The federal judge who ordered Michigan to begin its recount on Monday effectively ended it this evening, extinguishing his earlier order, ruling that Green Party candidate Jill Stein "speculative claims" had no legal standing to request another look at ballots.
After chaos earlier in the week amid lawsuits flying back and forth in Michigan, as AP reports, the ruling tonight seals Republican Donald Trump's narrow electoral victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Michigan.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith agreed with Republicans who argued that the three-day recount must end a day after the state appeals court dealt a blow to the effort. Stein, who finished fourth in Michigan on Nov. 8, didn't have a chance of winning even after a recount and therefore isn't an "aggrieved" candidate, the appeals court said.
"Because there is no basis for this court to ignore the Michigan court's ruling and make an independent judgment regarding what the Michigan Legislature intended by the term 'aggrieved,' plaintiffs have not shown an entitlement to a recount," Goldsmith said of Stein and allies.
It was Goldsmith's midnight ruling Monday that started the recount in Michigan. But his order dealt with timing - not whether a recount was appropriate. More than 20 counties so far are recounting ballots, and some are finished.
Earlier Wednesday, the Michigan elections board said the recount would end if Goldsmith extinguished his earlier order.
Stein got about 1 percent of the vote in three states where she's pushed for recounts — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump narrowly won all three.
Stein insists she's more concerned about the accuracy of the election. She alleges, without evidence, that the elections may have been susceptible to hacking.
"They present speculative claims going to the vulnerability of the voting machinery — but not actual injury," Goldsmith said.
Clinton needed all three states to flip in order to take enough electoral votes to win the election.
So Michigan is over.
A court hearing will be held Friday on a possible recount in Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin's recount, which started last week, has increased Trump's margin of victory over Clinton thus far.
As a reminder, Trump has 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232 (270 are needed to win). Michigan has 16 electoral votes, Pennsylvania has 20 and Wisconsin has 10.
Perhaps most important/entertaining from here is that 'Electors' will convene December 19th across the country to vote for president, and then we will see just what happens when the so-called "Hamilton Electors" are called to task.
What kind of insane topsy turvy world do we live in when a washed up politician wannabe cannot even use money donated by stupid people to foment civil unrest... poor Jill Slime...
Thats just it.. The money that can't be used. a tidy sum, will there be lawsuits identifing the various accounts those shekels ended up in?
The NOT so poor now...Shill Stein..
It's all with Hitlery... The Cunt.
Why is the Judge afraid of a recount? Unless someone stole the election and he's being blackmailed.
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/views-of-news/#presidenttrump
Since you asked....
The recounts so far have INCREASED Trump's popular vote share. The only leg the Dems have to stand on is the (flimsy) claim the won the popular vote.
If this continues, this erodes their sole remaining claim.
I mean, would they really want people to remember all those videos of people trying to vote for Trump, just to see their vote switched to Hillary?
LOL, you are going to confuse those poor libtard snowflakes with facts and shit.
Perhaps because it was about to expose massive vote fraud. However, much to your chagrin, that fraud was on the DEM side........unless boogey man POOOtin was trying to get Shitlery elected........hmmmmmmm
Someone did steal the election, they just didn't win it
Fair point, perhaps he doesnt want it getting out that Killery may be guilty of fraud.
if I was American, on the 19th I'd be sharpening my pitchforks waiting for that electoral college vote....can't be too prepared
I've heard a rumor that the proceedings might actually broadcast on CSPAN. I can't wait to watch.
Yes. I want names of electors who voted 'against' the will of the people. It will be time for protesting those people until they realize they have had a duty, really a task, to do and they didn't do it.
The electoral college vote is held in each of the 50 state's capitals.
Our pitchforks move at 2700 fps or faster
...anyone wants to hazard a guess when either Hillary OR Jill Stein last had sex from a male?
Stein was worth $8.5 million to begin with. She should pay the costs herself and return donations.
Sanders & Stein. Fundraisers extraordinaire.
They deserve to be beachfront neighbors.
Yeah... Im sure that will happen... right about the same time monkees come flying out of my butt...
Hillary will be sueing for her share. I want her to sue. I am chanting Sue Hillary, sue Hillareee, sue Hillareee.
