Some people were really, really elated to hear Wednesday that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is preparing to request recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in hopes of tipping the Electoral College in favor of Hillary Clinton.
BREAKING: @DrJillStein & @GreenPartyUS to force re-count in MI, WI & PA. A tiny 50,000 vote shift will un-#Trump the Electoral College.
— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) November 23, 2016
YES! Best day in a long time!!! Thank you!
— Resist! (@SDSunchaser) November 23, 2016
Let's make this HAPPEN!
— WriterNYC (@GirlNYC) November 23, 2016
The news appears to follow a (quickly debunked) recommendation by a group of computer scientists that the Clinton campaign request an audit of the vote in those three states due to evidence that electronic voting machines were likely hacked.
Stein isn’t saying that the machines were hacked; rather, her claim is that votes were cast on “proven hack-prone machines.”
#AuditTheResult: @DrJillStein just called, @GreenPartyUS filing for recount in #Michigan, #Wisconsin & #Pennsylvania https://t.co/lLVJ92nfTb pic.twitter.com/Mu9UWSyxb2
— Greg Palast (@Greg_Palast) November 23, 2016
Jill Stein prepares to request election recounts in battleground states https://t.co/blC2Jm7J5x
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 23, 2016
The Guardian notes that the recount effort will cost the Green Party $2 million or so and that Stein has launched an online fundraising page.
Breaking: Green Party will have to pay for WI recount; campaign now looking to raise $2M by Friday deadline @fox6now
— Bret Lemoine (@BretLemoine) November 23, 2016
Of course she has asked for a donation of $2M to do it.
— A Percipient Woman (@merelyawoman) November 23, 2016
It being the green party, @DrJillStein has to hold a bake sale to fund the recount first. @Greg_Palast
— Nate Young (@srnyoung) November 23, 2016
A couple million dollars to correct a tiny vote shift and save the country seems like a bargain — could it really be that easy?
….50,000 is not a tiny shift. 200 is.
— Scotty2Hotty (@ItsTheRealScott) November 23, 2016
Have fun storming the castle. Also, LOL at a 50,000 vote shift as being "tiny" as opposed to "insuperably enormous." https://t.co/1Z6PCij58M
— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) November 23, 2016
it's almost like the Greens aren't good at electoral politics or something
— Max J. Rosenthal (@maxjrosenthal) November 23, 2016
This is gonna be a long 4 years
— Cheesetrader (@cheesetrader1) November 23, 2016
@Hanksingle @DrJillStein @GreenPartyUS You guys just can't take a loss can you?
— Stevo (@StevenR3197) November 23, 2016
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