2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow can anyone trust Jill Stein after what she said about Hillary just a month ago?
when she said she preferred Donald Trump over Hillary and how she felt Hillary was more likely to start a nuclear war than Trump.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)attention. It is an interesting viewpoint.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In my view she is an attention seeker who shows no interest in building a Green Party. A once every four year effort does not build anything. If it did, the Green Party would have attracted more voters and votes.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's a win/win for them as well as her and the Greens
DFW
(54,384 posts)She'll have done something no one else did. She'll be owed some serious dues. Cynical voices can claim that she is only a tool of Putin trying to cover all his bases, but that is a risk I'd take if it means the Electoral College declares that it is Hillary that gets sworn in on January 20th and not Trump.
On the other hand, IF there was any tampering, and it wouldn't surprise me to hear there was some, it was probably done by people sophisticated enough to have covered their tracks well enough to not have their work traceable at this point. Each hard drive would have to be forensically examined by experts who know what to look for. Keep in mind that in Ohio, 2004, only ONE voting machine out of all the ones used was forensically examined. In a precinct with 600 registered voters, it gave Bush 3000 votes. That was called a "glitch," and NONE of the other machines was similarly examined before the hard drives were wiped clean. The Ohio Secretary of State, who was (a mere coincidence, you understand) also the chairman of the Ohio Bush re-election committee, was only too happy to leave it that, since in 2004, the candidate who won Ohio won the White House.
Maybe Jill Stein is just having an Alec Guinness "What have I done (Bridge on The River Kwai)" moment, and wants to rectify it? I don't care. SOMEONE should be doing what she is doing, if for no other reason than to put this aspect of the election to rest. As for Comey and the media, I say, "lock 'em up!"
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And if election integrity were a Federal concern and if it were overseen by a Federal agency perhaps many of these problems would not exist. There is no good reason that partisan officeholders should oversea elections that affect their parties and positions.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)It's in her interest to do this...first because she looks like a hero for insuring voting integrity...and secondly, I don't think she thought Trump would win, and this is yet another way to look good with the majority of the country, if the election shifts to Hillary.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)She has raised well over the requested amount. This is a GP fund raiser. She has the ego of Trump.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)This is a win/win for her.
Find fraud? It weakens the Republicans and boosts her party's profile
Don't find fraud? Still gets publicity and favorable press in liberal circles for standing up to Trump
Either way, the law firms selected for the suits certainly have a favorable relationship with her party and money will flow to the Green's coffers
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Donate it to a good cause? I don't think so. Jill Stein loathes Hillary to the extent that she said in that video that she prefers Trump over Hillary.
I don't know the real reason why Stein is doing this, but she isn't doing it for the purpose of seeing Hillary win. Maybe all of a sudden she's mad at Trump for not offering her a cabinet position or something. Who the heck knows.
womanofthehills
(8,710 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Doesn't past the smell test.
womanofthehills
(8,710 posts)People would rather hate Jill Stein than get the voted counted. I could care less why she is doing it - it's wonderful she is doing it.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)People expect a miracle and I very much doubt anything like this is going to happen.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I'm very interested to see how this goes forward. Neither of those statements conflict with my lack of trust in her.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)to DefCon 5 since Nov. 9th.
VOX
(22,976 posts)I'd throw a few bucks at Manson. It's desperate, admittedly, but its kitchen-sink-tossing time.