Judge denies request for hand recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results

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5. I have to disagree with this

It is not "them" trying to use the court to shut down the democratic process.
It is the law. It is the Stein campaign that is using the courts to shut down the written law.

The Wisconsin recount law clearly states that the use of machines vs hand counts is up to each individual county clerk. Jill Stein tried to get a Judge to change the law based on "hacking" the problem was that she had no proof, she had speculation.
So what she wanted is the Judge (a Dane County Judge) to rewrite the law based on speculation.
That is not the job of the judicial branch, nor should it ever be.

The right way to change a law (a very clearly written law) is to go through the legislative branch.

And as an aside, the Judge pushed the clerks to to hand counts, she just couldn't order them to do so. Out of 72 counties, only 19 have said they are using the machines, so it will almost be a statewide hand count.