Should Hillary Clinton Ask For An Audit in Three Key States? (POLL)
"Secretive Push Underway to Audit Key 2016 Swing-State Vote Totals"
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/23/secretive-push-underway-to-audit-key-2016-swing-state-vote-totals/
(From the above cited article published November 23, 2016)
..a group of computer science professors and lawyers are reportedly pushing Hillary Clinton's failed campaign to call for audits in three key swing states that clinched the election for Trump:
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Last Tuesday, Gabriel Sherman of 'New York' magazine reported the demand by Alex Halderman, a well-regarded elections security expert, and John Bonifaz, a veteran Boston lawyer and activist. to push the Clinton campaign to seek recounts in the three states.
"The only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence - paper ballots and voting equipment in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania," Halderman wrote.
"Unfortunately, nobody is ever going to examine that evidence unless candidates in those states act now, to petition for recounts."
In order for Clinton to win, she would have to overturn the results in all three states.
In the absence of any overt moves by the Clinton campaign to seek a recount, Green Party candidate Jill Stein said Wednesday that she would challenge the vote in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Stein is raising money to fund that effort and is asking contributors to kick in for a total of $2 million.
Wisconsin law allows the Clinton campaign to demand a recount.
The deadline for doing so is Friday at 5 PM.
In a statement, the Pennsylvania Department of State said it was aware of the "New York" article, and said (the) state allows for an election outcome to be challenged in court within 20 days of the election.
Fred Woodhams, a spokesperson for Michigan's Department of State, told
"Foreign Policy" that state law there allows for the losing candidate to challenge an election outcome.
Doing so would cost the Clinton campaign about $120,000.
It would have to file a recount request by next Wednesday, Nov. 30.
"Jill Stein Launches Fundraising Effort To Ask For A Recount In 3 States"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028300612#top
"JUST DONATED! RECOUNT"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512622286#post39
"NSA Chief Says Russia Hacked The 2016 Election"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512619985
SIGN THE PETITION
More than 178,000 people have already signed the Change.org petition:
http://www.change.org/p/demand-an-audit-of-the-2016-presidential-election
Democracy For America Petition:
"Sign The Petition: Swing States Need To Audit The Presidential Vote"
http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/audit_the_vote
MoveOn.org Petition:
"Audit or Hand Recount Votes in Key States"
http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/audit-or-hand-recount
"USA Today: Still Time For An Election Audit"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028290706
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