On today’s BradCast: The Green Party’s Jill Stein has filed for a ‘recount’ in the third of three states, and continues to fight against barriers erected to prevent citizen oversight of the 2016 Presidential Election results. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
Late today, Stein filed for a “recount” in the state of Michigan, after computer security and voting systems experts continue their pleas for hand-counts of paper ballots that have, to date, only been tallied by computers. MI is the third state, following Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where counts of the 2016 Presidential election race are being sought. The campaign included a check for nearly $1 million dollars with their filing.
In Wisconsin, where the GOP state legislature recently changed the law to jack up the fees for “recounts” and to allow such tallies to be done by computers instead of by hand, a state judge, citing that new statute, denied a suit by Stein (and joined by the Hillary Clinton campaign) seeking statewide hand-counts, despite the judge’s own belief they should be carried out that way. The Green Party candidate, however, vows to press on, despite the cost of the counts — partial, hand-counted or machine-counted — now rising to some $9.5 million. That, apparently, is now the obscene price that citizens have to pay to even have a fighting chance of knowing who actually won or lost a Presidential Election in just three states.
We have much more today on all of the above today, and callers ring in with questions and thoughts on the “recounts”.
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report and an update on the climate-fueled wildfires in Tennessee, where the death toll has now tragically been increased yet again…
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Has anybody seen this? Some yahoo has filed a complaint with the FEC.
PDF Document
This is actually in there: 🙂
I shouldn’t laugh. Is the FEC still broken?
My review and opinion about today’s show:
So…
Last year there was an act passed, that made a recount somewhat more prohibitive. Before that was passed, this years recount would have cost:
$18,000
Initially, Jill Stein had to come up with $150,000,000 for this year’s count. Now a board has told her it will actually be around:
$350,000,000
Dammit! Does it seem to anybody else, as if somebody doesn’t want us to know how we actually voted?
JILL STEIN’S FRAUDULENT RECOUNT AND ELECTION CONTEST EFFORTS IN PENNSYLVANIA ARE EXPOSED AND DEFEATED BY CONTROLLING CASE LAW PRECEDENTS: part 1.
http://janderresearch.blogspot.com/2016/12/jill-steins-fraudulent-recount-and.html?m=1
… Larry Bergan said…
A couple too many zeroes slipped in there, Larry 🙂
Understandable, given the insanity of the actual numbers… $1500000 and $3500000
But I think that the WI prices will be jacked up to $150 million and then $350 million in time for the midterms.
Oh CRAP!
And it’s BradBlog, so I’m a snapshot in time and there’s nothing I can do about it.
I’ve also been zapkitty-ed! Again. 🙁
Thanks, anyway. Best to be told when you have BO. 🙂
Hey, I’ve seen congressmen mix up billions and trillions before.
Am I supposed to feel bad. 😀
Well, it was either Donald Rumsfeld, two congressmen or CBS who couldn’t figure between trillions and billions.
Proof.
I guess that let’s election officials in Wisconsin off for putting millions in place of thousands, huh? 😀
Oh no !
Fake news on Brad Blog.
Tsk Tsk Larry Bergan …
(couldn’t resist) … 🙂
I’ll leave journalism to the journalists from now on, but I’ll retain the right to my opinion Dredd.
Besides, I Mea Culpa’d. 🙂