FEC says Jill Stein, who raised $7.3 mil to recount the 2016 election, owes them more than $66,000

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The Green Party's Jill Stein raised millions of dollars to recount the 2016 US presidential election, promising her donors — mostly liberals grappling with Donald Trump's shock win in the Electoral College — radical transparency and direct democracy.

But instead of verifying the outcome of the last presidential election, a majority of the $7.3 million that Stein raised for counting votes has, per a review of of her campaign's financial disclosures, been spent on other things.

It went to salaries for her core campaign staff, who were kept on for another three years, lawyers for Stein's personal legal defense in the US Senate's Russia investigation, and tens of thousands of dollars in fines levied by the Federal Election Commission.

The Stein campaign is now out of money, still owing tens of thousands of dollars to the FEC for failing to disclose how it was spending donations, mandatory reports sometimes filed over a year late. That means an oft-repeated campaign promise will not be fulfilled: a ranked-choice vote for donors on how to spend any money they gave that wasn't going toward the original cause.

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The Stein campaign also filed lawsuits. In Wisconsin, it sued for the right to review the source code the state's voting machines used, dropping at least $750,000 on attorneys. It ultimately prevailed, but not before running out of the money that the campaign previously said it needed to pay experts to interpet the code.

A district judge called Stein's litigation 'daft,' 'ill-considered,' and 'pointless'

In Pennsylvania, the Stein campaign spent $2.25 million in leftover recount money in an effort to get the commonwealth to commit to a paper trail in future elections — something its Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, had already ordered counties to do. That litigation, which resulted in a settlement agreement where the Wolf administration restated its existing efforts to replace voting machines, extended through 2020, with attorneys for Stein arguing that the new machines were not good enough. That argument, rejected in April, resulted in a verbal lashing from US District Judge Paul S. Diamond, who called the litigation "daft," "ill-considered," and "pointless," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

"Dr. Stein publicly announced that she seeks to promote election integrity," the judge continued. But really, he argued, "she seeks to promote only herself," adding that there was one other benefit from her litigation "that would not otherwise have been conferred: the payment of $150,000 to Stein's lawyers." The lawsuits in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were pricey. The litigation far exceeded the total legal expenses of $1.75 million that the Stein campaign said it would need when raising donations for the 2016 recount; ongoing litigation was said to cost to more than $150,000.

Back in 2016, the campaign also asserted that, rather than new lawsuits, post-recount, "Any state filing fees that are refunded will be allocated to the organizations designated by the donors." Those 2016-era refunds, from Michigan and Wisconsin, totalled more than $2.1 million.