A vote recount will be conducted in Wisconsin, as a result of funds raised to contest the close popular vote lead of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, and efforts are being made for the same to occur in Michigan and Pennsylvania, enough, were it successful, to belatedly make Hillary Clinton President.
This is being done without the support of the Clinton camp, and simply the campaign of Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, and independent efforts to raise money for such a recount.
Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes, while Michigan has 16 electoral votes, and Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes. If all 46 went to Clinton, she would win 278 in the electoral college, with 270 the number required to win.
The margin of victory in the three states combined is only about 103,000 votes, showing the power of everyone’s vote. Wisconsin was only a margin of 22,00 votes, while Michigan was 10,000, and Pennsylvania about 70,000, and there are accusations of miscounts and hacking. Together, these are less than one percent of the entire vote in those three states.
Could the election results suddenly lead to Trump losing election to the Presidency? This is extremely unlikely, but there is the threat of electors in mid December exercising their right to do what they wish by secret ballot, and voting against Trump.
It would, however, be unprecedented to have the whole election results reversed, and imagine the fallout were that to happen, without Hillary Clinton’s active support!
Michigan deadline is next Wednesday; PA deadline had passed except for a court challenge and that deadline is Monday.
Don’t know what legal challenge strategy would be coming, but it better be a good one with a 70,000 vote differential….
Again, I dread a Trump administration, but the die is cast on this one.
Clinton campaign is going to back the recount effort. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/clinton-campaign-agrees-back-jill-stein-s-election-recount-effort-n688601
Trump’s claiming the recount is a scam. LOL! http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/politics/donald-trump-jill-stein-recount/index.html
Winning Progressive’s take on the recount. https://www.facebook.com/WinningProgressive/posts/1455160587827776
The recounts in WI, MI, and PA are more likely to help Trump than Clinton by distracting from the voter suppression, partisan FBI interference, Russian/Wikileak hacking, and failed media coverage that really rigged the election in favor of Trump’s GOP.
Article Winning Progressive linked to for that info: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/11/the-recounts-are-far-more-likely-to-help-trump-than-hurt-him
Winning Progressive nails what we have been talking about here!
Interesting proposal to the EC problem: http://bluevirginia.us/2016/11/pence-kaine-national-unity-government-electoral-college-proposal-crazy-just-might-work
The analogy I would use is that a pacifier given to a crying baby at least stops the baby from crying..for now.
Thanks for that Former Republican. A coalition government would be rather interesting.
Yes, a coalition government. And we can all gather around the campfire and sing “Kumbaya” while toasting marshmallows as Donald Trump is carted around like Hannibal Lecter with a mask and restraints …
Pretty much what the poster is saying is that the Electoral College chooses Pence for President and Kaine as Vice President.
Washington Monthly has a detailed account of why the recounts are being done.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/11/28/why-have-a-recount/
I second what the last paragraph said. If they don’t find anything fishy, it will calm voter concerns that aren’t legit. If they do find something fishy, it could help with making electoral reforms and more secure elections in the future. Â
.Just think what good a charity could do with $6.5 million raised….
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307787-annoyed-dems-dismiss-recount-as-waste-of-time
Jill Stein looks more every day like a villain, who should have bowed out of the race, as it likely would have led to a Hillary victory. So instead, she is doing this to improve her image, which was never good to begin with.
Again, the Green Party, as with Ralph Nader, has done great damage to their beliefs!
Joy Reid had some tweets on Saturday with a few uncomfortable things to say about Democrats.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/802608297555750912
Article Joy Reid is referring to in her Tweet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/dems-inaction-over-2m-vot_b_13199450.html?
A critique I agree with her on: Dems ignoring the little fights (local, state, congressional) in favor of the big one (POTUS).
The election was rigged in favor of Trump/the GOP through voter suppression tactics such as voter-ID laws, closing down hundreds of polling places in communities of color, cutbacks in early voting, and restrictions on voter registration efforts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-election-really-was-rigged/2016/11/29/c2ed58d8-b666-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.283c87880d0b
In addition to that, you had other things that influenced the voters: Russians supplying hacked emails to Wikileaks, Comeygate, “fake news” being spread through Facebook, and mainstream media playing both-sider-ism.