Posted on 12/05/2016 12:24:30 PM PST by roostercogburn
A LOT of Detroit’s ballots may not be able to be recounted LOL!
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/05/recount-unrecountable/95007392/
The state has the constitutional authority on how to count votes and select electors for the EC.
Stein's argument was voter fraud via foreign hacking and she admitted that her legal team has no evidence of that.
IMO There should not be a recount just based on lack of standing/lack of evidence. The Republicans allowed the whole thing to progress this far by not aggressively fighting stein in the beginning.
You can just about bet that the motor voter registration program has allowed thousands if not millions of illegals to vote.
Agree.
I do believe the 6th will stop this. There was no proof of any shenanigans in the election.
Goldsmith went rogue trying to take over the process. No ther reason than that. Especially in light of him proclaiming that the count will not stop unless ordered by him.
I agree - rather a recount, something else should be done to uncover the massive fraud that probably lies beneath the surface.
I would think the same argument made to the district court would be made to the appellate court. I haven't bothered to find the arguments made at the trial court.
The case, on its face, is ludicrous. So is the ruling by the district court judge, which amounts to "if a recount isn't undertaken in every election and ballot measure, then the voter's constitutional rights have been violated."
Stein can't win. She's lost by millions of votes.
This recount is pure foolishness and it’s a good idea to try to get it stopped. If a recount is to be called, it should be called by the candidate who stands a chance (however slim) of winning, namely Hillary. But for a candidate who has no chance of winning anything but just wants to satisfy her own curiosity it is an abuse of the election system.
According to the article the discrepancies are in heavily Democrat areas.
There is no Federal “recount right” under any voting rights for an individual.
The only way to rein in the judges is to impeach them. They make things up, if they have to, to get the outcome they want. It is not possible to regulate the judges with legislation.
Not yet. The loser at trial has a right of appeal. The appellate court must take the case.
Yep, and the Dems had planned on doing a lot more cheating there.
Without Detroit their chances have gone from slim to none.
Thanks #14. State prerogatives govern in this case and Federal Courts are loath to step in and diddle with state election procedures in the absence of a clear violation of a Federal issue.
No Federal issue here. Just a sour-grapes supposition with no supporting evidence.
Congress can remove individual issues from the purview of the lower courts. They should do so. Force all such issues to go straight to SCOTUS.
It makes no sense to "fight" something that involves a candidate pursuing a perfectly legal course of action. Sometimes you have to wait until steps are taken or decisions go against you before you even have the legal standing to fight anything.
Let them scream. We can use their words to nullify their opposition to ballot integrity measures.
Two points: The media will say what they will but the Democrats will still not be in power and the country will be in such an improved state that no one will care what the media says; second if it goes to USSC Trump will demand Ginsberg recuse herself since she said she would move to Canada if Trump won. Saying “I take it back” won’t cut it.
Just because there is no evidence of vote discrepancies (a negative) does not mean action should not be taken to root out vote discrepancies (action on something that does not exist as if it does, proving a negative.)
Shear insanity a judge should throw out in the pretrial behind the doors meeting.
That will require an amendment to the Constitution to inject powers over the states with regard how they run their elections. The corruption is so inter-state organized now unlike possible 200 years ago, maybe it's time.
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