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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Sun Nov 27, 2016, 08:51 AM Nov 2016

The Clinton campaign have decided to support the recount.

It should go without saying that we take these concerns extremely seriously. We certainly understand the heartbreak felt by so many who worked so hard to elect Hillary Clinton, and it is a fundamental principle of our democracy to ensure that every vote is properly counted.

Moreover, this election cycle was unique in the degree of foreign interference witnessed throughout the campaign: the U.S. government concluded that Russian state actors were behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the personal email accounts of Hillary for America campaign officials, and just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Russian government was behind much of the “fake news” propaganda that circulated online in the closing weeks of the election.

For all these reasons, we have quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks to rule in or out any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally in these critical battleground states.



MORE:https://medium.com/@marceelias/listening-and-responding-to-calls-for-an-audit-and-recount-2a904717ea39#.mxwv6ui2z






Elias, a go-to lawyer for Democrats in recount fights and redistricting battles, has now taken a prominent and somewhat controversial place among the coalition of groups challenging a wave of state election laws that were rewritten in recent years

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/26/1604370/-Quick-Hit-Marc-Erik-Elias-lawyer-for-the-Clinton-Campaign




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The Clinton campaign have decided to support the recount. (Original Post) kpete Nov 2016 OP
For once, I agree with Comrade Casino (R) Achilleaze Nov 2016 #1

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. For once, I agree with Comrade Casino (R)
Sun Nov 27, 2016, 09:05 AM
Nov 2016

The Republican-Russian cabal apparently did rig the US election. What a corrupt cluster of evil toxic-male wankers.

I hereby call on the Republican party to display a scintilla of honesty and integrity, for a change, and forthwith to dump Trump.

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