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(24,324 posts)ning.
"Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means," the filing states. "They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court."
Stein elaborated on Twitter, asking: "How odd is it that we must jump through bureaucratic hoops and raise millions of dollars so we can trust our election results?"
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/03/504285672/jill-stein-campaign-drops-her-recount-effort-in-pennsylvania
krawhitham
(4,651 posts)Land Shark
(6,346 posts)That said the key word is "statewide" effort is dropped. You need signatures in every precinct and it is pretty much impossible to track those folks down for any amount of money.
Efforts in certain counties are proceeding however.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)This doesn't include the money used to fight the lawsuit against it, or the one in Michigan. Nor does it include the Michigan recount cost (which is expected to be more than $5m). People giving her crap for raising the fundraising goal had no clue that recounts generally are far more expensive than the initial costs. Nor does it seem Stein was expecting such high increases herself.
Regardless, if the Michigan recount continues, she will likely be in a ton of debt. Not the other way around.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)EL34x4
(2,003 posts)Not the whole city.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Palmer report said 70 precincts. Know if that's accurate?
Crap.
bpositive
(423 posts)Hillary does not chip in- we need to get to the bottom of this!
Cha
(298,019 posts)Quixote1818
(29,018 posts)and there would be a huge amount of momentum to recount PA.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)After 2 days of recounts, Trump is up 3 votes.
http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/wisconsin-recount-totals-update-day-2-3-1-returns-two-latest-info-news-live-michigan/
pnwmom
(109,024 posts)till ONE DAY BEFORE the deadlines.
This was a week after she started collecting money.
KatyBR
(183 posts)Despite this headline in npr, She's still going forward with recounts under the first state provision -- within precincts that could get the affidavits in on time, but the judge in the lawsuit she filed for a full-state state-wide hand recount required a $1mill bond of the 100 people who had sued for the recount. Her campaign seems to be saying these people can't afford it (maybe Green Party was not allowed to pay?) So the lawsuit requesting a state-wide recount had to be dropped.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/03/504285672/jill-stein-campaign-drops-her-recount-effort-in-pennsylvania
"In court documents filed shortly before 5 p.m., an attorney for the Stein campaign wrote, "Petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means. They cannot afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court."
In the meantime, the state is within .02 of having an automatic recount. Philly is recounting by hand their ballots voluntarily.
Demit
(11,238 posts)counted by hand are absentee and provisional ballots.
pnwmom
(109,024 posts)That wasn't a serious effort. She had already been asking for money for a week.
flamingdem
(39,336 posts)No, the Pennsylvania recount effort isnt over. Yes, the mainstream media is lying to you.
Since the recount effort in three states got underway last week, the major media have afforded it virtually no coverage. Even as the Wisconsin recount enters its third day and numerous inconsistencies are being documented, the mainstream media has remained silent. After the Michigan elections board approved the recount go-ahead, nary a peep. Now the major media outlets are finally talking about the Pennsylvania recount effort, but only to report that its now over which is not the case.
What actually happened today is that in a desperate last ditch attempt at preventing the recount, the State of Pennsylvania suddenly invented a million dollar bond that third party candidate Jill Stein would have needed to immediately pay for. This came after the state of Wisconsin had surreptitiously increased its own recount price tag from $1.1 million to $3.8 million, for the rather transparent purpose of trying to bankrupt Steins recount effort.
Stein had raised millions of dollars, but with so much of that having been eaten up already by Wisconsins sudden price hike and the attorney fees required to fight fierce court battles against all three non-cooperating states, it turns out she didnt have the $1 million cash on hand today to cover Pennsylvanias sudden ransom demand. Thus she was forced to withdraw her court petition for a Pennsylvania recount. That doesnt mean its over, of course, only that there is now another legal hurdle to fight.