This story says Jill Stein has paid the money requested for the Wisconsin recount. Still undecided is whether the count will be by hand.
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On November 29, Al Gore told an audience that he now believes the nation should use the popular vote to choose the president. He says he continued to believe in the electoral college after he lost the 2000 presidential election, but only recently he has changed his mind. He says the system we have now is not working.
Thanks to Political Wire for this link.
On November 28, many news sources said that Texas Republican presidential elector Art Sisneros, who doesn’t want to vote for Donald Trump, had resigned his position as a presidential elector. But, technically, he can’t do that; there is no provision for resigning.
What he can do is simply fail to appear in Austin on December 19. Presidential electors who don’t come to the meeting are deemed to have resigned, and to be replaced by the other electors. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg and Jim Riley for this information.
Those with a melodramatic imagination may imagine fanciful schemes in which presidential electors are kidnapped or otherwise prevented from attending such meetings.
This story explains all the hurdles for Jill Stein to obtain a Pennsylvania presidential vote recount, including an allegation by the state that it is already too late, and the problem that parts of Pennsylvania use voting machines with no audit paper trail. Thanks to Eric Garris for the link.
Brian Sears has compiled the presidential vote so far, for every candidate who got even one write-in. His work is now visible on the web page WaunaKeegan. See it here.