Stein dropping bid to recount PA

[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.