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."
Sincere note to Gpv. Scott Walker:
\PLEASE make sure you have the check & that it cleared the bank BEFORE you spend one hour on this nonsense.
IF you bill them later-—they won’t pay it.
IF you hold the check—it might bounce.
Either way—MAKE SURE that you have funds before you turn in a single hour of work.
Wasn't it Chicago where they found a couple of thousand dimocrap votes in the boot of an old car....
I think it was for the second term of Bush two..(?)
Supposing that Trump announces that he is going to surrender on Michigan/Pennsylvania then this still has less than 1% odds of being anything to change the outcome. Nevertheless it has to be taken very very seriously.
Trump is ahead by 27,257 in Wisconsin.
No irregularities or specific issues have been reported this year.
In 2011 there was a situation where a large irregularity was reported. The margin was 7K, much less than 27K, and the recount resulted in a change of less than 5% on the margin.
http://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/122364728.html
Final recount numbers submitted to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board show Prosser with 7,006 more votes than Kloppenburg.
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Two days after the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she had not included about 14,300 votes from Brookfield, 76% of them for Prosser, in the initial tally she gave to the news media.
Challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg asked for the recount last week after final election tallies showed she lost to conservative incumbent David Prosser by 7,316 votes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_election,_2011
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/wisconsin
Donald Trump 1,409,467
Hillary Clinton 1,382,210
This what denial in the face of an overwhelming retribution looks like. Trump’s landslide shows that America wants nothing to do with the far left turn 8 years of democrat rule has brought us. This is all the Democrats doing using Stein as a front..
Can you imagine these pu$$ies leading our troops into battle?
“Retreat...we’re doomed!!”
Yeah, people are freaking out way too much. The recounts in Florida in 2000 were over about a 1500 vote difference, and even with the “discovered” votes Bush still maintained the lead.
[They count it in one night on election night (a few hours). Why do they need two weeks to recount it? Get this over with already]
Per the article, recount includes examining the ballots to determine intent. Remember Florida hanging chads?
Good grief. This is ridiculous. The left can’t handle defeat.
“$5 million or $7 million is less than pocket change to Soros. Like you fishing for a dime in your pocket.
Soros is happy to spend that to discredit and subvert the election system and public confidence in America. He’s trying to foment a shooting civil war here, he’ll spend much bigger money than that to try and achieve that.
They won’t. They’re like Herpes.
Busted! Jill Stein’s Election Recount Is Being Paid For By a Bot!
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=50879
Soros paid for it
Roger Stone on Twitter: “Jill Stein “recount funded by Soros https://t.co/Yzl7i4abep”;;
https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/802230392493404160
In Wisconsin they have to examine each ballot and determine intent of the voter before counting it in a recount. Does that sound familiar?
It does tie in the strange seemingly off-the-wall concerns being expressed before the election about Russian intervention and hackers. When I heard that I wondered "Where was that coming from?"
Well, now we know.
Mr. CapNJack posting history is full of his bed-wetting going back months.
Just a member of that useless army of posters that thankfully didn’t get his guy (Cruz) the nomination.
If you don’t like the discussion on recount threads why in the world would you read them?
So Watermelon Stein is going to find 27,000 extra votes for Hellary? Do they think every extra vote found is all going to that Witch?
So how many extra votes will Trump get in this so-called recount?
Just like the Bush team was aware that Dan Rather was forging documents. Pfft
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Really, you’re comparing bush’s team to Trump’s team?
Not sure what your link to KeelyAnne’s Twitter account was supposed to prove?
Pfft.
I just don't know if I can take another picture of some idiot staring at a hanging chad or ballot trying to divine if a dimple exists.
Rich people are just like you and me, they spend a dime unless they know something is going to come out of it
Soros is committing sedition against the U.S. Government. He should be arrested. He’s bribing easily purchased people to foment conflict, hoping it will explode into a civil war.
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