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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."
And you know Mich and Penn probably grant the request as well. All i know is they better not confine themselves to the counties the Dems question. Let them check the validity in all counties in the questioned states. When they protest that they totally tip their hands.
This is a treasonous attempt to destroy the electoral system of the United States, most probably financed and directed by George Soros.
It cannot be allowed to stand.
Yes.
Roger Stone on Twitter: “Jill Stein “recount funded by Soros
https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/802230392493404160
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.
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Doesn’t surprise me one bit!
“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 not just a rich person....he’s well beyond that. There were a lot of very rich people that gave money to Hillary over the years, and they didn’t get squat for it. Soros knows this won’t work, he’s trying to foment conflict, just like he did with the protests. Now he’s trying this...he doesn’t care if this succeeds, just as long as more conflict comes out of it. He’ll spend a lot more than this piddling amount. And it won’t even dent his wealth in the slightest.
As Soros, Clinton, and obama give their directions to Stein, the media will not ask why the hell would this person want a recount when she only got 1% of the vote and has no chance of ever winning the state , let alone the election.
Yes. Arrest soros now !
Roger Stone on Twitter: “Jill Stein “recount funded by Soros
https://mobile.twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/802230392493404160
and the purpose of this recount is what???????????????
Weird how the media has no asked this question. NOT.
Big mistake by Soros and Clintoon.
I wonder how much money Jill Stein got to do this.
“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.”
Hanging chads redux. Looks like they’ll need to hire some mind readers.
Trump better get some really good lawyers.
This is why antonin is no longer with us.
current law lets any candidate ask for a recount.
obvious oversight now, as the democrats once again use a law against the spirit of the law and collude with several third parties.
Trump better get some really good lawyers.
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Seriously, you think Trump doesn’t already have great lawyers? Did you hear that Mr. Trump...you need to get some good lawyers! Whew, good thing you let President Elect Trump know he needed some lawyers. Wouldn’t want this to get by him.
You people are just too funny. :-D
Until Trump says “I do,” they will continue to try anything and everything to keep him out of office. The One Worlders want him stopped. The Secret Service better be on their toes every second of every day after he is sworn in because I will bet you that the One Worlders will attempt to kill him. They do not want anyone that is not one of their selections in office because it stops what they want. Trump is not one of theirs. He is anti-One World government and he is a threat to them. I hope the Secret Service put on extra people to protect our new president, because those thugs, led by Soros will do anything to get rid of him. May the Lord above look after President Trump.
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Trump should file for recounts in NH and MN.
“In a recount, ballots must be examined to determine voter intent before being counted.”
Wasn’t it Stalin who observed he would rather be the one who counts the votes?
And, who is going to divine ‘voter intent’, pray tell...?
To compare with Florida’s recount.
Bush beat Gore by 1,784 votes before the recount a very much smaller margin with much more ballots casted in that state vs Wisconsin. Gore trimmed Bush’s lead to 537 a little over 1,200 difference.
It’s not going to happen for Stein/Hillary without massive cheating.
I have asked that very same question many, many, many times...
I don't think he is. He just looks it. He looks like a specimen with its eyes open, awaiting post mortem.
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