Looks like Jill Stein has run out of cash. CBS’ Pittsburgh affiliate reports that the Green Party can’t raise the $1 million bond for the Pennsylvania recount, and has withdrawn their demand. And with that, the election is well and truly over:
The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.
The Green Party’s filing came Saturday, saying it couldn’t afford the $1 million bond the court had set. A Commonwealth Court hearing had been scheduled in the case for Monday, and the $1 million bond was due later that day.
Pennsylvania was by far the toughest state for the recall, with a final gap of around 56,000 votes. There was no chance that a recount would even come within an order of magnitude of that gap, but the Stein campaign had insisted that the Keystone State still needed to do a hand recount of every ballot.
That ends the campaign. Without taking Pennsylvania off the Electoral College table, Trump can’t lose. Even if Stein manages to force the electors from Wisconsin and Michigan to miss the safe-harbor deadline and the Electoral College on December 19th by tying up both states in useless recounting, Trump still has 280 electors and a clear victory.
Even with that, though, Wisconsin looks like it’s well on its way to finishing its recount on time. Its Day 3 results show that almost a third of Wisconsin precincts have completed their recounts, accounting for over 705,000 of the 2.975 million ballots cast in the presidential race. The net change has been to find 349 additional votes. Trump has gained 138 votes and Hillary Clinton 126, which means that Trump has extended his lead by 12 points. That’s, er, not exactly what Stein promised donors who coughed up millions for this stupid and futile gesture.
Update: The court in Pennsylvania has put an exclamation point on the subject of recounts:
AND NOW, this 3rd day of December, 2016, Petitioners having filed a Praecipe to Discontinue and Withdraw the above-captioned matter, the hearing scheduled for Monday, December 5, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. is CANCELLED, and the Chief Clerk is directed to mark this matter CLOSED.
That’ll do it.
#1: calcon To: hondo68, deckard, and other hippies (#0)
Turn off the lights as you exit the elections.
Wipe those tears and runny noses, it's only four more years until hill can run again.
calcon posted on 2016-12-03 19:18:18 Reply Private Reply
#2: Deckard To: calcon (#1)
...it's only four more years until hill can run again.
You're a real idiot if you think Hillary will run again.
Deckard posted on 2016-12-03 19:24:24 Reply Private Reply
#3: Hondo68 To: Deckard, calcon, Depends (#2)
LOL That's true.
Calcon ran thru a case of Depends worrying that Hillary would fly out of the closet on her broom, ha ha, ho ho.
She's FINISHED, politically dead!
Hondo68 posted on 2016-12-03 19:43:54 Reply Private Reply
#4: calcon To: Deckard (#2)
Calm down there lil man, you're going to pop a vein.
calcon posted on 2016-12-03 19:46:30 Reply Private Reply
#5: calcon To: hondo68 (#3)
calcon posted on 2016-12-03 19:49:36 Reply Private Reply
#6: GrandIsland To: calcon (#0)
I bet the filthy C[_]NT won't run out of weed.
The hippie libtard bitch wasn't even close... and once marijuana is legal in most states, the Green Party will be obsolete... pot heads will be too efffin high to vote or care.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-12-03 20:04:40 Reply Private Reply
#7: sneakypete To: calcon (#1)
Put a fork in her,she's done. Not only a two-time loser now,but not even modern medical science can keep that diseased body functioning that long. Chances are she will be taking the long dirt map by that time.
AND.....,not only a 2 time loser,but she lost BOTH times to the worse candidates to ever run for President in the history of the nation.. The Dims could dig up JFK's corpse to run and the rotten corpse would get more votes than she would get.
Good riddance to bad trash.
sneakypete posted on 2016-12-03 20:22:42 Reply Private Reply
#8: buckeroo To: sneakypete (#7)
buckeroo posted on 2016-12-03 20:31:39 Reply Private Reply
#9: sneakypete To: buckeroo (#8)
He's probably even a little fresher at this point.
sneakypete posted on 2016-12-03 20:59:52 Reply Private Reply
#10: no gnu taxes To: sneakypete (#7)
Well the media gave an absolute free pass to the Kenyan. Not only that, they viciously attacked anybody who questioned his credentials, which were never verified.
I always knew Trump had a good chance. He didn't count on the media. He mocked them. In fact, I think a large reason why he ran was he was disgusted with them.
Trump was "misunderestimated" at every turn. He beat the Democrats, Republicans, media, political experts, and all the dirt anybody could dig up about him, true or untrue.
He should have been a bad candidate, but he wasn't. I doubt the great candidate (Rubio) would have won.
no gnu taxes posted on 2016-12-03 21:17:49 Reply Private Reply
#11: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#6)
Guess you cops will have to take out your sadistic aggression on the elderly and family pets when that happens.
Deckard posted on 2016-12-03 21:25:10 Reply Private Reply
#12: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#11)
Plenty of scumbag coke, heroin, meth and filthy shitbag opiate users to encarcerate so they victimize each other, kill each other or hang up from the bars.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-12-03 21:33:58 Reply Private Reply
#13: CZ82 To: All (#0)
CZ82 posted on 2016-12-03 22:50:21 Reply Private Reply
#14: buckeroo To: CZ82 (#13)
buckeroo posted on 2016-12-03 23:05:06 Reply Private Reply
#15: CZ82 To: buckeroo (#14)
I guess we'll find out as time goes by but you know a lot of what he said he wants to do will be fought by some in both parties. Time for the popcorn and beer/bourbon.
CZ82 posted on 2016-12-03 23:43:08 Reply Private Reply
#16: redleghunter To: calcon (#0)
redleghunter posted on 2016-12-04 04:01:28 Reply Private Reply
#17: redleghunter To: CZ82 (#13)
redleghunter posted on 2016-12-04 04:02:19 Reply Private Reply