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Brother Buzz

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10. In California, ANY legally registered voter can demand and receive a recount for any (or no) reason.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #7)

Mon May 29, 2017, 10:45 AM

May 2017

All they need to do is pony up the money for the recount in advance. The Registrar of Voters accepts cash, cashier's checks and money orders.

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The DNC must set up an automatic recount of any wins by R's from now on [View all] Maraya1969 May 2017 OP

recounts don't make sense without paper ballots... Sancho May 2017 #1

OK. I'm going to edit the OP to include what you said. Maraya1969 May 2017 #2

K & R Duppers May 2017 #3

Some random person on twitter who doesn't understand that elections are related mythology May 2017 #4

Remember the boxes that were damaged? Besides I'm sure whoever had their fingers in Maraya1969 May 2017 #11

Trump's win was within a polling error if that error was systematic Gravitycollapse May 2017 #17

Can anyone point me to a major election where a recount made a difference? n2doc May 2017 #5

Al Franken - Norm Coleman, Minnesota 2008 csziggy May 2017 #9

Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it can't Maraya1969 May 2017 #12

I want a unicorn, and I want it now! Demsrule86 May 2017 #6

Meanwhile while too many Dems say, 'This can't be done" and "This is wrong" and "Think Maraya1969 May 2017 #19

Elections are run by states...there is no method to do this... . you might as well ask for a unicorn Demsrule86 May 2017 #31

How would the DNC do that, exactly? MineralMan May 2017 #7

+1 onenote May 2017 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Maraya1969 May 2017 #13

In California, ANY legally registered voter can demand and receive a recount for any (or no) reason. Brother Buzz May 2017 #10

I don't know. But I know just letting it slide with no one trying to set up a nation wide system is Maraya1969 May 2017 #14

Let's put our money on winning elections convincingly...close election are easy to screw with... Demsrule86 May 2017 #32

I think a recount of the 2016 Presidential election would find it was not stolen. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #15

Does that explain the Senate loss and the House loss? Along with the mathematician's Maraya1969 May 2017 #16

Those are unlikelihoods not anomalies. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #18

You must have missed the mathematical conclusion that was printed on Twitter. Granted Maraya1969 May 2017 #20

The math teachers claim is useless without seeing the data and their analysis. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #22

Well take my, years ago, several advanced statistics studies. This was an anomoly Maraya1969 May 2017 #23

You haven't seen the math so you couldn't possibly know that right now. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #26

And the fact that I and others have been saying the same thing since the election. I didn't Maraya1969 May 2017 #25

Someone posted here that on the day of the election, before we were hacked, FL was in Maraya1969 May 2017 #21

Trump had a 45% chance of winning Florida (via. 538) Gravitycollapse May 2017 #24

OK let's take your number. Since when does someone lose 5% points in the same day? Maraya1969 May 2017 #27

The 45% prediction was of him winning, not his vote share. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #29

These are all just clues to be taken together. And did 538 use early voting for its calculations? Maraya1969 May 2017 #28

Early voting is a weak predictor of electoral outcome. Gravitycollapse May 2017 #30

The house is gerrymandered...I see signs it is slipping...but it's going to take a wave election. Demsrule86 May 2017 #33

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