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    Vote Recount (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan)

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    Hillary can still turn this around!
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    I figured he bought the election ... dodgey count... hmmm
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    Recounts are expensive and time consuming. See he has to pay for representatives to go over see the recount to insure Hillarys people don't try and rig it. Michigan double and triple checked there findings to make sure they got it right. So there is no way she can win Michigan. Pennsylvania was won by such a large margin that it's impossible to over turn it. So either way Trump will be president. In the end dumb liberals throwing a temper tantrum wasting people's time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by handofthrawn View Post
    In the end dumb liberals throwing a temper tantrum wasting people's time.
    It's unlikely that the election results will be overturned, but it's well worth the look. The only way a recount does anything is if there was a significant skew in miscounted ballots - which would imply corruption or bias at some level, but it's not like Mr. Trump could be indignant at the suggestion of electoral fraud, given that he's *still* the one arguing it most loudly. At the end of the day, to the extent that anyone has any legitimate lingering doubts about the integrity of the result, EVERYONE should want a recount. People who don't like the result will want the recount if only as a 'hail mary' attempt at changing it; people who DO like the result should want it even *more* to authenticate the legitimacy of the incoming president's mandate.

    Besides, Republicans (and, to the extent of the difference, Trump and his followers) have spent the last 8 years denying the legitimacy of the presidency established by the last two elections. If we're talking about temper tantrums and wasting people's time, the bar has been set *really* low on these things.

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    Americans have spoken load and clear with the presidential, Senate and Houses all being dominantly won by Republicans. As a independent until Democrats fix there party I will never vote again for a Democrat. Obama will be the last Democrat I will ever vote for until Democrats completely purge the party of corruption. That means firing everyone that works for the DNC and electing a chairman who will represent all of the party.

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    no recount in PA (I live here)...Stein missed the deadline which was Monday 11/28 to file her demands...Judges said no bueno. Ooh and for any request for recount to happen in PA the margin MUST be .05 or less difference in numbers...Numbers in PA were .08
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    The problem is the average voice in rural stated have more power than an average voice in larger states.

    Either fix it by recalculating how many electoral votes each state gets or abolish it all together because both of those options are better than the current system. The state in which you vote in should have no impact in how powerful your vote is

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    Quote Originally Posted by brandonc204 View Post
    The extremely rural states like Wyoming have a minimum number of electors mandated by the constitution because if they were held to the same standard as California they would have zero electoral votes. There is no way to make the system completely fair in a country where the largest state has 65 times the population of the smallest.

    The USA has never been a democracy. True democracy doesn't work. Otherwise we would just text vote our opinions to the government for everything.

    The electoral college will, most likely, not change in our lifetime. 2/3 of the states would have to approve a change to the constitution. All of the lower population states will say no, because they will lose some major influence at the national level.
    Agree. But states can split their electoral votes. In Maine the popular vote winner gets 2 votes and each district gets 1 vote for their popular vote winner for their 4 total votes.
    Seems more of a representitive government to me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by brandonc204 View Post
    Yes, this would be nice to see. Completely disastrous for some of the big states though :D Could you imagine New York City not dominating all the electoral votes from New York. They would lose their damn minds.
    Either way it forces the parties to campaign in areas they normally wouldn't as it puts more in play. You may get more republican votes in the cities but at the same time it puts many more democratic votes in red states in play as well. Many of these red states had 40%+ democrat vote that all went to republicans.

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    BTW, said this on page 1

    I live in PA, 2/3 of PA used PAPER ballots because they did not trust the system. The ballots were hand counted AND machine counted on an independent system for each Borough or District. A PA recount request needed to be filed by 11/28 which was not done. Because of the late filing, she was required to pay a late filing fee, which she has not done.

    To push an automatic recount, the difference needed to be .5 and the difference was .8. There is no way that a recount is going to happen in PA, no matter how hard she tries to push. This is just another way for her to grab some money for the flailing Green Party and their egomaniac ways.

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