Campaign: Stein has raised enough for Wisconsin recount

[Geee]

The Hill:

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has raised enough money for a recount in Wisconsin, her campaign said early Thursday.

 

Donations totaled at least $2.7 million in less than one day, according to a fundraising page on her web site.

 

"Congratulations on meeting the recount costs for Wisconsin. Raising money to pay for the first round so quickly is a miraculous feat and a tribute to the power of grassroots organizing," her campaign said.

 

"Now that we have nearly completed funding Wisconsin's recount (which is due on Friday), we can begin to tackle the funding for Michigan's recount (due Monday) and Pennsylvania's recount (due Wednesday)."

 

Stein said Wednesday that many Americans are wondering if the election results were reliable after a "divisive and painful" race and reported hacks into voter and party databases and individual email accounts.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

Editorial: Jill Stein’s Wisconsin vanity project

3:56 p.m. CST November 29, 2016

 

Maybe ‘democracy’ will be served by Jill Stein’s quixotic moralizing. More likely, Jill Stein and the Green Party will be served.

Jill Stein may actually believe that demanding a recount of presidential tallies in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania will ensure that “democracy” is served.

More likely, she believes the Green Party will be served by her audacious PR stunt.

 

Here are the stubborn facts:

 

■ Trump beat Clinton in the three states by more than 103,000 votes, a narrow margin, to be sure, but one that will be all but impossible to erase in a recount. Trump had an edge of 22,177 votes in Wisconsin; 10,704 in Michigan and 70,795 in Pennsylvania, according to the latest unofficial tallies. Clinton would need to overturn the results in all three states to flip Trump’s Electoral College victory. No candidate has ever picked up so many votes in a recount. It’s foolish to even contemplate it.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2016/11/29/editorial-jill-steins-wisconsin-vanity-project/94608716/

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WISCONSIN HELD HOSTAGE – Recount Day 1

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye December 1, 2016 at 3:00pm

Costing $3.5 million

WISCONSIN HELD HOSTAGE – Recount Day 1

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye - 12/1/2016 at 3:00pm

Today begins the recount in Wisconsin. Failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed for a recount suggesting that by doing so, Americans will have greater faith in the election process.

Stein had to fork over $3.5 million for the recount in Wisconsin alone.

[Geee]

@Draggingtree Can I just say - people on both sides here are stinkin' mad. Even the liberal Milwaukee Journal is having a fit.

[SrWoodchuck]

@Geee! @Draggingtree!

 

FEC Complaint Filed Against Jill Stein’s Recount

http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/fec-complaint-filed-against-jill-steins-recount

 

 

Well, look what we have here — the Republican Party of Wisconsin has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against Jill Stein. The complaint alleges that in her recount effort, the failed Green Party presidential candidate serves as nothing more than a front for Hillary Clinton’s campaign — something Stein laughably denies.

 

LawNewz reported:

 

This was all set in motion over the weekend beginning with Clinton campaign’s attorney, Mark Elias, writing a lengthy blog post that explained how the Clinton campaign received hundreds of calls to “investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton.” He detailed the exhaustive measures the campaign undertook to investigate these allegations and said they ultimately concluded they “had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.”

 

Once Stein announced her intent to challenge the results, Elias said the campaign planned to monitor the recount and would participate in order to “ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.”

 

On Tuesday, the Clinton campaign made good on its promise and filed a motion to intervene as a formal party in the Stein recount lawsuit.

 

That background essentially provides the underlying basis for the FEC complaint that was filed by the GOP on Wednesday.

 

The GOP argues Stein’s actions are essentially a coordinated $3.5 million expenditure on behalf of the Clinton campaign, in excess of the $2,000 amount allowed by federal campaign donations laws.

 

From the complaint:

 

It is concerning that the Stein campaign would position itself to front and fund a recount attempt that only serves the interest of a desperate and defeated Clinton campaign.

 

Further, it is incredibly disturbing that given these asymmetrical interests, the Clinton campaign would readily begin organizing around the effort in order to capitalize on the chaos created by this attempt to undermine the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections process.

 

Stein’s effort makes little sense given the small amount of votes cast for her in the election, and when you add that together with the coordination between her campaign and the Clinton campaign, it “raises a severe specter of illegal coordination,” in the complaint’s words.

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BREAKING: Michigan drops the HAMMER on Stein recount…

http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/breaking-michigan-drops-hammer-stein-recount

 

 

Jill Stein’s recount effort started strong — and went south quickly.

 

It seemed like the recount would at least succeed in bringing attention to the Green Party. Her recount campaign raised more money than her presidential campaign ($6.3 million raised for a recount; $3.5 million raised for her 2016 presidential run). Perhaps she learned a few lessons from The Donald in getting free publicity from the media and using it to her advantage.

 

Regardless, the Green Party was none too happy with the stunt, and they quickly distanced themselves. All mentions (and photos) of Stein have been removed from the homepage of the Green Party’s website.

 

So the party ain’t pleased — even though all the leftover funds from the recount are supposedly to go into their pockets. Pocketing the leftover funds seems to have been the goal the entire time, given the impossibility of the recount in changing the results of the election. Pennsylvania’s State Department said Stein missed the deadline for a recount by a week, making it mathematically impossible for her to flip the necessarily amount of electoral votes to change the results of the election.

 

Not only that, now Stein’s facing yet another roadblock in Michigan that could end her recount efforts there as well. As Politico reported:

 

Michigan’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit to stop a recount of the presidential election results requested by Green Party nominee Jill Stein, his office announced on Friday.

 

“Michigan voters rejected Stein’s candidacy by massive margins but her refusal to accept that state-verified result poses an expensive and risky threat to hard-working taxpayers and abuses the intent of Michigan law,” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, said. “We have asked the court to end the recount which Stein is pursuing in violation of Michigan laws that protect the integrity of our elections. It is inexcusable for Stein to put Michigan voters at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process.”

 

Schuette’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of the state, asks the Michigan Board of Canvassers to reject Stein’s recount request on the grounds that Stein has acknowledged she has no evidence that fraud or widespread errors were committed.