Posted on 11/29/2016 7:32:25 PM PST by drewh
They got that there magic software, by cracky.
To win the presidency requires only getting half the electoral college votes cast, not necessarily the full 270.
See Article II Section 1 of the US Constitution.
This is Hillary trying to prove Trumps victory is illegitimate using Stein as a tool.
Oh, that's priceless. But then they will have a larger stake in denying the request for a recount.
Does MI have a Republican legislature? If so, this law should be changed pronto to make it like WI where the challenger pays up front.
This is fake news. Ain’t gonna happen!
No it’s a very solid moral stance.
There’s nothing stronger or more inspiring.
300,000 ballots to count?
A statewide recount?
I thought Michigan had almost 6 million votes cast.
I don’t understand.
The Cemocrats NVER learn-—
After this debacle over something that cannot change who is the next President—Look for many states to completely CHANGE their recount or Challenges in each of their states.
Demands for pre payments will rise dramatically & method of recount will not be in the hands of the person demanding such.
SOOO- Dems lose ground AGAIN!!!
This situation with Stein is embarrassing.
She should be ashamed.”””
I lived in a county that had a Green Party candidate for about everything possible. SHE was a drunk & openly smoked POT in restaurants that had NO SMOKING policies. No one dared stop her.
How did she wind up?
Did she die? Is she still around?
People like this destroy themselves. No one has respect for them.
They think they are powerful, and yet they can’t even keep them self under control.
My concern is/was, what is considered an “appointed elector”.
So it does appear that since electors are appointed by a states vote, a state that cannot certify simply cannot appoint electors and indeed the total is reduced to the new number.
Appointment of Electors: Well before the General Election in Presidential Election years, Elector-candidates are nominated (for these do not become actual “Electors” unless and until the presidential/vice-presidential ticket to whom they are “pledged” actually wins the Popular Vote in their jurisdiction through the results of voting in that General Election) by either Political Parties or by the listing of slates of such potential Electors for an Independent (or “Third Party”) candidate on a petition for ballot access in a State (or the District of Columbia). It is commonest practice for such Elector-candidates (who, at least in the case of the Major Parties, almost always are Party insiders for whom being so nominated is an honor bestowed because of their loyal service to the Party) to be nominated for the position of Presidential Elector at the same time as, or at least in coordination with, the State (or D.C.)’s final determination of those who are to be at-large delegates to the Party’s National Convention being held in the Summer of the Presidential Election year (though this is not always the case): thus, most such Elector-candidates are actually chosen even before the Parties have formally nominated their presidential/vice-presidential ticket contesting the General Election at said National Convention. Elector-candidates, however, can only be constitutionally “appointed” (that is, actually become) Electors as a result of the voting in that General Election.
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