Jill Stein’s Recount Bid Is Over

The recount effort by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in three crucial U.S. states came to an end on Monday, after weeks of legal wrangling yielded only one electoral review in Wisconsin. A U.S. judge in Pennsylvania rejected Stein’s request for a recount and an examination of that state’s voting machines for evidence of hacking in the Nov. 8 …

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 12.08.16

We re-visit the nightmare that has become THE GREAT AMERICAN NON-RECOUNT.

In an election where the “loser” won by 2.6 million votes and the “winner” thinks he was robbed of 3 million, the bloviating Democrats and corporate media mavens have united AGAINST a recount.

Meanwhile it’s been left to Jill Stein and the Greens to try to get one done in a vote count obviously saturated with theft, fraud and utter hypocrisy.

So we are once again joined by Green attorney ROBERT FITRAKIS, filmmaker “(the Best Democracy Money Can Buy”) and investigative reporter GREG PALAST and by Alternet election correspondent STEVE ROSENFELD, to sort through the Gorey details.

If you care about what’s left of our democracy, don’t miss this show….but you might want to drink some nerve-claiming herbal tea as you do….

Leid Stories—The Green Party’s Recount 2016: Court Shuts It Down in Michigan —12.08.16

A federal judge in Michigan last night shut down a recount of ballots cast in the presidential election, upholding a state appeals court ruling that presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party, who initiated the recount action, was not an “aggrieved” candidate under Michigan law, and had no standing or valid reasons for demanding a recount.

Steven Singer – Democrats Need to Embrace Progressivism or Else Move Out of the Way

Democrats, liberals and progressives of every stripe – you’re not going to want to hear this, but hear it you must. We’ve gone around for too long thinking we’ve got all the answers, but obviously we don’t. Hillary Clinton lost. Donald Trump won. There’s something seriously wrongwith what we’ve been doing to get that kind of result. There are some …

Leid Stories—The Green Party’s Recount 2016: Genius Move, Or Epically Bad Judgment Call?—12.05.16

Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate in the 2016 election who got 1 percent of the popular vote and zero electoral votes, last week stunned the political world and even her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, with the announcement that she would seek a vote recount in three states—Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania—with slim voter margins between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Stein said the effort was to “protect the integrity of the vote,” hinting that it was possible that Trump’s victory in these states might have been the result of rigging or fraud. Millions were raised to fund the recounts.

Security experts join Jill Stein’s ‘election changing’ recount campaign

More election security experts have joined Jill Stein’s campaign to review the presidential vote in battleground states won by Donald Trump, as she sues Wisconsin to secure a full recount by hand of all its 3m ballots. Half a dozen academics and other specialists on Monday submitted new testimony supporting a lawsuit from Stein against Wisconsin authorities, in which she …