Stein dropping bid to recount PA

[RandySF]

Breaking on my phone.

[pangaia]

1. Here............

Jill Stein has ended her statewide ballot recount effort in Pennsylvania. Lawrence M. Otter, a lawyer for the former Green Party presidential candidate, withdrew the lawsuit filed with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania early Saturday eve
ning.

"Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means," the filing states. "They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court."

Stein elaborated on Twitter, asking: "How odd is it that we must jump through bureaucratic hoops and raise millions of dollars so we can trust our election results?"

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/03/504285672/jill-stein-campaign-drops-her-recount-effort-in-pennsylvania

[krawhitham]

2. Claims she did not have enough $$$$$$$

[Land Shark]

10. Recounts are onerous and very expensive, on purpose (my experience in election law)

That said the key word is "statewide" effort is dropped. You need signatures in every precinct and it is pretty much impossible to track those folks down for any amount of money.

Efforts in certain counties are proceeding however.

[Tiggeroshii]

12. Wisconsin alone was $4m.

This doesn't include the money used to fight the lawsuit against it, or the one in Michigan. Nor does it include the Michigan recount cost (which is expected to be more than $5m). People giving her crap for raising the fundraising goal had no clue that recounts generally are far more expensive than the initial costs. Nor does it seem Stein was expecting such high increases herself.

Regardless, if the Michigan recount continues, she will likely be in a ton of debt. Not the other way around.

[putitinD]

3. Philadelphia is doing its own recount, We'll see what happens there.

[EL34x4]

13. Philly is recounting 4% of their precincts.

Not the whole city.

[Tiggeroshii]

17. Do you know how many precincts/ votes that is?

Palmer report said 70 precincts. Know if that's accurate?

[MFM008]

4. Dammit

Crap.

[bpositive]

5. Not sure why

Hillary does not chip in- we need to get to the bottom of this!

[Cha]

6. PA is doing their own recount.

[Quixote1818]

7. I would not worry about this. If Michigan or Wisconsin flip then more money would be raised

and there would be a huge amount of momentum to recount PA.

[EL34x4]

15. Wisconsin isn't going to flip.

After 2 days of recounts, Trump is up 3 votes.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/wisconsin-recount-totals-update-day-2-3-1-returns-two-latest-info-news-live-michigan/

[pnwmom]

8. This was so predictable. She didn't ask for the required 30,000 volunteers

till ONE DAY BEFORE the deadlines.

This was a week after she started collecting money.

[KatyBR]

9. Dropped lawsuit but not the precinct recount -judge required $ 1mill bondto hear the lawsuit

Despite this headline in npr, She's still going forward with recounts under the first state provision -- within precincts that could get the affidavits in on time, but the judge in the lawsuit she filed for a full-state state-wide hand recount required a $1mill bond of the 100 people who had sued for the recount. Her campaign seems to be saying these people can't afford it (maybe Green Party was not allowed to pay?) So the lawsuit requesting a state-wide recount had to be dropped.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/03/504285672/jill-stein-campaign-drops-her-recount-effort-in-pennsylvania

"In court documents filed shortly before 5 p.m., an attorney for the Stein campaign wrote, "Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means. They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court."

In the meantime, the state is within .02 of having an automatic recount. Philly is recounting by hand their ballots voluntarily.

[Demit]

11. Phila uses direct-recording voting machines. The only ballots that can be

counted by hand are absentee and provisional ballots.

[pnwmom]

16. She waited till one day before the deadlines to post that she needed them.

That wasn't a serious effort. She had already been asking for money for a week.

[flamingdem]

14. NOT TRUE - according to the Palmer Report here:

http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/no-pennsylvania-recount-effort-isnt-yes-mainstream-media-lying/359/

No, the Pennsylvania recount effort isn’t “over.” Yes, the mainstream media is lying to you.

Since the recount effort in three states got underway last week, the major media have afforded it virtually no coverage. Even as the Wisconsin recount enters its third day and numerous inconsistencies are being documented, the mainstream media has remained silent. After the Michigan elections board approved the recount go-ahead, nary a peep. Now the major media outlets are finally talking about the Pennsylvania recount effort, but only to report that it’s now “over” – which is not the case.

What actually happened today is that in a desperate last ditch attempt at preventing the recount, the State of Pennsylvania suddenly invented a million dollar bond that third party candidate Jill Stein would have needed to immediately pay for. This came after the state of Wisconsin had surreptitiously increased its own recount price tag from $1.1 million to $3.8 million, for the rather transparent purpose of trying to bankrupt Stein’s recount effort.

Stein had raised millions of dollars, but with so much of that having been eaten up already by Wisconsin’s sudden price hike and the attorney fees required to fight fierce court battles against all three non-cooperating states, it turns out she didn’t have the $1 million cash on hand today to cover Pennsylvania’s sudden ransom demand. Thus she was forced to withdraw her court petition for a Pennsylvania recount. That doesn’t mean it’s over, of course, only that there is now another legal hurdle to fight.

[Omaha Steve]

18. She is not!!! (here is the correct info)