Jill Stein Vote Recount Does Little for Hillary Clinton


After Hillary Clinton blessed her efforts, Stein proceeded to launch a campaign to conduct recounts in voting districts where the results were believed to have been too “close” for observers to be sure they went to Trump. Yet after they did just that in Philadelphia, election officials reported that Clinton received only five more votes than she had before the recount, with it likely that such efforts in other districts will end similarly:

“Stein’s camp had planned on using the district-level recounts as possible evidence for hacking or fraud. The recount turned up no instances of fraud or hacking here, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said, emphasizing the difficulty of hacking voting machines that aren’t connected to the internet.

“We have very primitive voting machines here,” he said. “Our voting system is only vulnerable to individual cases of voting fraud, as we’ve seen. Whenever it does occur it would be someone going in and voting for somebody else or an election board manually adding votes, which is an entirely different thing than hacking.”

The five extra votes for Clinton, he said, came from paper provisional or absentee ballots that were undetected by the optical scanner that counted votes in the days following the election. Schmidt said this can happen when people don’t mark their choices clearly on paper ballots or, ridiculous as it sounds, use a green highlighter instead of a pen or pencil.

“People do ridiculous things,” he said, “all the time.”

The markings that went undetected by the optical scanner were picked up by the manual recount.”

Source: Billy Penn



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