Jill Stein has been raising money for a recount of several states, notably Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. If all three could be flipped to Hillary, the election results flip too. Interestingly, one of the initial reasons given for the recount was the possibility of voting machines being hacked. Michigan still uses paper ballots and thus is immune to Russian hackers. Hmm.
What would it take to flip the results? The margin in Michigan is 10,704 votes, a mere two tenths of a percent of the vote. It's a close margin. Not as close as Florida in 2000, but still very close for the number of votes cast. Let's say the campaign finds errors and fraud that erases that gap and puts Michigan in the Democrat column. Now Hillary has 248 electoral votes to Trump's 290. Moving on to Wisconsin, the margin is 27,257, about nine tenths of a percent of the vote. That's a pretty decent margin. Yes, close but that is a hard gap to bridge. In fact, if that gap were to be bridged, all faith in the election would be shattered. But let's say, through some miracle of missing ballots in Milwaukee, Hillary wins a squeaker in the recount. She now has 258 electoral votes to Trump's 280. Still lost. Very well, let's move on to Pennsylvania where the margin is 68,236 votes, a 1.1% margin in the votes cast. That is an unassailable margin. If that flips as well, there will be a civil war.
There is no way for Hillary to win without triggering massive unrest. The Hillary campaign knows this and has nonetheless signed on to Jill Stein's quixotic effort. With a change of the results being impossible, why bother? Because it helps to undermine the coming Trump Presidency. Much as the Florida fiasco of 2000 led to George W Bush implementing Democrat-lite policies and even keeping many Clinton appointees in his administration, this challenge plants the idea that Trump didn't really win. He lost the popular vote. There were irregularities in three states that would have handed the presidency to Hillary. Seeds of doubt planted in the interregnum may blossom into an opposition movement next year.
It is true of all leftists that the will of the voters only matters when they vote for the Democrat. If they vote for the other party, the voters were fooled, voted against their interests, or were misled by fake news. Such reversals of fortune on account of ill-informed voters is why so many politicians are expressing envy for Castro. Fidel didn't have to put up with stupid voters picking the wrong candidate.
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Richard Baehr on American Thinker posits that the recount is meant to take the electoral votes off the table when the Electoral College convenes. Trump would only have 260, not enough to win. Thus the Congress would have to decide. Sure, both he and Pence still get their positions but such would serve to delegitimize the election. It is an interesting theory but very unlikely. The recount deadlines presume sufficient time to count and finish prior to December 19.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/the_democrats_real_strategy_in_launching_recounts.html
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