Posted on 11/25/2016 4:32:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced Friday that it would hold a statewide recount of the presidential vote. The move was in response to petitions from two candidates, the Green Party's Jill Stein and independent Rocky Roque De La Fuente.
Federal law requires that all recounts be finished 35 days after the election, which is Dec. 13. One or both of the candidates will be required to pay for the recount.
"We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice," said Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Mike Haas in a statement.
"We plan to hold a teleconference meeting for county clerks next week and anticipate the recount will begin late in the week after the Stein campaign has paid the recount fee, which we are still calculating."
Haas added that the process is very detail-oriented and he is concerned that some counties will be challenged to finish on time. In a recount, ballots must be examined to determine voter intent before being counted.
Stein has been leading the effort to force general election recounts in certain swing states. Her effort continues to gain steam and money.
On Wednesday she announced she would demand recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Michigan is still too close to call.
To cover the cost of the recounts, Stein launched a fundraising campaign, which has raised more than $5 million in less than three days.
Stein's fundraiser website explicitly says the campaign is not an effort to help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but to "ensure the integrity of our elections." Clinton has not commented on the efforts.
The deadline to file for a recount in Pennsylvania is Monday and Michigan's is Wednesday.
Before the announcement was made, Haas called a potential recount "uncharted territory," according to Laurel White with Wisconsin Public Radio. White reported:
"State law allows any candidate on the ballot to request a recount, but if the margin is more than 0.25 percent, the candidate must pay for its cost. "Haas said the recount would cost at least $500,000. "The commission is reviewing state law to determine when that money would be due.
" 'There's a little bit of ambiguity in the statutes,' Haas said. 'In one place, it states that the fee must be paid at the time the petition is filed; another statute indicates once the petition is filed, that's when our agency calculates an estimate.'
"Once a recount order is issued by the commission, clerks across the state have 13 days to complete it, Haas said."
Stein initially set a fundraising goal of $2.5 million. As donations started pouring in, that goal jumped to $4.5 million, as New York Magazine's Yashar Ali pointed out on Twitter.
By Friday, the goal had jumped again, to $7 million. The campaign says that will go to cover filing fees, attorney fees and other associated costs.
Donations are still rolling in, but as Stein's fundraising website states, money doesn't necessarily mean the recounts are assured: "We cannot guarantee a recount will happen in any of these states we are targeting. We can only pledge we will demand recounts in those states."
If the recounts don't happen, what will become of all that money? Stein's website says any "surplus will also go toward election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform." It did not specify what those efforts would be.
As NPR's Camila Domonoske told the Newscast unit, "Some security and election experts have publicly called for paper ballots to be checked in Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan, to make sure that the computers that counted those ballots weren't hacked." But, she says, "There's no evidence that the electronic machines were hacked or the election was compromised."
If the Dems involved in the recount are not watched hawk-like it might be done.
Al Franken stole the election from norm Coleman via recount and flipped more than 1000 votes over.
Likely just to scam suckers out of their money.
It doesn’t matter to her that this isn’t going to amount to squat.
She paid off her campaign debts with a nice profit, and the lefties will see her as some hero for 2020 , when she will likely run again.
I hope you're right. It's not like they ever get away with anything.
from what you write it sounds like if it has not made it to a federal court by Dec 13 then it’s still a state matter, the state can choose to certify or choose not to.
no it makes no sense at all, but if she feels the integrity of the election , then why not choose NH too.
Did Stein accuse voter fraud in WI?
Wisconsin Democrats are a degenerate mob. They took over the capitol building, Democrat legislators left the state thus preventing quorum, the repeated “John Doe” investigations, recall Gov. Walker. Wisconsin Democrats are aholes that will try ANYTHING to get their way. They need to be destroyed.
Wisconsin Election Recount Manual http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/publication/65/recount_manual_11_2016_pdf_17034.pdf
A Beatle's song and a good cigar.
“Then why leave New Hampshire out?”
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Not only New Hampshire, but also Maine, Virginia, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and God knows where else.
Trump won CD 2 here in Maine, but lost the statewide vote by 2.7%.
There is concern trolling and there’s expressing legitimate concern - two different things.
Concern trolling is when a troll posts their daily concerns about whether Trump is too flawed as a candidate or that his campaign is in disarray, or that age us misgiving to say something stupid or that he’s not a real conservative.
The concern troll’s objective is to raise doubts and try to undermine support, but pretend that he’s a supporter just asking out of concern.
Being genuinely concerned that Soros is going to steal the election by bogus recounts, or turning delegates is not trolling, and it doesn’t make you. Pussy or a bed wetter.
Frankly, I’ll be relieved when Trump gets sworn in January 20th and I hope he has a kick-ass security team backing up a kick-ass SS team - because I’m ‘concerned’ that he has so many enemies and I wouldn’t put anything past any of them.
Does that make me a bed wetter?
No wonder the MFERS took their time to call it!!! They were fixing the dead votes for the BITCH!!!! I HATE THEM!!!! Soros needs to go!!
Why don't you just go somewhere else if the posts here offend you?
Then he needs to be a target.
Speaking of, does anyone sell range targets with his ugly mug on them?
Bingo. Instead of calling each other names or anything else, this is the million dollar question that I think we should be working on.
Does anyone really believe Stein wants a recount to “ensure the integrity of elections”? WHAT BS!
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