Jill Stein adopts county level strategy to force automatic statewide Pennsylvania recount (NOT OVER)

[flamingdem]

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

The political world was a buzz on Saturday evening with headlines from major news outlet screaming that Jill Stein’s recount effort in Pennsylvania was “over” or “finished” after she withdrew her statewide recount request. But as it turns out, those headlines aren’t even close to being true. The real story, buried in the fine print of some of these mainstream media articles, is that Stein is switching to an entirely new strategy in Pennsylvania which is aimed at forcing a statewide recount to happen.

Now that voluntary vote total revisions from various Pennsylvania precincts and counties have reduced Donald Trump’s lead to around just 0.8% from its original 1.2%, Jill Stein is changing her strategy. Pennsylvania state law requires an automatic statewide recount if the winning margin is 0.5% or less. And so Stein is now pursuing county level recounts in the hope that the corrected numbers will indeed shrink Trump’s lead below the threshold.

How do we know this? We have to read closely. For instance, buried in the seventh paragraph of an eight paragraph article in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper whose headline falsely claims “Stein drops recount effort,” we find the actual story: “Stein’s campaign intends to continue its county-by-county recount effort in Pennsylvania, said attorney Larry Otter. That requires efforts in individual precincts – a process that requires three voters to petition their local election boards.”

[KittyWampus]

1. Thank you. It's sadly familiar how the media ignores what's going on and also mislead

with inaccurate headlines.

[flamingdem]

2. This was blatant to the extent that it appeared everywhere instantly

Of course maybe it's just a Russian troll thing. They are good.

[KatyBR]

3. Here is the correct link to your story

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

[flamingdem]

4. Oh thanks!

oops

[KewlKat]

5. thanks for helping to clarify this to those who've not been able to keep up.

[jonno99]

6. The problem with having optimism about this "new strategy" is that the reason the percentage

dropped from 1.2 to 0.8% was not due to recounts - but due to the fact that they finally included the provisional ballots in the total vote counts.

[KatyBR]

8. Philadelphia is voluntarily do a hand recount now.

But what concerns me about Stein pulling out is that the request (albeit outrageous) was for a $1 million BOND, which is not $1 million. Usually you have to pay a small % of the face value of the bond. But it could be that the Stein campaign could not pay it for the 100 petitioners.

[JudyM]

7. Whew! I know it's a long shot, but I'm glad it's still alive. Looking fwd to her Monday presser at

TRump Tower to ask him why he's having his people fight off the recount efforts.

[flamingdem]

10. That's going to be a circus but the media is not covering the efforts

except when they want to throw cold water on it..

[Mc Mike]

9. Thanks for the information, f d. rec, Nt

[Hekate]

11. KnR