Wisconsin Recount Filed 2016: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Heavy ^ | November 26, 2016 | Jessica McBride

[bobsunshine]

A recount of the 2016 presidential election results in battleground Wisconsin will start next week, adding new drama to an already contentious election filled with surprise twists.

The recount comes after a group of professors and lawyers raised concerns about the possibility of hacking. Donald Trump decried the recount as a “scam” in a statement on November 26.

The Wisconsin Election Commission “is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States,” Administrator Michael Haas announced in a written statement on November 25.

The recount was requested by the Green Party after its nominee, Jill Stein, raised more than $5.4 million in just over one day to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all states that were surprise upsets for Donald Trump and which he won by fairly small margins.

[thecodont]

She even called off the fireworks for her victory party.

There's that, and a couple of other things I saw. I am praying Trump is seven steps ahead of these people.

[FreedBird]

Democrats must all be afraid that the swamp is going to be drained by Trump the Swamp Fox.

[stinkerpot65]

Will corrupt urban precincts will find the votes for Hillary? What is to stop them?

[JennysCool]

Soros Losers.

Pass it on.

[JamesP81]

If WI, PA, and MI are unable to appoint electors due to this nonsense then the number of appointed electors is not 538. It would be 492. A majority in this scenario would be 247.

[stylin19a]

thanks.

[unixfox]

I would simply ask if there was an Ethernet or WiFi interface on the voting machines. If there is, then that data could easily be hacked. Hell, even an available USB port could be compromised.

Just saying.

[Brown Deer]

Hillary says, "That's HORRIFYING!"

[DarthVader]

No there is not as voting machines are designed to be tamper proof and secure. The only way they can be messed with is internal or factory tampering.

[djpg]

I don’t think that he has any official role. But who knows what he can do behind the scenes. I don’t believe his comments about the election being over. He lies too much to be believed.

[fluorescence]

I think their pre-election fake news campaign of fake polls and planted fairytales about the “impending Clinton victory” and “Russian hacking” was deliberate, to cast doubt on the Trump victory and give them a cover story for pursuing recounts until they win.

[OneVike]

Well, Trump should then demand a count in Nevada, New Mexico, Hew Hampshire, and Minnesota.

All those states are equally as close as Wisc, Mich, and Penn are.

Hell, why not recount the whole friggin country just to get them right.

[dsm69]

Trump would still have 260 without WI, MI or PA and still win the new electoral college majority (247) if the three states were unable to cast electoral college votes.

If that is the case and Trump would still be President, then this whole exercise of denying these states electors to vote is nothing more than mass mental masterbation by the Rats.

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Constitution's Article 2/Section 1 requires the winner to have "a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed." If that is interpreted (presumably by the House of Representatives) to mean a majority of the nominal 538, or 270, then any shortfall throws it, by that same A2S1, into the House, thus making the controversy moot, as Trump wins that easily.

You may recall that the Supreme Court's 2000 ruling in Gore v. Bush hinged on ensuring that Florida's contest/protest be decided by December 12 as a "safe harbor," to ensure that Florida's electoral votes be decided in time to be included in the final House count. Of course, the irony was that it was Gore's attorneys' appeals that unnecessarily prolonged the "contest," leaving inadequate time for the "protest," thereby triggering the USSC's ruling.

[Rembrandt]

“... will they reduce Hillary’s vote totals?”

AND, will the ink be dry on the Democrat votes?

[sargon]

Were any of these contests already certified?

Yes, all of them, if I'm not mistaken...

[Bon mots]

Hillary was appalled that anyone would challenge our election process.

Click to see video...

[Osage Orange]

Does anyone here...think the "Green Party" can raise this kind of money this fast?

No...they cannot.

It's funded by the Clinton machine.......

[fatima]

We had the Supreme Court back then.We don’t now.

[Brad from Tennessee]

This is the Al Gore 2000 playbook—force a recount that turns into a legal and political pissing contest that then has to go through the courts, resulting in a constitutional crisis. This created chaos all the way up to the inauguration.

From Wikipedia: Thousands of demonstrators attended the inaugural ceremonies in Washington, D.C., to protest the outcome and controversial circumstances of the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.[6][7] Four protesters were arrested and Bush's limousine was hit by a tennis ball and an egg thrown from the crowd during the inaugural parade.[1]