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Green Party drops PA case, plans to go federal
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | December 3, 2016 | Marc Levy / Associated Press

Posted on 12/04/2016 1:06:55 AM PST by tank_sherman

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Green Party-backed voters dropped a court case Saturday night that had sought to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, in what Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had framed as an effort to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.

But later Saturday night, the party announced it’ll go to federal court instead. A statement from the lead lawyer for the recount campaign says it’ll seek an emergency federal court order for the recount. It says barriers to a recount in Pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court system isn’t equipped to address them.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016recount; donaldtrump; greenparty; jillstein; pa2016; pennsylvania; recount; stein; trump
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To: djpg; Enlightened1
Why do you say that? They seem to be Trump supporters who are just stating facts, whether we like them or not.

Thank you djpg for stating that in such a balanced manner. Even with a known win, emotions are running high. I know mine are.

Enlightened1, I know where you're coming from, but this has been addressed over and over and the facts are known by people who have been following it.

Fact #1: we already know that illegal votes have been widely used by the criminal Clinton campaign. We also know that they believed their own lies (they really are that dumb) that the phony polls were accurate. They could not see what rational people DID see.

Fact #2: Those 25,000 uncounted votes in a place that is known for cheating were there from before the election. The fact that 20,000 extra votes for the Cretin undoubtedly contain illegal votes. THE DAMN FOOLS DIDN'T STEAL ENOUGH IN THE FACE OF THE TRUMP TSUNAMI!

Fact #3: Those votes were not counted on election night because Trump won too Big League for them to make a difference even if every single one of them went for the skank, and the pressure to call it on election night precluded the full count. That count (accurate though certainly FALSE) was counted when they had the time.

Is it okay to put up those figures that we are sure are partly fraudulent? Absolutely not, but we didn't need to contest it because it doesn't change the electoral count. What we DO need to do is make vote fraud, either by the skank voter (voting multiple times)or the skank counters, punishable by jail time. This would stop the skanks from running buses full of cheats and those who stuff the boxes think a little more about cheating.

141 posted on 12/04/2016 8:37:02 AM PST by Sal (Time for Deplorables to flush the 'PEE away! Flush all the Unipartyers.)
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To: neonovanglus

Is there an article/source on this 108% finding (shockingly/s, I haven’t seen anything in the MSM about this)? Wondering exactly how this happens (ballot box stuffing is all I can figure)? Not doubting it occurs so much as how to remedy it in the future.


142 posted on 12/04/2016 8:45:37 AM PST by Moonlighter
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To: Enlightened1

They didn’t bring enough bullets...


143 posted on 12/04/2016 8:50:37 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: SisterK
If a feral judge overrides PA on this, that judge is actively breaking PA law.

...and needs to be impeached, setting a precedent for removing activist judges.

144 posted on 12/04/2016 8:58:47 AM PST by Sal (Time for Deplorables to flush the 'PEE away! Flush all the Unipartyers.)
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To: billyboy15

“the reason these votes went so heavily for Clinton is because they are all from Philly which is almost 100% Democrat.”

They were absentee ballots from overseas, which means the military. 90% of military votes go to Trump. No way in hell Clinton worn 22 thousand. Fraud.


145 posted on 12/04/2016 9:07:44 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: reaganaut
Yeah, but... Bush was a compliant pussy.
146 posted on 12/04/2016 9:15:52 AM PST by Sal (Time for Deplorables to flush the 'PEE away! Flush all the Unipartyers.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Even overseas votes most have name and address on them so the votes go to proper precinct. The vote count of 25,000 total were 100% Philly.


147 posted on 12/04/2016 9:43:06 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: reaganaut

But they at least have recent manicures.


148 posted on 12/04/2016 9:45:24 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Actually correct. Vote totals for Both Trump and Clinton went up, but the difference was larger, i.e. 20,000.

At election to now, Trump went from 2.912 MM to 2.965 MM
Clinton went from 2.844 MM to 2.917 MM

Thus the change from 68 K difference to about 48 K. Some other counties are still tallying their absentee votes, which are going more for Trump.


