salarta:
liberalshill:
Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein may be eyeing a recount in three states.
Political observers on Wednesday noticed Stein had launched a fundraising page on her website for a recount.
“After
seeing compelling evidence of voting anomalies, the Stein/Baraka Green
Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our
elections. With your help, are raising money to demand recounts in
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania– three states where the data
suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals,” the page reads.
It goes on to say the group needs to raise “over $2 million by this Friday, 4pm central,” to ensure a recount.
This has to be for Hillary Clinton since there’s no way she’d call for an audit herself. Jill Stein knows good and well she didn’t win any states.
From CNN: “The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote
totals in the three states (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) could have been manipulated or hacked and
presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday.”
You can donate here, if you’d like.
Reblogging here to get word out as fast as possible. Donations to the fund for a recount are needed by THIS FRIDAY by 4 PM CT.
Even if you feel in any way uncertain about this, isn’t it better to donate the money and it go to nothing, than to not donate and find out something that could’ve been done wasn’t due to lack of funds?
So the deal as I understand it is:
* If Clinton were to call for a recount in any state, and the recount in that state did NOT turn out to elect her in that state instead, she would be required to pay the cost of the recount in that state.
* They do that to keep people from just vengefully, constantly demanding recounts for no reason.
* There’s plenty of reason to check those states out, although the CNN article may not have the correct info; the details, from the election security experts who have been trying to get Clinton’s team to ask for a recount, are right here.
* When it says Wednesday here, it means today. As I write this. November 23rd. (Awww, it’s also the 53rd anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who! ANYWAY)
* When I first saw the call for donations, it was at $45,000 out of their $2,500,000 goal. An hour or two later, it was at $80,000.
* It’s been less than 12 hours and they’re now up to $1.3 MILLION, more than halfway to their goal.
* They’re actually going to pull this off.
* I am not going to look it up for each state (you can google “who can ask for a recount in Wisconsin” or wherever but WI has a whole book about it and no thanks), but it looks like yes, Jill Stein can in fact ask for a recount. In Michigan, you have to be one of the people who ran, and lost, to ask for a recount. That seems to be standard practice.
* If Jill Stein calls for a recount, she DEFINITELY has to be the one to pay for it, since there is no fucking way it’s going to be like “Hey, guys, Jill Stein actually won!”
* I honestly think this is amazing. Even if it doesn’t work.
* Because this means that there were like… unless there are other third-party candidates that were on all three states’ ballots, there were probably only three people on this earth who had the ability to call for a recount. Two people with the interest. And one who is actually doing it.
* And for the first time in history, there is actually a way for everyone who wants this to immediately find out that it’s possible and throw money into the pot.
* Everything Trump is already doing is so fucking horrible, and the only saving grace is how incredibly hard people are organizing around every. freaking. single. thing. Again, we’ve never simultaneously had an election like this here, and an organizing tool like the internet, and it’s just.
I have multiple friends who are spontaneously posting to Facebook with shit like, “I am horrified that it has taken this kind of election for me to finally
start hearing through my white privileged ears. I was not in action. I
was complacent. No more.” (actual quote from a middle aged, upper-middle-class, straight cis white woman in Minnesota)
People who were already radical are now even more radical. There’s a powerful shift happening, and powerful communities being built.
I’m seeing people come together to support projects and nonprofits and communities and issues that were already SUPER necessary, that they are finally realizing desperately need support. Doing things that were always needed, that now they perceive as an emergency and want to do anything to fix.
Everything is so horrifying, but this gives me so much hope in the middle of it.
Like, earlier today I was crying because Trump announced he was going to eliminate funding for NASA to study climate change because he thinks it’s “politicized” science.
Now I’m crying because I’m so moved by all of these people giving whatever they can to make sure there is a recount in the most important states. By the visible evidence that we’re a real force now; that people aren’t just committed at a “tweeting/reblogging about it” level, people are like, NO. WE FUCKING STOP THIS NOW.
* And in the time it took me to write this, they’re now at more than $1.4 million.
A lot of awful has happened, but in the midst of the awful, we’re also seeing all the good the American people have to put forth in the face of so much unfairness and hatred.
At this same time, I’m starting to see things that I’ve known were huge problems for years now actually get mainstream acknowledgment as problems. All the problems were just getting ignored or downplayed, as if they were inconsequential and didn’t merit time or effort to combat. What’s happening now has become a huge wake-up call.
As I wrap this post up, the fundraiser is at $1.5 million. We’re over half the amount needed in less than a day. I love it, and I’ll pitch even more money into the cause if it’s still too short tomorrow.
Over on Twitter, I said that I’d be thankful on Thanksgiving if I heard word that an audit was going to happen. I’m hoping that comes true.
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