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Stein switches tactics in Pennsylvania recount drive



(I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THIS GOES TO THE SUPREME CT.)



AFPDecember 3, 2016





Washington (AFP) - Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein switched tactics in her campaign to force a recount in Pennsylvania, one of three battleground states won by Donald Trump where she has challenged the results.
The party dropped a bid to pursue the recount in a state court, citing difficulties raising a million dollar bond demanded by the tribunal. It said it would instead press on in federal court and file suit Monday.
That was also Stein's deadline for raising the bond money.
"Make no mistake -— the Stein campaign will continue to fight for a statewide recount in Pennsylvania," attorney Jonathan Abady said in a statement.
"Over the past several days, it has become clear that the barriers to verifying the vote in Pennsylvania are so pervasive and that the state court system is so ill-equipped to address this problem that we must seek federal court intervention," Abady said.
"Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means. They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the court," read a filing submitted earlier in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, announcing the state court drive was being dropped.
Stein plans to hold a rally on Monday across the street from Trump Tower in New York "vowing to fight tooth and nail to verify the accuracy, security and fairness of the vote," a statement read.
On Twitter, she added: "How odd is it that we must jump through bureaucratic hoops and raise millions of dollars so we can trust our election results? #Recount2016.
"#Recount2016 is so expensive because of elected leaders who have refused to invest in a 21st-century voting system," she said.
Stein's fundraising efforts for recounts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have brought in nearly $7 million so far, according to her website. In all three traditionally Democratic-leaning states, Trump only narrowly defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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.
Stein's campaign has cited unspecified "anomalies" as grounds to mount a challenge in all three Rust Belt states.
The move came amid stepped-up calls from some of the president-elect's leftist opponents to challenge the results of the November 8 election, which followed a bitter campaign that included persistent charges of Russian hacking and allegations by Trump of fraud.
Although experts say there is virtually no chance of overturning the result, the demands could reignite debate over the legitimacy of Trump's election, already fueled by Clinton's lead in the popular vote which now stands at around 2.5 million.
Trump has stated without offering evidence that "millions" of people voted illegally and that were it not for this he would have won the popular vote as well.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-green-party-drops-election-recount-bid-pennsylvania-020036851.html

Did Jill Stein Get the 27,000 Affidavits Needed for a Pennsylvania Recount?

by Breitbart News28 Nov 2016


HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 28 (UPI) — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein officially filed for an election recount in Pennsylvania on Monday, but she needs to do a lot more to actually get elections officials to start reviewing votes — and she doesn’t have much time to do it.
Stein filed a request with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation on Monday, meeting the deadline for a recount. Last week, her campaign successfully filed for similar efforts in Wisconsin, and this week she will file for a recount in Michigan, where the deadline is Wednesday.
Stein is asking for the recount in those three states to ensure election integrity, amid theories that voting machines could have been tampered with. Donald Trump won all three states over Hillary Clinton by slim margins, and a reversal of the results would give Clinton enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
But Stein’s fight in the Keystone State will be a very difficult one.
In order to actually trigger a recount statewide, which is the goal, Stein needs to find nearly 30,000 individual voters and have them submit an affidavit requesting the recount — that’s three voters for all 9,163 precincts in the state. If she does find 27,000-plus voters to do that, they must file their affidavits by the end of business Monday.
“We need volunteers to observe #Recount2016 and voters to fill out affidavits to initiate the Pennsylvania recount,” Stein tweeted on Monday afternoon.
If those requirements are not satisfied, there will be no recount in Pennsylvania — at least not without a lawsuit.
“We are going to jump through some hoops,” Stein said in a video Monday, which asked Pennsylvania voters to help with the recount effort. “This current system, that needs to be democracized, makes it very difficult for us to vote and for us to have confidence in our votes because of these very hack-friendly electronic machines that we use.”
“In Pennsylvania, it’s especially complicated,” she continued. “Pennsylvania is the only state in which the recount process has to be initiated by, actually, thousands of voters.”
A lawsuit would be the only recourse if the recount requirements aren’t met. And any such suit would need to present evidence of voting irregularities to be successful.
Stein campaign attorney Lawrence Otter said he intended to file a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court on Monday asking for a statewide recount, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Even if Stein accomplishes a recount, some observers say it’s unlikely Clinton can overcome Trump’s lead of more than 70,000 votes. Reports have put Clinton behind by about 23,000 in Wisconsin and less than 10,000 in Michigan.
Clinton’s campaign, which has so far not ordered a recount, said it agrees with Stein’s efforts in principle, but has not called for recounts because no evidence has been uncovered of potential voting fraud.
Some computer scientists have claimed it’s possible for malware to have been uploaded to the voting machines before Nov. 8. However, those experts have maintained that no evidence of such tampering has yet been produced.
Also complicating the issue is the fact that Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that mostly tabulates votes 100 percent electronically, with no paper-backed audit.
“The nightmare scenario would be if Pennsylvania decides the election and it is very close. You would have no paper records to do a recount,” voting expert Lawrence Norden told the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 20.
“Pennsylvania is using technology from the ’80s made by the companies that don’t exist anymore. In computer years, that’s a very long time ago,” Pamela Smith, president of Verified Voting, said.
However, the very fact that the voting machines are old may be what makes the recount debate moot.

“They can’t be hacked,” Gerald Feaser, Jr., elections director for Dauphin County, told the Times.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/jill-stein-beats-deadline-in-pennsylvania-but-faces-uphill-battle-for-recount/