Green Party will switch to federal court for Penn. recount bid
Source: CBS News
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A Green Party-backed campaign changed its strategy to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvanias Nov. 8 presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, and said late Saturday night that it will seek help in the federal courts, rather than the state courts. The announcement that it would seek an emergency federal court order on Monday for a recount came hours after it dropped a case in the state courts.
Make no mistake - the Stein campaign will continue to fight for a statewide recount in Pennsylvania, recount campaign lawyer Jonathan Abady said in a statement issued around 11:30 p.m. We are committed to this fight to protect the civil and voting rights of all Americans.
In the statement, Abady said barriers to a recount in Pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court system is ill-equipped to address the problem.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has framed the campaign as an effort to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated. Steins lawyers, however, had offered no evidence of hacking in Pennsylvanias election, and the state Republican Party and Trump had asked the court to dismiss the state court case.
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JonLP24
(29,322 posts)K&R
Land Shark
(6,346 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Jeff Zucker is nothing but a siphon hose of deceit and deception, his "organization" gave more free air time and a close second and third was Faux Noise and then MSNBC and the Morning Joe gab fest to herr dumpster serial predator
The NYT (the so called liberal newspaper) has had more right wingers in the editorial pages, look no further than when one of there reporters which helped "out" a CIA operative by name of Valerie Plame, ever since then I have not given them much credence
If they were so concerned as to why a person on a federal ballot is asking for some answers, they should have joined in this recount------------------it's really simple
I get better information from Harper's Magazine. The Progressive, The Nation, American Prospect, and even from Rolling Stone, Democracy Now, Free Speech TV
brooklynite
(94,333 posts)Land Shark
(6,346 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Green Party candidate Jill Stein late Saturday vowed to bring her fight for a recount of votes cast in Pennsylvania in the U.S. presidential election to federal court, after a state judge ordered her campaign to post a $1 million bond.
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The judges outrageous demand that voters pay such an exorbitant figure is a shameful, unacceptable barrier to democratic participation, Stein said in a statement. "No voter in America should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to know if her or his vote was counted."
Stein said she planned to announce "the next step" in the recount effort on Monday at a previously scheduled news conference at Trump Tower in New York City.
She said recounts already under way in some Pennsylvania counties would continue. The state's election commission had approved recounts in 75 precincts where voters requested one, but refused to allow a full forensic audit of voting machines.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-recount-pennsylvania-idUSKBN13T00L
cstanleytech
(26,230 posts)that nothing criminally was done by anyone with the machines that might have influenced the election unless of course something criminally was done and they dont want it exposed.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I don't know how PA conducts its early voting but provisional voting requires paper ballots that need to be manually counted and that takes time. The easiest way to assure a GOP victory would be to simply ignore them. Ditto early votes if they're mailed in. When could they have counted all those ballots anyway? In the hours between 8pm and midnight on Nov. 8? California is still counting early and provisional ballots and it's been nearly a month!
Cheating (R) is afoot.
BigBadDem
(29 posts)date.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)BigBadDem
(29 posts)?
if not, what are you referring to?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I meant the official rules for Pa. and for Texas clearly states a person can NOT absentee (or early vote in Tx.) vote if they are not absent from their home address on voting day.
former9thward
(31,936 posts)If you say you expect to be absent then thats it.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I considered it in order to avoid lines, but in the end went to the polling place.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Rodney, North Hampton County
IMPORTANT: I was canvassing by phone before the elections. One person I called reported something I thought was very suspicious that might be of help as you move forward: She was from Philadelphia but living in Brooklyn. She said that she received her absentee ballot AFTER the deadline for sending it in, but was told she should send it in anyway it would count. MORE IMPORTANTLY, the person she spoke with when she called for information said there was a HUGE problem with absentee ballots that were mailed late and received by the voter after the return date. I mentioned this when I went to a Democratic field office later in the day and said they should notify someone. You should definitely look at this if you have time. Philly has the population to easily offset the rest of the state if large numbers of absentee ballots arrived after the date for mailing and so weren't returned or perhaps not counted.
http://www.jill2016.com/rodney_north_hampton_county
wordpix
(18,652 posts)glad to see it. We need to help each other. Go, Jill!
Trust me, if she sees this through, she will up her stock price.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Thank you Jill for this good work!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)and compare to $1 million. Should be that simple. However, RWnut decisions and legislation are not evidence-and-science-based, so hopefully the fed judge is.