{"id":11948,"date":"2016-12-02T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2016-12-03T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T22:50:55","slug":"recount-2016-looking-like-recount-2000-as-team-trump-files-to-stop-counts-in-wi-mi-pa-bradcast-1222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11948","title":{"rendered":"‘Recount’ 2016 Looking Like ‘Recount’ 2000 as Team Trump Files to Stop Counts in WI, MI, PA: ‘BradCast’ 12\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Team Trump takes a page from the George W. Bush 2000 playbook by attempting to stop the “recounts” in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, just as his margin over Hillary Clinton plummets in PA. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

Over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump or his surrogates have filed multiple legal complaints in three different states<\/a> in an effort to stop the “recounts” (hand-counts, machine counts and\/or forensic analyses of computerized voting and tabulation systems) as lawfully sought by Green Party Presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein<\/a>. As the Stein camp noted<\/a> today, the sudden interest by Team Trump comes as Trump’s margin over Hillary Clinton has dropped from about almost 70,000 votes to about 46,000 votes (out of some 6 million tallied) as PA counties finally complete their initial tallies. The Stein camp notes today: “With his margin of victory in the state nearly halved<\/a> as of last night, and now within 0.2% of triggering an automatic statewide recount, Donald Trump is desperately fighting to stop the recount in Pennsylvania.” His attorneys filed a suit [PDF]<\/a> late Thursday to dismiss her filings in the Keystone State.<\/p>\n

He is also attempting, somewhat successfully, to stop hand-counting from moving forward in MI, where he reportedly leads Clinton by just over 10,000 votes out of about 5 million tallied, including more than 75,000 ballots with no vote reported for President at all, many of those cast in or near Detroit. That figure, Stein charges<\/a>, “is double the number [of undervotes] from 2012.” After Trump filed an objection<\/a> to the “recount” request in MI last night — claiming that a count would “risk having the Electoral College door knocked off its hinges” and delaying the start of counting for as many as five days — the state Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Trump supporter, filed a separate complaint [PDF]<\/a> today on behalf of the state in federal court, seeking to prevent votes from being counted as well. His claim supports Trump’s objection filed yesterday and argues that counting ballots is “frivilous” and is meant by Stein to delay final certification of the results. She describes his action as “nothing more than party politics that needlessly delays what should be a routine verification of the democratic process.”<\/p>\n

In Wisconsin, pro-Trump outfits calling themselves the Great America PAC and the Stop Hillary PAC filed a complaint [PDF]<\/a> in federal court to immediately stop the counting of ballots, which is now in its second day in the Badger State. That complaint, citing Bush v. Gore<\/i> from 2000, argues that counting ballots violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the U.S. Constitution and “may cast an unjustified pall over the election of President-Elect Trump, undermining public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process.” Sounds familiar, ironic and, yes, hypocritical.<\/p>\n

Just before airtime today, a federal Judge in Wisconsin denied<\/a> the plaintiffs’ motion in that case seeking an immediate restraining order to halt the ongoing counts, but has set a hearing on the matter for December 9th. For her part, Stein, pushing back, has announced a press conference for Monday, December 3, across from<\/a> Trump Tower in Manhattan<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So, why are Trump and the GOP against verifying election results? We discuss that, the ongoing and not-ironic-at-all fight<\/a> of the GOP Governor in North Carolina to verify<\/a> his own election results(!) and much more, including Desi Doyen and her latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, on today’s BradCast<\/i>!…<\/p>\n

CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!…<\/a><\/i><\/b>
\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpChallengesMIWIPARecounts_120216.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n

* * *<\/b><\/center>While we post <\/i>The BradCast<\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they’re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at iTunes<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a>, TuneIn<\/a> or our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, The BradCast<\/em> and Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span>Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast, Team Trump takes a page from the George W. Bush 2000 playbook by attempting to stop the “recounts” in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, just as his margin over Hillary Clinton plummets in PA. [Audio link to show follows below.] Over the past 24 hours, Donald Trump or his surrogates have filed multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,675,405,479,63,594,106,6,28,562,507,563,477,305,147,48,899,300,126,166,127,313,514,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-donald-trump","category-election-2000","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-green-party","category-herman-cain","category-jill-stein","category-kpfk","category-michigan","category-lava","category-pennsylvania","category-recount-2016","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-venango-county","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}