Posted on 12/07/2016 2:47:55 PM PST by bobsunshine
Updated at 2 pm
Jill Steins Pennsylvania recount attempt continues to sputter, with a Wednesday ruling from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas denying her request to have the citys electronic voting machines examined.
The request to forensically study the machines was considered by her lawyers to be one of the best ways to determine the validity of the votes, and they had previously said they thought they had a chance in court. The citys Election Board had already refused to let Steins computer experts examine the machines.
Judge Abbe F. Fletman wrote in her decision that Stein basically missed her chance to examine the machines. Stein and any other candidate legally had the opportunity to monitor tests of the machines administered by the Election Board the before, during and after the election, she wrote, and could have even made independent tests during the election process provided the testing didnt interfere with the tabulation of votes. She noted Stein and her associates did not make clear whether they took advantage of these opportunities, and wrote that state law doesnt allow for more independent testing as requested by Stein.
This is especially true when, as in this case, there is absolutely no evidence of any voting irregularities, Fletman wrote. To the contrary, the elected and appointed officials charged with safeguarding our voting system uniformly maintain its integrity.
This court action was slightly different from the recount that already took place in Philadelphia. Over the weekend, the city recounted electronic votes and paper ballots from 75 of Philadelphias 1600-plus voting districts. Hillary Clinton ended up with five more votes from paper ballots that were not detected by an optical scanning system, and City Commissioner Al Schmidt said the recount turned up no evidence of possible hacking or fraud.
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Does she want to swab the machines for Clinton’s DNA?
Are they dead?............
please someone.... help Jill gather up the lost marbles.
It’s to avoid embarrassment that this idiot will find out the machines are not connected to the internet so it’s not HACKED as she claims it to be.
Maybe this judge realizes what a political whore this hag really is.
Examine them like Ducky does on NCIS?
Another court defeat for stupid cow Stein.
As the court noted, she had plenty of opportunities to have voting machines tested. She never bothered.
Its a little late to ask PA to do something for her she could have done much earlier.
What happened to the other court decision that was supposed to be made or was made today.
I’m starting to wonder if Stein is only pushing this to the point of absurdity to protect herself from potential lawsuits by people who donated money to her.
Judge: “Ms Stein, have you forgotten the first rule of the Philadelphia Vote Cheater’s Club?”
“Does she want to swab the machines for Clintons DNA?”
Don’t you mean “wipe”?
Examining the code is a recipe for creating more confusion. The cost of all of this should be billed to Hillary Clinton since she is calling the shots.
Okay, SoroStein is beyond ridiculous now.. TIME FOR THE COURTS TO MAKE THIS IRRITATING ‘HEMORRHOID OF A HUMAN BEING’ GO AWAY.
If at first you don’t succeed, appeal, appeal, appeal some more.
No wonder Jill said lawyers fees could be in the millions.
I can’t imagine why the Philly democrats wouldn’t want their machines to be “forensically examined” ...
She is just a tool for the Clinton campaign to deny 3 states their votes in the Electoral College -
More like punishment for PA, MI and WI - Trump messed up their plan because not enough voters came out for Crooked Hillary.
Are these the same “experts” that said WI was hacked but now the recount is over halfway there is no evidence of this?
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