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someguyfromcanada  ·  2704 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump lawyers file objection to delay Michigan recount

Well there you go.

Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the standard to get a recount is a very low bar and although Stein said she was aggrieved she failed to allege that her rights were infringed. Those are what you call weasel words. Court voted along party lines.

Decision PDF.





user-inactivated  ·  2704 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Court voted along party lines.

That's the weirdest thing about the whole thing. The people who got the ball rolling didn't expect the result of the election to change, they just wanted to make auditing vulnerable voting machines the norm rather than the exception. People threw money at Jill Stein because they thought it might save us from a Trump administration, but people are stupid. Republicans fighting the recounts are far stranger, because either they're completely blind to how bad that looks (most likely) or actually theocrats, capitalist predators and morons.