It was a great fundraiser for the Green Party, but Jill Stein’s recount effort seems to have reached a dead end. News broke Saturday evening that Stein would discontinue her recount effort in Pennsylvania after failing to post a $1 million bond mandated by a Commonwealth Court judge.

Stein, who so far has raised $7 million for the recount effort in three states, said Saturday that “the judge’s outrageous demand that voters pay such an exorbitant figure is a shameful, unacceptable barrier to democratic participation,” calling it “another sign that Pennsylvania’s antiquated election law is stacked against voters.”

Actually, Pennsylvania already held its election, on Nov. 8 — Stein seems to have forgotten that what she’s asking for is a hand recount of every ballot based on an unsupported claim that voting machines might have been hacked.

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Actually, those who read the fine print already know that there was no guarantee of a recount, and that any money left over would go toward unspecified efforts to promote election integrity in the future:

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