Americans Pony Up For What Taxes Should Cover – Legit Election Tallies: ‘BradCast’ 11/25/2016

Why the recount/audit battle matters well beyond Election 2016

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On today’s BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro, we track the battle for a Presidential recount in three contested states. A look into the difference between a ‘recount’ and an ‘audit’. How a disinformation campaign by Russia apparently took over hashtags to push false narratives, generated and distributed fake news, and worked overall to undermine Americans’ faith in our democracy.

A quick delve into why Facebook’s profits could take a serious ding if the company really went after fake news.

Then Leland Faust, unapologetic free market fan and author of A Capitalist’s Lament, looks at the decay of financial industry standards over the past forty years, and demands change — even while he decries existing regulations as ineffective wastes of time.

Finally, in the spirit of the season, a small list of things to be grateful for — little glimpses of what America still does right.

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Americans Pony Up For What Taxes Should Cover – Legit Election Tallies: ‘BradCast’ 11/25/2016

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    Dredd said on 11/26/2016 @ 3:42am PT: [Permalink]

    The charge for recount is outrageous. Should be illegal. Except for a small token – $100.00 or the like.

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    Ernest A. Canning said on 11/26/2016 @ 12:47pm PT: [Permalink]

    We need to stop using the word “recount.” Stein has requested a “hand-count.” This will mark the 1st count of paper ballots by human beings.

    Whether the machine tallies were the product of electronic counting or the product of pre-programmed results remains to be seen. (Of course, there’s also the possibility of computer malfunction or other error.)

    The “hand-count” will either verify or refute the accuracy of the machine tallies. Either way it is the first occasion where we can state with any degree of certainty that the ballots have actually been “counted.”

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    Mugzi said on 11/26/2016 @ 1:38pm PT: [Permalink]

    I wish they would have included FL in the “recount”…especially the Tampa – Pinellas area, that is a pretty “blue” area and it may have gone red, not likely

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    Dredd said on 11/26/2016 @ 3:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    recount
    [ri-kount]

    verb (used with object)

    1. to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.

    2. to narrate in order.

    3. to tell one by one; enumerate.

    ———————-

    pedantic
    or pedantical
    [puh-dan-tik]

    adjective
    1.ostentatious in one’s learning.

    2.overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.

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    zapkitty said on 11/27/2016 @ 5:07am PT: [Permalink]

    … Mugzi said…

    “I wish they would have included FL in the “recount”…especially the Tampa – Pinellas area, that is a pretty “blue” area and it may have gone red, not likely”

    After the election theft in 2000… when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped an ongoing recount… the GOP-controlled Florida legislature then implemented a regime of recount rules so bizarrely Kafkaesque that it is literally impossible for a candidate to ask for a recount.

    Only the DOJ or SCOTUS can demand a recount in FL… and I don’t see that happening an more than I see the Hillary camp doing anything but trying to cover Hillary’s ass during the recount.

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    zapkitty said on 11/28/2016 @ 8:52am PT: [Permalink]

    … Ren Jander said…

    “THERE WILL BE NO RECOUNT IN PENNSYLVANIA: Jill Stein Perpetrating Election Fraud.”

    Wow… the F.U.D. flood continues with a “law blog” that appeared overnight with exactly one blog post: a screed that accuses Jill Stein of electoral fraud and tries to scare PA voters away from asking for a recount by accusing any such voters of perjury… a very odd assumption.

    But what Ren Jander asserts and
    what the Stein recount FAQ says are two
    different things:

    http://www.jill2016.com/recountfaq

    Q: How is the recount going to work in Pennsylvania?

    A: We are supporting a voter-initiated recount in Pennsylvania, in election districts where at least three voters in each precinct file affidavits with their County Board of Elections within the specified time frame. Interested voters can fill out the volunteer form. This page will ask for basic information and it contains a video of Jill Stein explaining the intricacies of submitting an affidavit. Then you will be re-directed to a page containing detailed information about the process.
    Get started: jill2016.com/recountPA

    And the PA difficulties are discussed in various (“real”) news outlets such as CBS
    and are, again, somewhat… at odds… with the assertions by Jander:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jil...-need-to-know/

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    Larry Bergan said on 11/28/2016 @ 12:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    All of the corporate media, including NPR will focusing on one thing, and one thing only:

    A smooth transition to a Trump presidency.

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    Larry Bergan said on 11/28/2016 @ 2:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    You have got to be kidding me:

    Stein’s Recount Battle Continues. Here’s the Latest

    Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein on Monday told the Wisconsin Elections Commission that she would sue unless the state conducted its recount by hand.

    Unless she wins the case in Dane County Circuit Court, officials in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties could decide whether they want to count election ballots manually or by machine, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

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