149 posted on 12/04/2016 9:59:50 AM PST by bobsunshine
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To: tank_sherman

If these Green retards are so worried about the “integrity” of our elections, why aren’t they pushing for proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter I.D. Hmmmmm? These retards need to go back to their asylums and stop being obnoxious pains in the @$$.


150 posted on 12/04/2016 10:04:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: tank_sherman

“The announcement that it would seek an emergency federal court order on Monday for a recount came hours after it dropped a case in the state courts.”

I would think pretty much any Federal court would immediately reject such a request because the issue isn’t ripe for Federal consideration since the plaintiff failed to exhaust all possible State remedies first.

Seeking a Federal court order at this point is nothing more than a cheap publicity stunt, certainly cheaper than actually following the actual Pennsylvania state law that requires a one million dollar bond to proceed, which would of course would be an EXPENSIVE publicity stunt.


151 posted on 12/04/2016 10:13:51 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

From Yahoo

“Her recount request in Pennsylvania was complicated by opposition from Trump. Michigan’s attorney general filed suit to halt Stein’s recounts efforts in that state. And in Wisconsin, Trump supporters tried to stop the recount but it is underway.”

The media’s new rally cry is that Trump is trying to steal the election from Clinton!!


152 posted on 12/04/2016 10:58:57 AM PST by lionstar
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To: tank_sherman

this is the dem strategy , The Chester County (PA) Democratic Committee (CCDC) collected enough affidavits to have at least 60% of our precincts recounted. We collected over 400 affidavits in about 3 days to force this recount. An exceptional effort.

This recount is independent of the court-ordered recount that the Stein campaign cancelled. We took our affidavits directly to Voter Services, not the court system. It is being done at no cost to the petitioners. Two officers of the CCDC led this effort with strong support from our Zone Leaders and Committee Persons. It should be noted that we did this as volunteers for the Stein campaign, not for any other political party or organization. We had good support from the Stein campaign who sent two lawyers to Chester County to help us with the legal details.

It should be noted that we have paper ballots in Chester County which are counted by machine. Chester County is one of only 6 or 8 counties in Pennsylvania which vote using paper ballots.


153 posted on 12/04/2016 11:20:10 AM PST by DvdMom
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To: Vigilanteman

Have you heard of others doing this in Pa ?


154 posted on 12/04/2016 11:24:34 AM PST by DvdMom
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To: billyboy15

I don’t care where a soldier’s hometown is, Philly included, Clinton is not picking up 22 thousand absentee votes and Trump 0. Not happening. The exact same thing happened four years ago when some Philly district came back that was 100% for Obama, ZERO for Romney. Not happening. This is out-and-out fraud.


155 posted on 12/04/2016 11:29:30 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: NKP_Vet

I just saw on Twitter that they are obviously still counting in PA and Clinton has now gained 27,000 votes. What’s up with that? I thought they were finished. I realize that the 22,000 were the provisionals and mail-in votes but I thought those were complete.


156 posted on 12/04/2016 11:38:20 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: Tennessee Conservative

From Dem’s bragging , there also doing this

The Chester County (PA) Democratic Committee (CCDC) collected enough affidavits to have at least 60% of our precincts recounted. We collected over 400 affidavits in about 3 days to force this recount. An exceptional effort.

This recount is independent of the court-ordered recount that the Stein campaign cancelled. We took our affidavits directly to Voter Services, not the court system. It is being done at no cost to the petitioners. Two officers of the CCDC led this effort with strong support from our Zone Leaders and Committee Persons. It should be noted that we did this as volunteers for the Stein campaign, not for any other political party or organization. We had good support from the Stein campaign who sent two lawyers to Chester County to help us with the legal details.

It should be noted that we have paper ballots in Chester County which are counted by machine. Chester County is one of only 6 or 8 counties in Pennsylvania which vote using paper ballots.


157 posted on 12/04/2016 11:41:10 AM PST by DvdMom
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To: DvdMom
Here is the twitter post.


158 posted on 12/04/2016 11:43:29 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: DvdMom

So is there anybody from our side watching these recounts?


159 posted on 12/04/2016 11:44:43 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: Tennessee Conservative

Bingo ! That is what I would like to know too !


160 posted on 12/04/2016 11:50:00 AM PST by DvdMom
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