Green Party Drops Statewide Pennsylvania Recount

[JonLP24]

Source: CBS Pittsburgh


HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.

The Green Party’s filing came Saturday, saying it couldn’t afford the $1 million bond the court had set. A Commonwealth Court hearing had been scheduled in the case for Monday, and the $1 million bond was due later that day.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has spearheaded a recount effort in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states where Republican Donald Trump won narrowly over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump and the Pennsylvania GOP had asked the court to throw out the Green Party-backed request. The GOP argued there’s no evidence or even allegation that tampering with the state’s voting systems occurred and that the law doesn’t specifically allow a court-ordered recount.

Read more: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/12/03/green-party-drops-statewide-pennsylvania-recount/#.WENPLDBX8bI.twitter

[kebob]

1. K&R for Originality

[JonLP24]

9. Thanks

I don't have much luck in this forum

[wisteria]

2. So, this means the votes won't be counted?

And, the phony results stand?

[KatyBR]

7. Precinct recounts are still moving forward...

Just not the lawsuit where she was trying to get a court decision saying ALL percincts needed to be hand counted.

Apparently PA rules for a recount are super tough. 3 voters must file affidavits requesting recount per precinct. That's alot of affidavits. So she filed a lawsuit arguing the court needed to overrule that and request state-wide recounts.

[KewlKat]

3. i thought the lawsuit she filed for STATEWIDE was a longshot since their rules

are 3 voters per precincts had to file or something like that? It's a tougher state to get a "statewide" recount/audit done in.

I would think those 100 or so precincts that we did get the filing done on would move forward.

Anyone confirm that?


Edited to include -

Stein's campaign intends to continue its county-by-county recount effort in Pennsylvania, said attorney Larry Otter. That requires efforts in individual precincts - a process that requires three voters to petition their local election boards.

In the region, a recount in Philadelphia is already underway in 75 of the city’s more than 1,600 divisions. Judges in Bucks and Delaware counties will hear arguments this week on whether to grant recounts, Otter said.


SOURCE: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/20161204_Jill_Stein_campaign_drops_recount_effort_in_Pa_.html

[KatyBR]

5. Yes - the precinct recount will continue

....based on what this article is saying too

It's like the media are hungry for this headline -- trying to make it sound like she is pulling out entirely. She's not. The 100 people under whose name the lawsuit was filed just can't afford the $1 million bond required (by Monday) for the case to go forward. Crazy that anyone has to put up that kind of $ for justice to go forward!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/03/504285672/jill-stein-campaign-drops-her-recount-effort-in-pennsylvania

[KewlKat]

8. So to be clear...the lawsuit was NOT filed by Jill? but the voters? So the voters

would have to put up the money for the bond and NOT Jill? Or could Jill's recount trust fund have paid the million?

Does anyone know?

[brooklynite]

4. Stein making "major announcement" outside Trump Tower on MTA nday.

Joining his Cabinet?

[KatyBR]

6. Media headlines are distorting things - she dropped the lawsuit not the recount

Last edited Sat Dec 3, 2016, 11:39 PM - Edit history (1)

Here is the explanation from the Palmer Report

https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/no-pennsylvania-recount-effort-isnt-yes-mainstream-media-lying/359/

[Coyotl]

10. Green Party's Stein to pursue Pennsylvania recount petition in federal court

Sun Dec 4, 2016 | 1:40am EST

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-recount-pennsylvania-idUSKBN13T00L