Judge orders Michigan recount to begin at noon Monday
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Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein meets her supporters during a campaign stop at Humanist Hall in Oakland, Calif.
DETROIT >> Michigan must begin its presidential recount at noon Monday, a federal judge ruled in a late-night order that could make it more likely the state will complete the count ahead of a Dec. 13 deadline.
In his ruling Sunday night, Judge Mark Goldsmith rejected an effort by state officials to delay the hand-counting of about 4.8 million ballots.
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein argued that a law is unconstitutional that requires a break of at least two business days after the Board of Canvassers’ final action on a recount request. Goldsmith found that Stein had “shown the likelihood of irreparable harm” if the count was delayed even by two days and rejected the state’s arguments about the cost to taxpayers.
Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes, or two-tenths of a percentage point, in Michigan. Stein received about 1 percent of the vote.
Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette, the Trump campaign and super PACs have filed separate lawsuits asking state courts to prevent the recount, arguing that Stein, as the fourth-place finisher, is not “aggrieved” because she has no chance of winning in a recount.
The Green Party also wants recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 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.
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Elections officials in the three states, all narrowly won by Trump, have expressed confidence in their results. Even if all three recounts happen, none were expected to give Clinton enough votes to emerge as the winner.
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The last sentence in the article summarizes the futile attempts by the Crooked hiLIARy & Stein cartels.
January 20, 2012 #MAGA
You don’t sleep. You troll all night. Maybe get alerts from your favorite SA?
Eh NanakuliBoss GM….oh dear you up so late 9:17pm…I was in dreamland and had a dream my family & I had front row seats watching President Donald J Trump’s Inauguration!!
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
lol, Look who’s reading and posting 9pm. “smh”
lol they always open the door for ridicule! They just don’t know when to shut it…the door.
Stein is doing MI a favor by spending all of that ca$h on a recount.
Demmies are sore losers.
No one, not Jill Stein, not Hillary Clinton, not anyone pushing for recounts has ever suggested that their aim is overturn the results. The recounts are about election integrity. No one has spread more false information about fraudulent elections than Donald Trump, and it is the height of hypocrisy for him to claim that elections are rigged and to tweet lies about millions of illegal voters and then to criticize recounts that are intended to investigate election integrity.
The countdown timer is ticking. Their options are dwindling. The last gasp is hysterics. Then silence… we hope.
One by one they are finally getting the message.
A jail cell for Waldo Clinton and a rubber room for nutty Dr. Stein. The Green Party may be green on the outside but it’s commie/progressive red on the inside.
Wonder how much she is being paid as the leader of the group as compared to the rest of the paid staff? Income for her nest egg?
BEWARE of the 2020 Democratic ticket; Liberals of steroids:
PochaHauntess/FrankinSTEIN! Yikes!
Now that IS scary! lol
In a court filing in Michigan, Trump’s lawyers effectively called him a liar when they said, “All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.”
Two thoughts. 1 – This would be a lot more credible if she had stated her lack of confidence in the US election system before the election. 2 – If she’s correct, our country is in really bad shape if we can’t trust the results of elections, which is fundamental to our everything we are as a country.
Russian hackers? Bwaah! So why not audit all 50 states? Probably blame ufo’s next.
Voter ID would solve the problem. I have no idea why democrats oppose it so vociferously.
i agree about the ID.
It seems quite remarkable that someone who got about 1% of the vote can ask for a recount with no direct evidence of any problem.
Does this mean that anyone can ask for a recount?