[EM] Fwd: Jill Stein, Massive US Vote Fraud, Recount Campaign

[C.Benham]

> The Green Party plans to hold a conference in Washington, DC in 
> February devoted to the 2016 election, including the concepts and 
> issues of verified voting, rank choice voting, the Electoral College 
> and opening up the debates to more independent candidates....

Of some interest to US electoral reform advocates?

Chris Benham

https://sputniknews.com/us/201611241047810414-stein-sputnik-interview-election-recount/

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
21:55 24.11.2016(updated 00:39 25.11.2016)

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Jill Stein, the Green Party's candidate in the 2016 US presidential 
race, has raised over $3.7 million in just over a day in an effort to 
force a vote recount in the key battleground states of Wisconsin, 
Michigan and Pennsylvania. Speaking to Sputnik, Dr. Stein offered 
details about the motivations behind her effort.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
On Wednesday, the Stein campaign announced that it had begun raising 
funds for the three state recount in what it said was a "multi-partisan 
effort to check the accuracy of the machine-counted vote tallies in 
these states in order to ensure the integrity of our elections."

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Stein cited a host of concerns brought to her by voters, computer 
scientists, and voting systems professionals as the reason for filing 
for the recount. Her announcement follows on recent reporting that the 
Clinton campaign was also considering filing similar hand-count recounts 
and forensic analyses of electronic voting in the same states.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Stein's online campaign has spread like wildfire, and has already raised 
well over the $2.2 million formally needed to file for a recount in the 
three key states ahead of deadlines on November 25, 28 and 30. Other 
costs associated with the recount, including attorney's fees and 
statewide recount observers are expected to run anywhere from $6-7 
million. Accordingly, Stein's campaign is asking for at least $4.5 
million, having already raised $3.7 million as of 2 pm EST.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
That figure officially surpasses the $3.509 million the Green Party 
candidate raised during her presidential run. Stein received 1.39 
million votes, or just over 1% of the popular vote, in the election held 
earlier this month.

Speaking to Brad Friedman, host of Radio Sputnik's Bradcast, Stein 
offered details about what it was she was trying to accomplish with her 
initiative.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Simply put, she said that the recount effort is meant to assure voters 
that their votes were accounted for and counted accurately. "We have to 
move really fast in order to basically verify the vote and be confident 
our votes were actually counted, that they weren't flipped or stripped 
and that we have a system of elections we can believe in," the candidate 
explained.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Stein said that her "interest as a citizen, as a person in America, that 
the vote be valid," is what's driving the effort from her end. "Why 
would anyone in their right mind not want to have secure and verified 
vote? In a very vicious, hotly contested election that used 
hack-friendly voting machines, in a hack-riddled election, we deserve 
some confidence in the outcome of this election," she said.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
"I'm responding to a [group] of people…observers and advocates, both 
experts and just ordinary citizens, who feel like this is unacceptable 
and that these machines as a baseline is not the way we should be voting."

"Then there are allegations of voting irregularities that I cannot 
testify to myself – as I understand these are rather debatable grey 
zones at this point. But I think there is plenty of evidence to say that 
we deserve confidence in our voting system," she added.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Stein stressed that it's actually an "outrage we have to go to 
extraordinary lengths to verify the vote."

"This is something we shouldn't have to ask a recount for. We shouldn't 
have to spend a million dollars in Wisconsin alone in order to be 
confident of our vote. The tragedy is that this is not built into our 
voting system – that 25% of Americans vote on these electronic machines 
that have no paper record whatsoever. This is really a mockery of 
democracy – one of many incredible vulnerabilities of our democracy and 
our elections."

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
Ultimately, Stein suggested that "if ever there was a time to stand up 
and demand an accountable and secure vote, this is the time to do it. If 
we don't do it now, when exactly – what would be the cause to do it?"

Stein noted that "it feels really good to be standing up right now and 
to be surrounded by so many people who say that it's time for us to take 
control of our democracy, to use the resources that we have right now to 
stand up – to give ourselves a gift on this Thanksgiving and have 
something to be thankful for…"

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
The Green Party plans to hold a conference in Washington, DC in February 
devoted to the 2016 election, including the concepts and issues of 
verified voting, rank choice voting, the Electoral College and opening 
up the debates to more independent candidates....

Widgets Magazine
Widgets Magazine

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Stein Tells Sputnik About Vote Recount Campaign
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