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In reply to the discussion: Why do I hate Greens? Here's why [View all]pnwmom
(110,313 posts)In fact, she knew from the very beginning that she wouldn't be successful. Why? Because she knew that in PA the Dems didn't have enough votes for an automatic recount, and by the time she filed she had missed the deadline. The only option was to apply to a court for a special ruling. And the judge said in the ruling that she had waited too long to file.
Without a recount in PA, her pretend effort to overturn the results was doomed before it had even started. The Michigan recount was doomed, too, because of a special state law that didn't allow any districts with discrepancies between the sign-in sheets and the tabulated votes to be counted. So the districts you'd most think SHOULD be recounted were the very ones that couldn't be recounted. BY LAW.
So why did she do it? Because she made SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS for her party, that's why. Since she couldn't get the PA recount approved, she had several million dollars left over after the recounts, which she was allowed to retain for her purposes, just as she had told the donors would happen.
All of this is shown in her FEC filings. She had relatively small amounts in her accounts till the recount was announced, and then suddenly she made millions. And she had millions left over after the recounts were done. What a racket.