What is Jill Stein doing? Apparently she is looking out for a fair election. She may also be showing that the Green Party is all for fair elections and will most likely get more traction from this money spent here after the election than all the funds before the election. There's no chance of Jill Stein winning and most likely the results will stay the same, but she is pushing for and paying for a recount in three important states.
MILWAUKEE — Green Party presidential nominee
Jill Stein finished a distant fourth in the popular vote in the Nov. 8 election, but she is moving, after the fact, to play a role in the outcome.Stein's campaign says it has raised enough money to pay for a recount of the presidential vote in Wisconsin, one of a number of states that surprisingly helped Republican
Donald Trump win the election.According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a lawyer for Stein's campaign has already told the commission it will formally request a recount by Friday's deadline.
Moreover, the Stein campaign is continuing to raise money to pay for recounts in two other crucial states: Pennsylvania, where the deadline is Monday, and Michigan, where the deadline is Wednesday. Trump won all three states.
Stein can request the recounts by virtue of having been a candidate in the election, where she finished behind Trump, Democrat
Hillary Clinton and LibertarianGary Johnson in the popular vote.However, she must bear the costs which, in Wisconsin alone, could approach $1 million.
As of early Thursday evening, Stein's campaign said it had raised more than $4.2 million toward a goal of $4.5 million to fund the three recounts.
The campaign, which began the fundraising on Wednesday, insists the recounts are not intended to help Clinton, saying:
"Election integrity experts have independently identified Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as states where 'statistical anomalies' raised concerns. … These recounts are part of an election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how untrustworthy the U.S. election system is."
Clinton won the popular vote but Trump won comfortably, though not in a landslide, in the Electoral College.
It's not clear that recounts would change any results and, generally speaking, recounts are a long shot.
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Trump won Wisconsin by a margin of about 27,000 votes.
And in Michigan, the state’s election director said there is no evidence that Michigan’s presidential election results were manipulated or hacked. On Wednesday, the Michigan secretary of State's office said Trump won the state by 10,704 votes over Clinton, a total that is down from 13,107 before each county had certified its results. – usatoday.com
All three would have to swing / change in order for there to be any drastic alteration in the overall results.
The first map shows the results as of now and the second map shows if all three states did go to Clinton.
What is missing is if the voter fraud, tampering, irregularities, errors were in favor of one candidate or the other.
You can head over to http://www.270towin.com/ and play with the interactive map.
h/t: usatoday.com