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Green Party drops election recount bid in Pennsylvania
The Times of Israel ^ | 12/3/16 | Agencies

Posted on 12/03/2016 6:30:23 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON, United States — Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein dropped her efforts Saturday to request a vote recount in Pennsylvania, one of three battleground states won by Donald Trump where she is challenging the results.

“Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means. They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the court,” read a filing submitted in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

On Twitter, she later added: “#Recount2016 is so expensive because of elected leaders who have refused to invest in a 21st-century voting system.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016recount; 2016swingstates; drjillstein; drops; election; green; keywordtrolls; oldnews; pa2016; party; pennsylvania; recount; seebreakingnews
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1 posted on 12/03/2016 6:30:23 PM PST by Nachum
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UPDATE: Stein to make "major announcement" following challenge withdraw

HARRISBURG, Pa — (WHTM) Jill Stein’s attorney said the Green Party candidate will make a “major announcement” Monday morning outside of Trump Tower involving the election challenge in Pennsylvania.

UPDATE:

Jill Stein said she will make an announcement at 10 a.m. Monday regarding the election challenge in Pennsylvania following a filing Saturday evening that she could not post the $1 million bond needed.

Stein released this statement:

“This is yet another sign that Pennsylvania’s antiquated election law is stacked against voters. By demanding a $1 million bond from voters yesterday, the court made clear it has no interest in giving a fair hearing to these voters’ legitimate concerns over the accuracy, security and fairness of an election tainted by suspicion. No voter in America should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to know if her or his vote was counted. Still, the recount continues and we will fight to ensure the civil and voting rights of all citizens are protected. We look forward to announcing our next step on Monday and we will pursue every available remedy to ensure Pennsylvanians can trust what happened in this election.”


2 posted on 12/03/2016 6:33:14 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Nachum
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein dropped her efforts Saturday to request a vote recount in Pennsylvania,

Ya, but the question is "What is Hitlery going to do?"
3 posted on 12/03/2016 6:33:37 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Yo-Yo

What horsesh**


4 posted on 12/03/2016 6:35:53 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Nachum

“Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means. They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the court,”

Yeah, but YOU could Jill. Wasn’t that was why you asked for funds?


5 posted on 12/03/2016 6:36:16 PM PST by Oatka (nd 14)
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To: Nachum

libtard with zero chance of winning, bitches she cant pay the recount fee, blames state for it costing so much.

PA and all other states need to update their vote recount laws NOW so this kind of circus freak show can’t happen in the first place.


6 posted on 12/03/2016 6:38:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Yo-Yo

This bitch has absolutely NO STANDING and this should END, pronto

It is ridiculous to let a 1%er try to hold up and subvert the process. A list of donor$ should be forced on her to reveal, and the press should be questioning the motives of this POS and hitLIAR . . .


7 posted on 12/03/2016 6:39:09 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: headstamp 2

“”What is Hitlery going to do?”

Strangle Bill?


8 posted on 12/03/2016 6:39:22 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Nachum

If Republicans contested an election there would be fury from the left. This Green party to help Hillary has crickets. The BS factor is 100%.


9 posted on 12/03/2016 6:40:23 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Oatka

She took their money once again. Jill took more money during the two weeks after the election than in her entire campaign.

The Clinton’s took gobs of cash from the left. They have nothing to show for it.

I do not expect that to go quietly into the night. 100’s of millions gone like a fart in the wind.

Trump is one that can handle that knowledge and they know it.


10 posted on 12/03/2016 6:41:21 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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I think they make it expensive for precisely this reason: so dim-witted losers who received less than 1% of the vote can’t ask for a recount just for the purpose of tying up the state election board. It stops petty people who have trivial reasons to recount.

I believe she did this for the money. She has $7 million. Why can’t she pay $1 million? Could it be she never intended to spend any of the money she scammed out of these losers?


11 posted on 12/03/2016 6:41:31 PM PST by JohnEBoy
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To: Nachum
What is with her pimping her internal medicine degree on her Twitter account . . . ? “Dr. Jill Stein?”


12 posted on 12/03/2016 6:45:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Yo-Yo

In best howard Cosell voice its ovah its all ovah


13 posted on 12/03/2016 6:45:57 PM PST by slapshot (Change target acquisition to Hillarita and all socialists, not fellow conservatives)
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To: eyedigress

Nope. They will blame Trump for everything that is wrong in their lives. Hey, it was popular to blame Bush for whatever was wrong in one’s life, I guess that they will do it too for Trump.


14 posted on 12/03/2016 6:46:54 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Cheerio

She is now having some group going for a Florida recount.


15 posted on 12/03/2016 6:48:39 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Nachum

Serves you right to suffer, serves you right to be alone. Keep pounding these bastards into the dirt. Again, to repeat myself, liberalism is a mental disorder.


16 posted on 12/03/2016 6:50:42 PM PST by quantumman
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Why could we not have legislation that would issue mandated rules that must be followed for anyone wishing to vote for a Federal candidate - Senator, Representative, Vice President and President? Paper ballots, picture ID, master voter list, no absentee ballots except military, no early voting, etc. Seems like something the House and Senate could put together with approval by the president.

Let states do whatever they want for local and state candidates.


17 posted on 12/03/2016 6:51:59 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Nachum

There should be punishment for those who call for, and get recounts, where it then has no effect on the outcome.


18 posted on 12/03/2016 6:55:34 PM PST by JPJones (George Washington's Tariffs were Patriotic. Build a Wall and Build a Wall of tariffs.)
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To: Nachum

I’ll donate to a “Put Stein in an Asylum” fund. Even the bats think she is super batshit crazy and they should know.


19 posted on 12/03/2016 6:56:50 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nachum

That cuts the other two states recount off at the knees. Why now, go though a useless and wasteful exercise when there is no earthly way it would make a difference?

Can they just cancel it or must they go through with it?


20 posted on 12/03/2016 7:03:19 PM PST by Oatka
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