Jill Stein wants U.S presidential Votes to be Recounted
Stein promised to use the money - which was initially set at $2million, but raised to $2.5million as donations poured in - to pay for recounts in the threestates.She cited the Green Party's successful 2004 demand for an Ohio recount - which ended in two election officials being convicted of rigging the count - as proof of concept.On her website, Stein positioned the fundraiser as 'an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections' after experts 'independently identified Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as states where"statistical anomalies" raised concerns.''Our effort to recount votes in those states is not intended to helpHillary Clinton,' she said.The recount may indeed help Clinton, however - if, as experts suggest could be the case, she has been the victim of a cyber-attack on electronic polling stations.
According to New York magazine, the group - which includes computer security and voting law experts - says Clinton performed 7 per cent worse in those Wisconsin counties in which voters input their choice directly into electronic voting machines.In the other counties, where Clinton did better, votershave a paper ballot that is counted using an optical scanner or (in small numbers, to ensure accuracy) by hand.That, they say, suggests the electronic voting machines could have been hacked to filter out Clinton votes - something that can't be done when scanning paper ballots.Their calculations say that proposed hack could have robbed Clinton of 30,000 votes in the state. Shelost Wisconsin to Trump by 27,000.
The experts include J Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society.In an article forMedium, Halderman admits that Clinton's shock defeats in the states - which went against polling predictions - were 'probably' the fault of the polls being 'systematically wrong' rather than hacked.But, he said, neither explanation was 'overwhelmingly more likely than the other,' and so it was imperative for 'physical evidence' to be examined.On November 17, his group contacted Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and general counsel Marc Elias to present them with their findings and push for a recount and investigation, according to New York magazine.But the White House is reportedly leaning on Clinton not to demand the recount, as it wants to focus on smoothing the transition from the Obama administration to Trump's new Cabinet.However, if Stein gets her way, neither Clinton nor the White House will have a choice.
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Clinton's Campaign Chairman John Podesta's Emails were hacked as well as the DNC and voter data in Arizona and Illinois. American Officials pointed Russia as the Culprits |
And Clinton's success in the popular vote may prove more of an impetus to push out the boat anyway.On Wednesday, as Stein's takings rocketed, it was announced that her lead over Trump had increased to more than 2million, and was expected to keep rising.David Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Report tweeted the result Wednesday, as her lead increasedto 1.5 per cent of the vote.According to the Cook Report, Clinton's ballot count is now at 64,225,863 -compared with Trump's 62,210,612.
There are still millions more votes to be counted, and it's believed that most of those will be for Clinton.If Stein or Clinton want to push for the recounts, they'll need to move fast, however.If they want to file a recount in Wisconsin, the deadline is Friday. In Pennsylvania they have until Monday. And in Michigan the cut-off is November 30.Experts would also have to examine the voting machines to see if there was evidence of hacking.
Source: Dailymail
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