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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichigan Recount Pt. 2- MI's GOP Efforts To Stop Stein's Recount Exposes State Voter Suppression
High Time To Call It Out For What It Is: Voter Suppression - Plain and Simple:
Keeping focus can be difficult to do in the current political recount teapot in Michigan. Currently, there is a recount of all votes in the of Michigan taken on November 8, on behalf of Green Party Candidate Jill Stein's Campaign.
Yet, thousands of votes might remain unrecounted in the State's Largest City of Detroit, and Michigan Republicans are actively trying to stop the recount by lame-duck enacting a retroactive bill.
Cause and Effect. The words that can have many meanings.
In the case of Michigan's Presidential Recount of the 2016 Election, the Cause was a question of how Democratic Party Hillary Clinton lost Michigan by the smallest margin in the State's Presidential Election history, 10,704 votes.
The Effect is a recount request by Green Party Candidate Jill Stein which is actively taken place by a U.S. District Court Judge Order on December 5.
"A federal judge has ordered Michigan election officials to begin a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday," according to The Detroit News.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a ruling just after midnight Monday in favor of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who sought to let election officials bypass a two-business-day waiting period that would have delayed start of the recount until Wednesday morning."
Another Effect would be finding out by the recount request upwards of thousands of ballots might not be available for recounting in the State's Largest Democratic-leaning City of Detroit. This effect should be worrying for all desiring fair and just elections in Michigan.
Read More: http://www.reachoutjobsearch.com/2016/12/michigans-gop-efforts-to-stop-steins.html
Yet, thousands of votes might remain unrecounted in the State's Largest City of Detroit, and Michigan Republicans are actively trying to stop the recount by lame-duck enacting a retroactive bill.
Cause and Effect. The words that can have many meanings.
In the case of Michigan's Presidential Recount of the 2016 Election, the Cause was a question of how Democratic Party Hillary Clinton lost Michigan by the smallest margin in the State's Presidential Election history, 10,704 votes.
The Effect is a recount request by Green Party Candidate Jill Stein which is actively taken place by a U.S. District Court Judge Order on December 5.
"A federal judge has ordered Michigan election officials to begin a massive hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast in the presidential election at noon Monday," according to The Detroit News.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued a ruling just after midnight Monday in favor of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who sought to let election officials bypass a two-business-day waiting period that would have delayed start of the recount until Wednesday morning."
Another Effect would be finding out by the recount request upwards of thousands of ballots might not be available for recounting in the State's Largest Democratic-leaning City of Detroit. This effect should be worrying for all desiring fair and just elections in Michigan.
Read More: http://www.reachoutjobsearch.com/2016/12/michigans-gop-efforts-to-stop-steins.html
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Michigan Recount Pt. 2- MI's GOP Efforts To Stop Stein's Recount Exposes State Voter Suppression (Original Post)
LovingA2andMI
Dec 2016
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Farmgirl1961
(1,564 posts)1. And now what happens?????
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)2. By definition
voter suppression means keeping someone from voting.
While the Michigan law is pretty dumb (why wouldn't unreconciled precincts be the first to be counted??), not recounting already counted votes is the same as preventing someone from voting.
bigmonkey
(1,798 posts)3. Where's the "this is all a waste of time and money" crowd?
They should chime in about how we have to put this all behind us, it shouldn't have been close enough to steal, etc.