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In reply to the discussion: Judge denies request for hand recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results [View all]Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)53. They are doing hand recounts because it is faster.
Booting up the machines again and reprogramming them, will take an unnecessarily longer amount of time then just counting the hand receipts. Stein's argument should have been geared towards respecting the December 13 deadline for the recount. Not for catching fraud.
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Judge denies request for hand recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results [View all]
riversedge
Nov 2016
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I'm betting any counties that do count by hand will find evidence of padding or other for Trump.
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#34
They found padding, not hacking. Trump had to return 5K votes. The innocent "mistakes"
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#42
There were at least 3 counties and mistakes at each favored Trump. Coincidence? Doubt it.
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#43
Could you pull out quotes from your links that state 2 errors favored Clinton? I skimmed them
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#46
That doesn't in any way match the 5K votes padded on to Trump's total & only removed AFTER
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#49
The "written law" is in conflict with Federal Law of the land which says voter intent supersedes ...
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2016
#9
What is "it" - did "it" ever happen in Wisconsin? If you mean to say electronic fraud, then
Kashkakat v.2.0
Nov 2016
#18
Ok thx - so nothing about absentee ballot weirdness or exit polls being much further off in certain
Kashkakat v.2.0
Nov 2016
#58
I understand Hillary's lawyer is a lawyer, but the problem is a little more serious than
yurbud
Nov 2016
#16
I just read that they upped the price from 1.1 million. Stein griped but handed it over.
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#39