Sanders campaign declines KY recount so taxpayers can foot bill for recanvass.

[RandySF]

What's the difference?

As NPR's Asma Khalid noted on air — a recanvass will "entail checking all of the voting machines and absentee ballots in all each of the state's counties to verify the accuracy of the vote totals."

In other words, individual ballots will not be checked. A recount would have re-checked how people voted on actual ballots.

Hillary Clinton leads Sanders by less than 2,000 votes following the May 17 primary.

You mean they won't check actual ballots?

Nope.

Why would Sanders not request a recount then?

Because his campaign would have to pay for it. The state pays for the recanvass.

Politically, it gives Sanders the opportunity to continue to call into question the results; allow some of his supporters to continue to allege that Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is close to the Clintons, put her finger on the scale; raise money — and do all of it at no cost.

Not to mention — all of this is over probably one delegate. The AP allocated 27 pledged delegates apiece for Clinton and Sanders with one outstanding. Clinton currently leads by 271 pledged delegates and 766 overall.



http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479346781/why-sanders-requested-a-recanvass-and-not-a-recount-in-kentucky

[DJ13]

1. Why would Sanders not request a recount then?

Because Kentucky used black box no paper trail voting machines in many counties, so theres no way to recount those votes.

[WhiteTara]

3. I think it is because he is virtually broke

and a recount would take money from his campaign ads (Jeff and Tad would have sad over that too)

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. SWING AND A MISS

no you cannot physically do a recount in voting boxes that do not have a physical record. This is a well known issue among election accountability activists.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. How do you count black box voting?

Which is why they need to go.

[DJ13]

4. Theres nothing wrong with black box voting machines

As long as Hillary is the one who wins with them.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Hillary does best where voting machines flunk hacking tests.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/clinton-does-best-where-voting-machines-flunk-hacking-tests-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/

[msanthrope]

6. I'd be interested in cross checking this article against BS campaign fundraising

claims.