It’s not to overturn the election results. As the Green Party has maintained all along when the choices are limited to Trump and Clinton we don’t have a dog in that fight.
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The Stein campaign and the Green Party are filing for recounts because persuasive evidence exists that the vote totals were tampered with in several states. The researchers who uncovered these anomalies brought them to Democrats first. But since both capitalist parties are on the same team, Democrats were uninterested.
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We’re fighting to make voting a constitutional right, and to make sure every vote cast is actually counted, something Hillary and her crew care nothing about.
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Democratic shot callers, Democratic funders and the Democratic president have embraced Trump. They’re tagging out, and he’s tagging in.
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Greens care very much about the integrity and security of the election process. We have candidates in local races across the country in 2017 and 2018 to protect.
Hundreds of Green candidates will be running for local office around the country as mayors, aldermen, school board members and the like. They need to know the votes their neighbors cast for them will actually be counted.
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We have local candidates across the country whose elections can be stolen, in many instances by Democrats, if we don’t create a broad movement to prevent it.
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We have to [...] fight for accountable, tamper proof election processes, for the right for everyone to vote and have every vote counted.
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In November 2000 I was working for the Cook County Elections Department under the Cook County Clerk, a prominent local Democrat.
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Like everybody else, we got up Wednesday morning [after the 2000 election] to the news that Florida’s votes were still uncounted. Thursday or Friday morning our office was booking rental cars and flights to parachute a team into Florida to help find those missing votes, or as we joked among ourselves, to bring them with us. About lunch time the Gore campaign and Jesse Jackson both called telling us to stand down and stay home. They called other political operations around the country and told them to stay home too. Scores of Republican congressional staff and other operatives flooded into Florida and the rest is history.
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In supposed response [...] the 107th Congress passed HAVA, the cynically misnamed “Help America Vote Act.” It provided hundreds of millions to states and counties for the purchase of DRE or direct record entry voting machines. DRE machines are supposed to record a voters’ choice directly into electronic storage, which makes verifiable audits and tracking impossible, and renders the manipulation of results untrackable and trivially easy to whoever can access the software running the machines.
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In 2004 [...] Democratic votes in heavily black and brown precincts were lost, left uncounted, falsely labeled “felons” and prevented from casting ballots, or had their votes disappear in the DRE machines in heavily black and brown precincts dropped off the map.
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But Democrats refused to demand the recounts which would be the beginning of any investigation.
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It fell to the 2004 Green Party candidate David Cobb’s campaign (David Cobb is Jill Stein’s 2016 campaign manager) to raise $800,000 online in about 4 days to fund an Ohio recount. This Green Party funded Ohio recount provided the evidence to spark other investigations in multiple states. It sent one election official in Ohio to prison and helped give birth to a nationwide movement against black box [DRE] voting.
As a result of this nationwide movement several states gave up their exclusive reliance on DRE machines and adopted hybrid systems.
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Legal restrictions prevent [funds raised for recount efforts] from going to local Green parties except to underwrite direct operations in that effort, like dispatching a busload of precinct recount observers. So it's not as though the Stein campaign is diverting these resources from other places.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report, GA Green Party Co-Chair
As further information on the 2000 voting debacle and stolen election, you might enjoy reading Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
He's also recently made a documentary with the same title. Trailer here:
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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