted.
What? You don’t remember how demoncrats needed three recounts and mysteriously “found” a final box of uncounted ballots that came from someone’s home to beat Norm Coleman in Minnesota?
Your analysis is spot on, I think
In the end, he did what he has always done...agitate, divide. Enflame, it is the only thing he knows how to do
History will judge him harshly.
Menominee County results show that Jill Stein was the big winner of a net 17 votes. She also helped Hillary close her margin by 1. That’s 1 down and 22000+ to go ;)
I like your tagline.
see here for WI recount info and results spreadsheet
http://elections.wi.gov/publications/statistics/recount/2016/12-1-spreadsheet
“firebrands” = loud-mouthed ignoramuses.
He won a huge re-election from the same people who voted Trump. There is no point in mplaining about Ryan anymore.
I have no sympathy.
As a white guy I am constantly on alert for weirdos who might attack me. Or my family.
The following are details of the only three elections changed from recounts (Wikipedia):
Al Franken, Minnesota, 2008 “Preliminary reports on election night, November 4, had Coleman ahead by over 700 votes, but the official results certified on November 18, 2008, had Coleman leading by only 215 votes. As the two candidates were separated by less than 0.5 percent, the Secretary of State of Minnesota Mark Ritchie, authorized an automatic recount stipulated in Minnesota election law. In the recount, ballots and certifying materials were examined by hand, and candidates could file challenges to the legality of ballots or materials for inclusion or exclusion with regard to the recount. On January 5, 2009, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board certified the recounted vote totals, with Franken ahead by 225 votes.[60]
On January 6, 2009, Coleman’s campaign filed an election contest, which led to a trial before a three-judge panel.[61] The trial ended on April 7, when the panel ruled that 351 of 387 disputed absentee ballots were incorrectly rejected and ordered them counted. Counting those ballots raised Franken’s lead to 312 votes.”
Thomas Salmon, Vermont 2006-”In the 2006 Vermont Auditor of Accounts election, Salmon challenged Republican incumbent Randolph D. “Randy” Brock. With over 250,000 votes cast, the initial vote tally put Brock ahead by just 137 votes. Salmon requested a recount, and on December 21, 2006, he was declared the winner by a margin of 102 votes. This was one of the closest election victories in Vermont history, and the first time in the state’s history that a statewide election’s initially reported result was overturned by a recount”
Christine Gregoire, Washington gubernatorial race, 2004-
“The initial result, as reported by Secretary of State Sam Reed, showed Dino Rossi with a lead of 261 votes, well within the margin for an automatic machine recount pursuant to Washington state law (less than 0.5% and less than 2,000 votes). After a statewide recount completed on November 24, Rossi again came away with the lead, this time by 42 votes.[9]
After Rossi was certified as the victor on November 29, Washington State Secretary of State said that “a manual recount was almost a certainty.”
King County Council Chairman Larry Phillips was at a Democratic Party office in Seattle on Sunday December 12, reviewing a list of voters whose absentee votes had been rejected due to signature problems, when to his surprise he found his own name listed. Phillips said he was certain he had filled out and signed his ballot correctly, and asked the county election officials to investigate the discrepancy. They discovered that Phillips’ signature had somehow failed to be scanned into the election computer system after he submitted his request for an absentee ballot. Election workers claimed that they had received Phillips’ absentee ballot in the mail, but they could not find his signature in the computer system to compare to the one on the ballot envelope, so they mistakenly rejected the ballot instead of following the standard procedure of checking it against the signature of Phillips’ physical voter registration card that was on file. The discovery prompted King County Director of Elections Dean Logan to order his staff to search the computers to see if any other ballots had been incorrectly rejected.
Logan announced on December 13 that 561 absentee ballots in the county had been wrongly rejected due to an administrative error.[13] The next day, workers retrieving voting machines from precinct storage found an additional 12 ballots, bringing the total to 572 newly discovered ballots. Logan admitted the lost ballots were an oversight on the part of his department, and insisted that the found ballots be counted. On December 15, the King County Canvassing Board voted 2-1 in favor of counting the discovered ballots
The state Democratic party claimed on December 21 that the result of the manual recount, including King County’s votes, placed Gregoire ahead by eight votes across the state. Later, on December 22, the preliminary recount results put Gregoire at a ten-vote lead.”
These three cases share in common among themselves very extremely small margins at the first count, that automatic recounts were done well within the accepted parameters of the election laws governing these three states, that relatively very small numbers of ballots that had been improperly rejected or missed previously were involved in the recounts, and that the end results also involved very small victory margins for Franken, Salmon, and Gregoire. Given all of this, it really is not realistic to compare the current situation with Franken or the two other cases.
Wow she joined in July? DU hasn't had a sign-up for at least a decade lol...
Same here. Note that the original short thread that bob cited, the last post said it succinctly (paraphrasing): 'not only are these recounts not going to change anything, but they will legitimize his [President Trump's] win.'
But the woman that bob cited? WOW what a nut. You could build a mile-long Stuckey's pecan log roll with her posts...
Popular Vote = Rushing Yards.....Electoral Votes = Touchdowns....
The poll worker actually looks at a voter’s marked ballot?
When our machines rejected a voter’s ballot, we’d ask him/her to check it over and make sure they filled it out properly, then put in the machine again. If it was rejected again, we’d put it with “spoiled” ballots and give the voter a new one. We never looked at a marked ballot. Ever.
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