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Jill Stein filed for a recount in Michigan on Tuesday. Today, Trump filed an objection, noting the following issues with the filing:
1. As the fourth-place finisher, Dr. Jill Stein is not “aggrieved” by any alleged fraud or mistake, and is therefore not entitled to a recount. .
2. A recount cannot be completed in time for Michigan to have its Electoral College votes counted.
3. The petition must also be rejected because it is not properly signed and sworn to by the candidate.While Stein did claim to ‘be aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake’, she makes no showing of any fraud or how said fraud could have impacted her. The meaning of ‘aggrieved’, Trump’s lawyers argue means that she has a requirement to show how said fraud or mistake impacted her. She hasn’t said anything occurred which would truly justify the recount.
The problem then becomes that, as Trump’s lawyers point out, the time is short and there is a question of whether they can get a count done in time. Because they will need to employ many people on overtime and employ a lot of resources, the amount spent would not be covered by the nearly million dollar fee that Stein paid.
Jill Stein just another example of why liberals and especialy Liberal Demacrats cant ever be trusted they’ll drag this nation into a quagmire just for the demac-RATS and the useless Nations
Jill Stein plans to raise enough money to pay for all of the recounts. Taxpayers wouldn’t be footing the bill. So what is Trump worried about?
Maybe there should be an investigation into the Russian hackers.
@Greg:
The recount is not going to change the results of 11/08 enough to effect the results. You constantly berate the American People who voted against the failed policies of the left because you are unable to accept the will of the People. You and others hide behind this ridiculous attempt to point out that there was malfeasance when in fact if there was, it is unlikely it would be enough to change anything. The effort is a waste of time and money. The recount queen is a snake oil sales woman…….
The money she is raising for the most part is coming from nefarious individuals, not the populace at large….
@Greg: Not even the Clintons believe the Russians hacked the voting machines. Get a life!
Steins just another leftists liberal scum sucking lowlife no account sidewinder and cowardly polecat that needs to leave america along with those Hollywood twats
@Randy, #4:
They hacked public opinion. Do you think the DNC and other targeted hacks and carefully timed releases of information to the media had no effect on the outcome of the election? You probably don’t think the misleading information leaked by unidentified sources inside FBI had any effect, either.
Given all of the bullshit that obviously did go down, nobody should be ignoring the observation of computer scientists that there appear to be anomalous patterns suggestive of election tampering.
If there’s no problem with the vote count, the recount will reassure people who have doubts. If there is a problem and it’s ignored, we will have just surrendered the democratic process that makes America what it is.
I want to know why this is happening:
Trump allies try to freeze recount efforts
Don’t these frickin’ idiots realize trying to block a closer examination of the voting process only makes people question it more? It’s certainly adding to my own doubts, which were relatively minor to begin with. Do they suspect the election was rigged to put Trump in office? Is the popular vote margin making them nervous? Maybe they think people are going to suddenly realize what they’ve elected, and don’t want anything this casts doubt on the legitimacy of the process—even though their own candidate was the one who kept insisting the election was rigged.
The Latest: Judge allows recount to continue in Wisconsin Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania:
Another 3-tenths of 1 percent shift could trigger an automatic recount.
I can see why Trump forces are trying to block a closer examination of the election results. The discovery of a few of relatively minor errors could change the election results. It’s unlikely, but it’s possible.
Clinton won the popular vote by a wide margin of over 2.5 million votes. Trump will very likely win the Electoral College election to be held on December 19th by a wide margin, but that wide margin was determined by relatively narrow popular vote margins in a handful of states.
@Greg:
How interesting that the left, after repeated dismissiveness about the existence of vote fraud – which they claimed doesn’t exist – and the disingenuously racist claims that minorities are too incompetent to obtain a valid photo ID to vote (filing repeated lawsuits to overturn legislation requiring said ID to cast votes) are demanding recounts because after their horrible candidate lost, the left now suddenly believes in the existence of vote fraud.
Notice the left isn’t interested in investigating illegal alien and non-citizen voting in California and Colorado. Hell, the left won’t even acknowledge the pre-election democrat vote fraud operations in places like Indiana and Florida that were discovered.
This “computer expert” nonsense meme has been debunked. Clinton LOST. The bulk of her popular vote totals over Trump’s totals came from California, where the dems set up a voter registration system that makes it easy for illegals to vote. If leftists were really interested in ending inappropriate votes, they would stop their racist opposition to voter ID laws. This entire recount effort is nothing but another Gregoire-Franken attempt to steal an election.
Pennsylvania is over, the tallying is done and the margin does not trigger an auto recount. Stein missed the November 21 deadline for recount so all that could be done is to contest the results, which will not occur on the behalf of Stein…..