[EL] Green party call for recounts

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

That's not what Halderman suggested; I believe a good paraphrase would be
that he suggested that there had been a lot of other hacking in this
election aimed at influencing voter sentiment and that close margins for a
winner in these circumstances deserve close scrutiny.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:46 Mark Scarberry <mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu>
wrote:

> Jill Stein and her Green party seem to be raising money to fund recounts
> in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania because of the suggestion that
> voting machines were hacked. See
> http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/jill-stein-recount-three-states-election-hacks-231814
> .
>
> Is a candidate who loses by a very large margin (based on the initial
> count) ordinarily entitled to a recount if the candidate is willing to pay
> for it? Does the candidate need to claim that a recount might result in the
> candidate winning, or at least that the candidate is seeking the recount in
> an attempt to win? Does any voter ordinarily have the right to demand a
> recount, if the voter is willing to pay for it?
>
> Does anyone think Halderman's suggestion that the machines were hacked so
> as to swing the election has any merit?
>
> Mark Scarberry
> Pepperdine University School of Law
>
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