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Experts pointed us towards WI, PA, & MI as the largest chance of fraud, but we would support efforts elsewhere to uphold election integrity.Dr. Jill Stein added,
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Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem!
https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/803056727985823744
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)The TrumpConservatives replying to her certainly have their panties in a bunch, don't they? Especially that blonde Fox wannabe.
Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)...be doing this because she feels her vote totals should be higher - but I have no problem with Ms. Stein's efforts and would be interested to see if a California recount showed anyone winning but Hillary Clinton!
DFW
(54,372 posts)I don't suppose Washington, D.C. or Oklahoma are on her radar........?
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)IMHO she's trolling him.
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this? Serious bias - big problem!
DFW
(54,372 posts)I'm not on twitter, and don't follow Trump's tweets.
Although, come to think of it, some of them are so loony, it might be worth it for that alone....
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)DFW
(54,372 posts)If that's possible having a job that puts me in a different country every day.
Although the last 2 weeks, I have been hardly moving at all, with my wife in the hospital. I am lucky to have a job that lets me take a leave of absence, although I wish I were doing it for other reasons.
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)DFW
(54,372 posts)When I am mobile again, I'm going to have to be on the road for 20 days nonstop to make up for lost time, but as long as she's in there, I'm here. Luckily, I work for a place that lets me make those decisions.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)I hope your wife is doing better.
if you were still in the US, you'd be screwed with this 'leave of absence' stuff unless you worked for some company that valued its employees which is rare these days. cheers.
tip: I hope you're right about the recounts. You can create a twitter account and follow some news stations that hang on every trump tweet and there would be no need to actually follow him. that's what I do.
DFW
(54,372 posts)One in Texas no less. The CEO is the one who told me to take off as much time as I needed--with pay! Ours IS a company that values its employees. One with a heart, too. One time, one of our guys got totally deranged by some "Christian" fanatic, and became one himself. His wife left him, and he had to be let go after trying trying to convert everyone at work. Still, because he had been around for a long time, the CEO decided to keep him nominally on the payroll for half a year so he could keep his health insurance until he found a new job. That's just the kind of people I work with/for.
Not all American employers are as heartless as they are reputed to be (just most of them, from what I hear). For that matter, most employers here in Germany wouldn't be any more understanding than most Americans in this situation.
We're hoping that my wife be well enough to come home in a day or two. Thanks for the kind words.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I got recruited almost right out of college. We were about 15 people then, 450 now. Same 2 guys running it for 40 years. People tend to stick around, for obvious reasons. You put in a good effort, they notice it, and they have your back when you need it. Not typical, I guess.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)and that guy that lost his marbles. It was good that the CEO had a heart.
What I meant really was that even if you work for an American company in the states, those right-to-work/fire you as an employee has the law on their side. I know you know what I mean. I've worked for a few companies in the states that actually cared about their employees but that was a few decades ago. I don't see much of that anymore.
I hope your wife can go home soon.
Raine
(30,540 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,820 posts)The RNC should pay for it?
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)bullimiami
(13,090 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)(aka "add to the Trump slush fund of other people's money" .
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)I don't understand Stein's motives for the recount. She clearly didn't/doesn't like HRC- in fact, she thought that she was WORSE than Trump, so I don't know why she would be doing this to help HRC win (though the odds of a recount overturning the results of 11/08/16 are infinitesimal anyway). Neither she nor Johnson will win either, so what's the point? I know that she says that this is about "election integrity" (which I support BTW) but, frankly, unless there is some secret evidence of SUPER MASSIVE electoral fraud that comes out of this recount that would undoubtedly flip the election results, I don't understand the point of this. I'm really crushed that HRC lost and scared about the fact that Trump will be POTUS for the next 4 years (and hopefully ONLY the next 4 years) but I can't help but feel suspicious of Stein's motives here not being quite above board. Now Stein wants to jump in with Donald's unhinged allegations of fraud elsewhere? Not quite sure what to make of all this other than one more needless political spectacle to close out this very awful year when IMHO we should be devoting more time and energy towards gearing up to fight Trump and the GOP Congress tooth and nail for the next 2-4 years. Maybe this is just me sounding defeatist but if I and, more importantly, the Clinton Campaign thought that there would be a serious chance of overturning the EV results, I'd be all in favor of it. However, at this point, the evidence is scant that this "recount" will dramatically change anything. Maybe a few more votes for HRC will be found and/or some low-level malfeasance will be uncovered but I'm skeptical that things will change and the DNC/Clinton Campaign clearly felt that the results were accurate enough on Election Night to concede, so...........
Edit: I would love to be proven wrong.