The people in Philadelphia are upset that they cat get at those 1000 Hillary votes they hid in the dog's house
Posted on 11/28/2016 5:01:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Updated 5:30 p.m. — As of close of business on Monday, the Philadelphia Board of Elections had received petitions from 74 (out of more than 1,600) divisions.
Updated 3:45 p.m. — Jill Stein officially filed a lawsuit in a bid to force all of Pennsylvania’s votes to be recounted.
Jill Stein’s effort to recount presidential votes in three swing states already appears to be sputtering in Philadelphia.
While Stein, a former presidential candidate, has raised millions of dollars and filed for a recount in Wisconsin, the process in Pennsylvania is much more complicated. Candidates cannot file for a recount themselves. Instead, they either have to go to court and attempt to prove widespread voter fraud (there’s no evidence of that at this point) or organize a voter-initiated recount effort.
Stein’s team is going for the latter, asking for thousands of volunteers across Pennsylvania to mobilize. For a voting division — also known as a precinct — to be recounted, three voters from that division must sign and file an affidavit.
As of noon Monday, the Philadelphia city Board of Elections had received petitions for 35 of the 1,686 voting divisions in Philadelphia, according to City Commissioner Al Schmidt. By 5:30 p.m., that number was 74— about 4 percent of the the city’s total divisions.
Stein needed more than 5,000 people in Philadelphia alone to sign petitions to file for a recount and would have had to mobilize about 30,000 people statewide to get a full recount going in Pennsylvania. She contends that though her campaign is targeting recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, it is not coordinating with the campaign of Hillary Clinton, who lost all three of those states to President-elect Donald Trump. The Green Party candidate has so far raised nearly $7 million to spearhead the recount.
Wanda Murren, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, said in a statement Monday afternoon that the state is “working to gather information from the 67 counties regarding their progress in certifying election returns.” She said some counties have already certified their elections, therefore closing the five-day window to petition at the county level for a recount.
The Department of State is aware of petitions for a recount being filed in Berks, Bucks, Centre, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, but isn’t aware of how many were filed in each county.
Schmidt noted the county Board of Elections is required to audit 2 percent of voting machines following the election anyway, according to the Pennsylvania elections code. That means after each election is wrapped up, officials randomly audit voting machines to ensure the number of votes cast matches the number of electronic results in the central tabulation system.
For today, the county Board of Elections is in frequent contact with the Pennsylvania Department of State, which is expected to release a guidance to county officials today with instructions on how to move forward in recounting divisions where affidavits were filed. Schmidt said it remains a busy time for the county. Schmidt said that in the weeks after the election, the process of counting provisional ballots and verifying results continues.
The deadline for voters to file for a recount is the end of the day today.
Meanwhile, officials in Allegheny County have said they will delay certifying their election results as activists are filing petitions seeking a recount.
This story was updated to include a statement from the Department of State.
> Our side is doing nothing to challenge any of this. It's so frustrating we are watching them trying to steal the election and not doing anything
I suppose it meant the request for the recount was not going good....
Drudge has up, recount deadline is over in Pa.
So, this doesn’t matter unless it’s something different.
Not good for Doc Jill. She is sputtering, so don’t stand close;)
This is not a recount. It is a contested election in a couple of counties.
When I found out about the need for a court oder in PA, I predicted that the whole recount thing would be essentially over by this Wednesday!!!! Without PA, the result of the election cannot be changed!
I think that it will be easy for Trump to shut down the effort in MI, too! And WI promises a fast recount—they blocked the demand for the “hand recount”, etc.
Jill Stein gets to take the money and run—for what purpose, I don’t know. But I doubt that she will be running for President on the Green ticket ever again!!!!
Stein is going for the latter..cha ching.
The Democrats are like an STD that won’t go away (and no I don’t have one).
There is no recount going on. Will never get to one either.
Agreed. This guy keeps posting the same thing over and over on every thread related to the recount issue and it is getting a little old, IMHO.
Must be a spam bot.
Stein was on Kennedy tonight babbling like a lunatic. I seriously don’t know how anyone could vote for this idiot or take her seriously...
Now I'm on pins and needles again until December 19th when the electors vote
I won't relax until I see the electors vote
What I really want to know is whether or not Stein can force a recount in Pennsylvania with the help of a fanatical leftist judge. The “deadline has passed!” stories don’t answer that question.
Oh no they are not.Calm down.
During the original election eve counting, nobody knows what the result is, so people are mostly performing their civic duties and are counting the votes as best they can.
Once we get into recount territory, people know what the target is, and then the shenanigans begin. It's one thing to guess how many manufactured votes are needed on election night; it's quite another thing to know EXACTLY how many manufactured votes are needed for a recount.
-PJ
Concise analyses. I don’t disagree. I have a liberal friends. One said this was all about “hillary running in 2020” I am actually a nice guy and I don’t have a lot of friends so I said “ Really?” instead of saying “ you stupid SOB— You think that criminal bitch will run again? She will be eating soft cereal in a rest home in 2020.!! “ The Democrats are headless. They have nothing left— NOBODY!! We have destroyed communism in America!! They are cornered and destroyed!!
There cannot be a recount going on. Stein was too late for that. She had to appeal to a court for a contested election. Has there been a court hearing? Did she even file. I don’t know what all this reference to a recount is but it is not legally permisible at this point. She could only CONTEST the election as ILLEGAL. Did she do that? On what basis?
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