more States, recount every place we can.

I think it was wise for her to initially ask for a sum that was obtainable in such a short time frame. It helped spur donations to see a goal that was within reach approach fruition. It bought her a little time now, a few days at least, to raise the rest before it is actually needed

I will gladly fund their continued efforts.

Wouldn't she have known about those fees from the outset?

is taking this on.

That said I hope it doesn't empower Stein to damage future elections by running Green candidates in close races.

Initially it stated that the $2.5M covered the entire cost of recount in 3 states and in the event they raised less than $2.5M they would perform a recount in 1 or 2 states.

The donation page was amended to include the new $6M to $7M number only after they had raised nearly $2M and it was very obvious they would hit the goal. Sorry that is shady. The cost of filing was not $2.5M. It is $2.2M so your revised history explanation for the original goal doesn't even make sense.

The good news is we will see a recount although I don't think it will change anything* but Jill Stein is doing this solely for Jill Stein and her future presidential ambitions


* the recount of an electronic machine is "what is the total on that machine" and that is where any fraud would be happening.

I'm also pretty sure she cannot use these funds for anything else.

As soon as she got enough to file in the first state, that money was used to file. It will be that way for each state, money raised, file for recount in next state. After that, funds go to all the other stuff involved.

There was a post at twitter by Greg Palast that Stein called him first with her idea.

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and all of the info was there. The filing fees and the fact that there would be additional legal fees as well. Yes they raised to goal number sometime during the night, but many gofundme pages do the same. They start with a modest goal (if you can call $2.5 Mil modest) and if they quickly hit the goal they raise it.

You're just wrong.

Let's get together and fund this and support it in the media and blogosphere. This is a great chance to learn the truth. At the very least we put up a fight. If we don't start fighting, this country is going down into a right wing top 1% coup. This is no time for an internecine fight between the Left and the DNCers.

I'm all for seeing this out.