The Green Party dropped its court challenge in Pennsylvania state court to get a recount across the state. Now they are going to federal court. As a reason, Stein and her people blame the law in Pennsylvania. They say that they will seek an emergency federal court order on Monday for a recount because barriers to a recount in Pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court system is ill-equipped to address the problem.
Want to hear the pervasive barriers to a recount in PA? According to state law, a recount can be obtained in any precinct so long as three voters from that precinct sign a request for a recount. No reason need be given. No bond need be posted. The state pays the cost. The only requirement is that the request has to be filed within five days after the votes are certified. That means that the request was due about twelve days after election day. It's not very hard to meet this "barrier". There is, in fact, no barrier at all. You just need to be timely, something that Stein and the Greens were not.
Stein's problem is that once you let that five day period go by, the only way to get a recount is to go into state court with proof of problems with the vote count and to ask a court to order that recount. Stein has no proof of any error with the vote count. She knew that she and her party would lose in state court on Monday. Instead of going away like a reasonable person would, she just decided to try something else.
There is no way that any federal judge should order a recount absent any evidence of wrongdoing or error. It is just not enough to say that the results were different from what the pre-election polls showed, and that is all she's got.
This is a waste of time and money and it ought to end now.
Want to hear the pervasive barriers to a recount in PA? According to state law, a recount can be obtained in any precinct so long as three voters from that precinct sign a request for a recount. No reason need be given. No bond need be posted. The state pays the cost. The only requirement is that the request has to be filed within five days after the votes are certified. That means that the request was due about twelve days after election day. It's not very hard to meet this "barrier". There is, in fact, no barrier at all. You just need to be timely, something that Stein and the Greens were not.
Stein's problem is that once you let that five day period go by, the only way to get a recount is to go into state court with proof of problems with the vote count and to ask a court to order that recount. Stein has no proof of any error with the vote count. She knew that she and her party would lose in state court on Monday. Instead of going away like a reasonable person would, she just decided to try something else.
There is no way that any federal judge should order a recount absent any evidence of wrongdoing or error. It is just not enough to say that the results were different from what the pre-election polls showed, and that is all she's got.
This is a waste of time and money and it ought to end now.
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