Posted on 12/07/2016 2:47:55 PM PST by bobsunshine
Updated at 2 pm
Jill Stein’s Pennsylvania recount attempt continues to sputter, with a Wednesday ruling from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas denying her request to have the city’s electronic voting machines examined.
The request to forensically study the machines was considered by her lawyers to be one of the best ways to determine the validity of the votes, and they had previously said they thought they had a chance in court. The city’s Election Board had already refused to let Stein’s computer experts examine the machines.
Judge Abbe F. Fletman wrote in her decision that Stein basically missed her chance to examine the machines. Stein and any other candidate legally had the opportunity to monitor tests of the machines administered by the Election Board the before, during and after the election, she wrote, and could have even made independent tests during the election process provided the testing didn’t interfere with the tabulation of votes. She noted Stein and her associates did not make clear whether they took advantage of these opportunities, and wrote that state law doesn’t allow for more independent testing as requested by Stein.
“This is especially true when, as in this case, there is absolutely no evidence of any voting irregularities,” Fletman wrote. “To the contrary, the elected and appointed officials charged with safeguarding our voting system uniformly maintain its integrity.”
This court action was slightly different from the recount that already took place in Philadelphia. Over the weekend, the city recounted electronic votes and paper ballots from 75 of Philadelphia’s 1600-plus voting districts. Hillary Clinton ended up with five more votes from paper ballots that were not detected by an optical scanning system, and City Commissioner Al Schmidt said the recount turned up no evidence of possible hacking or fraud.
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This woman is completely out of control. I cannot believe how someone who barely got any votes can turn this election into scrambled eggs. She should not be allowed to do this.
This broad is a true psychopath.
She needs professional help.
Yes, it is entirely possible that a gremlin, elf, or lepricon sneaked a 5” floppy into the machines entirely unnoticed.
Stein should be sent to an institution for the criminally insane.
Maybe he didn't want any evidence of fraud by the dems to come to light?
Floppy disk?!?!?!?!?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
best election ever
These are all frivolous lawsuits designed to tie up the courts, including appeals designed to interfere with the electoral college votes.
Stein and the Demonicrats are trying derail the Constitutional process. If they can get it up SCOTUS the Demonicrats think they can overturn the election by SCOTUS fiat.
The RINOcrat-controlled Congress will do nothing.
Funny, I've been calling her a cow, too. She is such a dingbat.
Exactly.....
I wouldn’t be surprised if all the recounts are halted ...the dems go to sleep and then once the Justice Department is purged of all its OdumbiAltLeftRegressives, Trump comes after the democrats involved in this multistate voter fraud, WITH A BLITZKRIEG OF ARRESTS.....and maybe with help from mo and mo emails from wikileaks....those arrest will include Hillary and Odumbi.
Of course the judge won’t....they’ll find overvotes for Hillary in districts with no voting populations or voter numbers not matching who came in as recorded by the polling books, ...just like Michigan’s Wayne county and Detroit. If that Fraud gets found out, it will be all over for future fraud padding in Philly and Pa goes solid red forever!
Rofl, nice.
Its great to see them freaking out over this supposed election fraud. It was they, before the election, that were mocking Trump for daring to speculate that there could be any election fraud whatsoever. Looks like they get to eat crow.
If she lost the recount, it would only prove to her how skillful the Russian hackers are.
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