{"id":25200,"date":"2016-12-04T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25200"},"modified":"2016-12-04T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:09:32","slug":"recounted-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/recounted-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Recounted Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m afraid there’s some terrible news.  Many of us were clinging to the all too slim hope that the recount effort, undertaken by Jill Stein might flip all three states and spare America the horrors of a Republican Reich, under Resident (NOT President) Drumpfenfarten and Vice-Puke Pence.  Kiss that hope goodbye.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1204recount\"Green Party candidate Jill Stein is withdrawing her request for a recount in Pennsylvania.<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a statewide recount of Pennsylvania\u2019s Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The decision came Saturday, two days before a court hearing in the case. Lawyers for the Green Party-backed voters who filed the case say they can\u2019t afford the $1 million bond ordered by the court by Monday at 5 p.m. However, Green Party-backed efforts to analyze election software in scattered precincts are continuing.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The idea that the Green Party can\u2019t put up the bond seems astounding, considering that Stein\u2019s recount fundraising brought in far more than initially requested.<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> However, what the Green Party claimed<\/strong> was needed went steadily up as money came in… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Since the Green Party has cancelled the recount, I hope that they reimburse funds that so many donated for that specific purpose.  If Stein just puts the money in her war chest, her motives will surely be questioned, and rightly so.  I think she did this to be remembered as the person who tried to save America from Trump, because she now knows that if the people, who wasted their votes on giving her < 1%,  had voted to protect America from Trump, Clinton would have won.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m afraid there’s some terrible news.  Many of us were clinging to the all too slim hope that the recount effort, undertaken by Jill Stein might flip all three states and spare America the horrors of a Republican Reich, under Resident (NOT President) Drumpfenfarten and Vice-Puke Pence.  Kiss that hope goodbye. Green Party candidate Jill […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}