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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, the Pennsylvania recount effort isnt 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 its 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 Steins recount effort.
Stein had raised millions of dollars, but with so much of that having been eaten up already by Wisconsins sudden price hike and the attorney fees required to fight fierce court battles against all three non-cooperating states, it turns out she didnt have the $1 million cash on hand today to cover Pennsylvanias sudden ransom demand. Thus she was forced to withdraw her court petition for a Pennsylvania recount. That doesnt mean its over, of course, only that there is now another legal hurdle to fight. Two of them, in fact.
In fact her next step is to fight for precinct by precinct recounts in Pennsylvania until the vote totals have been sufficiently corrected and revised to drop Donald Trumps lead in the state from the current 0.8% mark to the 0.5% mark, which in turn would trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania state law. Stein is also now suing Pennsylvania in federal court. So how many mainstream major media outlets are correctly reporting that the PA recount effort is now continuing with a new strategy? There dont appear to be any.
If you look at the headlines coming from the major media outlets this evening, theyre uniformly misleading in that theyre attempting to create the appearance that Steins recount effort is finished. Green Party drops court case seeking statewide recount of Pennsylvanias Nov. 8 presidential election, states the Associated Press in a tweet which paint the phony picture that there are no next steps. BuzzFeed News falsely claims that Stein put in a request to discontinue the recount request, misleadingly suggesting that she pulled the plug on her own effort. And this ABC News affiliate flatly insisted in its original headline that the challenge to the recount is over before ultimately changing the headline entirely to focus on Steins next move.
SOURCE: http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/no-pennsylvania-recount-effort-isnt-yes-mainstream-media-lying/359/
Hekate
(90,648 posts)I can't comment on any of these reports because they make me so nauseated. All I can do is KnR and add for the prayers I can't even make.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Stein said she planned to announce "the next step" in the recount effort on Monday at a previously scheduled news conference at Trump Tower in New York City.
She said recounts already under way in some Pennsylvania counties would continue. The state's election commission had approved recounts in 75 precincts where voters requested one, but refused to allow a full forensic audit of voting machines.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-recount-pennsylvania-idUSKBN13T00L
oberliner
(58,724 posts)This is not a source.
Amishman
(5,555 posts)I know he is popular on here right now because he is saying what people want to hear, but he comes across to me as twisting facts into a conspiracy theory to try and get attention.