Presidential election recount set to begin in Wisconsin
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Mark Brewer, left, an attorney for Dr. Jill Stein, listened as Jessica Clarke, an attorney for the Stein campaign leading recount efforts in Michigan, addressed the media.
MADISON, Wis. >> The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years was set to begin Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton after polls long predicted a Clinton victory.
The recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein carries none of the drama of the Florida presidential recount of 2000, when the outcome of the election between Al Gore and George W. Bush hung in the balance. Almost no one expects Stein’s push for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to result in a Clinton victory over Trump.
“This is certainly not Bush v. Gore,” said Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator Mike Haas.
But still, county election officials across Wisconsin were hiring temporary workers, expanding hours and dusting off recount manuals to prepare for the work of retabulating nearly 3 million ballots.
Most counties will manually recount the ballots, although Stein lost a court challenge this week to force hand recounts everywhere. The state’s largest county, Milwaukee, was recounting the ballots by feeding them through the same machines that counted them on election night. In Dane County, where Clinton won 71 percent of the vote, the ballots will be counted by hand.
Clinton lost to Trump by about 22,000 votes in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin election officials have less than two weeks to complete the recount. Dec. 13 is the federal deadline to certify the vote to avoid having the fate of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes decided by Congress. Even if that were to happen, the votes would almost certainly go to Trump, since Republicans control both chambers of Congress.
Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities in the votes in all three states suggest that there could have been tampering with the vote, perhaps through a well-coordinated, highly complex cyberattack.
Her critics, including the Wisconsin Republican Party, contend that she’s a little-known candidate who is merely trying to raise her profile while raising millions of dollars. Stein had raised nearly $7 million, about twice as much as her longshot presidential campaign, to pay for the recounts.
The Wisconsin recount was estimated to cost about $3.9 million, while Stein paid $973,250 for the one in Michigan.
Stein filed a lawsuit Monday in Pennsylvania to force a recount there.
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F U T I LE.
Dumb & Dumber.
And the Dumbest.
If she hadn’t run, she probably would have helped Clinton more by giving her votes to Clinton.
Trying to help her after the fact with this recount isn’t all that great.
the lawsuit won’t work because the deadline passed for her to file a recount in Pennsylvania so you female felon supporters your fairytale did not come true, back to playing with clay and crayons you crybabies.
Her real motive is to keep the money left over.
Maybe the Clinton Foundation should hire Stein to be their fundraiser…especially since donations dropped after the elections.
hand counts will not happen a Wisconsin judge just ruled that there was no evidence of hacking or defective machines so hand counting is out.
hand counts will not happen a Wisconsin judge just ruled that there was no evidence of hacking or defective machines so hand counting is out in Wisconsin.
The two witches should get with the program. There is nothing worse than a woman scorned.
Tampering of votes is allowing dead people to vote and those ILLEGAL immigrants. Most Demoncrats are pushing for no proper ID at the polling stations; with rampant ID theft–one vote here one vote there will add up. Tampering with the vote is more likely with this way. Just days before the election, a story ran here on SA about a Cali neighbor finding 80 mail in ballots to a neighbor where there is only one occupant.
Quote of the morning:
“The Democrats will keep counting till they get enough votes to change the outcome of the Election”. ie Al Franken.
Don’t take them lightly folks, at this point they’ll try Anything! We seen this happened in the past.
…….let’s do the math. Jill Stein raised ,thus far 7 million and counting.
7,000,000 minus $973,250= $6,026,750.
$6,026,750 Minus 3.9 = $2,126,750?……WOW! Not Bad!
But if she doesn’t get the Wisconsin count,because of a Wisconsin judge ruling it down. She makes a COOL $6,026,750
Double Wow ! Not bad for Losing! And Jill?
Doesn’t have to return the balance,she keeps it! It’s all a Scam Folks!