Challenging the election results
Here's presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in October of this year regarding whether or not he will accept the result of the election scheduled to take place in November.
Now the election has taken place and the Green Party nominee, Jill Stein is exercising her legal right to challenge the election results in three of the 50 states. What does Donald Trump have to say about her doing what he said he reserved the right to do? In a statement released on Saturday, November 26th, Trump said this is merely Jill Stein trying to "...fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount. All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes," Trump said. He went on to add, "this is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing."
Let's look at those margins again (numbers are from Wednesday of this week and may have changed slightly)
He is leading in Michigan by 11,613 votes, which is 0.24% of the total ballots cast.
He is leading in Pennsylvania by 68,236 votes, which is 1.14% of the total ballots cast.
He is leading in Wisconsin by 27,257 votes, which is 0.92% of the total ballots cast.
Those margins may be far larger than the 537 vote victory awarded to George W. Bush in Florida in 2000 but they are small enough to be called into question.
Especially in light of this factoid. That is a link to a Tweet from someone who shows that vote totals in one Wisconsin county (in three different wards) for the candidates were higher than the number of votes cast, and when revised totals were released, apparently all of the "excess" votes had been taken from Donald Trump's tally. Is this proof someone stuffed the ballot box? Of course not. Is it evidence that further investigation is warranted? You bet it is.
Meanwhile add this to the list of Trump flip-flops since the election. The tally is going to be enormous.
Now the election has taken place and the Green Party nominee, Jill Stein is exercising her legal right to challenge the election results in three of the 50 states. What does Donald Trump have to say about her doing what he said he reserved the right to do? In a statement released on Saturday, November 26th, Trump said this is merely Jill Stein trying to "...fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount. All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes," Trump said. He went on to add, "this is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing."
Let's look at those margins again (numbers are from Wednesday of this week and may have changed slightly)
He is leading in Michigan by 11,613 votes, which is 0.24% of the total ballots cast.
He is leading in Pennsylvania by 68,236 votes, which is 1.14% of the total ballots cast.
He is leading in Wisconsin by 27,257 votes, which is 0.92% of the total ballots cast.
Those margins may be far larger than the 537 vote victory awarded to George W. Bush in Florida in 2000 but they are small enough to be called into question.
Especially in light of this factoid. That is a link to a Tweet from someone who shows that vote totals in one Wisconsin county (in three different wards) for the candidates were higher than the number of votes cast, and when revised totals were released, apparently all of the "excess" votes had been taken from Donald Trump's tally. Is this proof someone stuffed the ballot box? Of course not. Is it evidence that further investigation is warranted? You bet it is.
Meanwhile add this to the list of Trump flip-flops since the election. The tally is going to be enormous.
posted by me at 1:51 PM
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