On the evening of November 29, a state trial court in Wisconsin heard Jill Stein’s lawsuit over whether the presidential recount should be conducted by hand, instead of by running the ballots through the vote-counting machines again. At the end of the hearing, the judge ruled that the state is free to use machines. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Has anybody seen an opinion or order? Stein was on “Democracy Now!” today:
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/30/jill_stein_recounts_are_necessary_because
and said this:
DR. JILL STEIN: What the judge said was that hand-counted would be the gold standard and that that was the best way to restore confidence in the vote. But he, I’m told—this is secondhand—what I understand is that he acknowledged that the Wisconsin law didn’t enable him to order that. So he gave it, shall we say, moral authority to do the hand counts, but felt he could not actually order the hand counts. So it will be up to the county clerks and the county election departments, and we’ll be working with them and encouraging them to do the right thing.
How long have paper scanners been around ??? — 1940s or earlier — for school tests especially.
i.e. MULTIPLE decades of paper scanners.
Two Stein Wisc stories —
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/28/elections-staff-layout-recount-timeline/94539210/
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/29/steins-recount-headed-court-tuesday/94598740/
Do ANY of the States have recount L-A-W-S ??? — and not made up ad hoc stuff by hack lawyers and worse hack judges.
Stein has NOTHING to gain by this. But Hillary Clinton potentially does.
Stein is wasting everyones time. Hate to say it about a 3rd party but it true.