Jill Stein’s web page here announces a fund-raising drive to pay for a presidential vote recount in Wisconsin, and maybe Michigan and Pennsylvania also. She is entitled to a recount because she was on the ballot in those states. However, it is expensive. She does not want a recount because she is dissatisfied with her own vote count. She is asking for a recount to learn what effect such a recount would have on the Democratic and Republican vote totals.
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Edited By Richard Winger
How much have they raised?
According to their website
$1,022,573.25 RAISED
GOAL: $2,500,000.00
Is it legal to contribute $10,000 to a Massachusetts political party in order to bypass federal law regarding campaign contributions to a federal office?
They now have enough to recount in Michigan and Pennsylvania. If they flipped those two states, Trump is down to a 270-268 advantage.
Now up to 1.5 million.
What e-voting machines with NO paper trail are can NOT be rigged ???
How many paper scanners can be rigged ??? Michigan has ALL paper scanner machines.
ANY hand recount sampling of the ballots in paper scanning systems ??? — in the EVIL ROTTED gerrymander minority rule regimes ???
$$$ TRILLIONS for all sort of STATIST stuff — warfare, welfare, etc. etc. — less than pennies for LEGAL elections ???
How EVIL CORRUPT is the ENTIRE regime — 100 on a 1 to 100 scale ???
Will the Trump 7 (or less) year old brain END human life on Mother Earth ???
In Michigan, the “deposit” is $25 per precinct. I don’t know exactly how many precincts the state has this year; for 2014, it was just under 5,200 — which would work out to $130,000 or so. Given that the “pre-official” margin is now less than 10,000 votes, I would think they might ask for Michigan first — unless it gets close enough (within 2,000 votes or less, per MCL 168.880a(1)) that an automatic recount is triggered.
Jim Riley… No. State parties have separated accounts for state operations/candidates and another for federal candidates. Most third-party state parties don’t actually bother with the federal accounts because they’re capped at $10,000 nationwide to all state parties.
The total cost for recounts in these three states is reported to be a combined $2.2 million. As of right now, Stein’s campaign has raised $2,206,469.86
It’s gonna be a wild ride all the way to December 19th.
AMcCarrick, so I can contribute $2700 directly to a presidential campaign, and another $10,000 to a federal account of a State Party, and then the State party can forward that money to the presidential campaign?
Or must the State Party spend their money independently of the candidates?