That Stein looks eviiiiilll.... or a total idiot.
Or a while lot of both. ;-)
Boy, insane is right!!!! Corruption and lying is everywhere!!!!
I was kind of hoping the recount process would continue. You are probably asking why? Because the DEMOCRATS WERE ABOUT TO GET THEIR HEAD HANDED TO THEM. The DEMOCRATS have proven time and time again that they are nothing but a bunch of despots with reprobate minds. See information below.
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REVEALED: Michigan Recount Uncovers Serious Voter Fraud in Detroit- VOTES COUNTED UP TO 6 TIMES
Dec 7th, 2016
More bad news for Democrats—
Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s Michigan recount unintentionally exposed this major voting fraud scandal.
And, it’s much worse than that.
In one Detroit Precinct, a recount team was given a box of ballots with an unbroken seal where everything appeared proper and in place. The tag on the box said there were 306 ballots. The book said 306, and the ticket said 306, so that means there should be 306 paper ballots on the box. When they pulled out the ballots, there were exactly FIFTY paper ballots in a locked sealed box that again was supposed to have 306. The official canvasser approved count for this precinct was 306. For FIFTY ballots.
It looks like Detroit counts each vote more than SIX TIMES! No wonder they get such high turnout rates!
Ken Crider, who helped with the recount in Cobo Hall in Detroit, posted this on Facebook last night. Ken said a ballot box in Detroit had been tampered with — and that each vote was counted SIX TIMES!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/12/revealed-michigan-recount-uncove...
=== JSMINESET News Source ====
Further election update as of 12/07/16
Friends,
A quick heads up on the Michigan recount: we are in hand to hand combat with the globalists & the war is being won by The Freedom fighters. At COBO Hall in Detroit tonight guess what happened: Hillary/Stein/Obama/Soros/DNC took a huge hit.
Detroit was won on election night by Hillary by tens of thousands of votes. BUT tonight, only 50 ballots were found in a Detroit precinct box sealed & certified as having 306. …. and that finding was the norm and NOT the exception when box after box was opened. The Michigan AG has been contacted by Senator Pat Colbeck to institute a criminal investigation. He presented the findings of corruption earlier today on The Senate floor in Michigan earlier in the day when this story surfaced:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/06/good-news-for-trump-michigan-rec...
I believe this is the same model instituted in a number of other cities around the country. The bastards are on the ropes!
Butt, Butt, Butt..
I thunked that voter fruad were is a conspiracy theory cooked up by the white people?
Now we know why the recount was stopped.
I knew it. It was Trumps plan all along, he put the idea in Jill Stiens head of voter fraud, thus suggesting she ask Soros for the dinero, when Soros bit and the vote recount started the fraud was exposed. Touche, Mr. President Trump. He is awsome.
A real problem, that Michigan law that states if a precinct's paper vote tally doesn't match the machine total, then that precinct is ineligible for a recount. WTF?
What would make sense is that, in a recount, if the actual paper ballots are fewer than the certified machine total, the that precinct's votes are discarded and the paper ballot count is recertified as the actual total.
The current law simply states that when fraud is discovered in a precinct, then the fraudulent total is considered valid and unquestionable. Pure bullshit.
gaslight this fucking kike "already"
I think you mean gas this fucking kike already.
Jesus. I never thought I would say the words that Bill Schuette kicked ass (I've met him).
Good, can this worthless bitch be shoved back into the storm drain already?
Every time this bitch says she is doing this for "the people" I just want to punch something.
She's doing it for "the people [who voted for Hitlary]".
Fox Business News anchor(Neil Cavuto, a decent dude) had this skank on,to his credit he KEPT trying to get her nailed on WHY just THESE three states,and if it was for Hillary,she said repeatedly NO, it's for the people.He said you have no hope or reasons for doing JUST these three,IF that's why your doing it, why not several others(to which she would give no answer,OF course.)
I have never seen a woman speak faster and say less than her, and sound like a broken recorder.He finally just shut her off screen mid sentence,and cut away while she was still blathering, since it was OBVIOUS Hellary was the skank behind her, and SOROS also.
So, now that this is out of the way, we have to be concerned with PURCHASED/BRIBED Electors.
I am an past middle aged man now, and I have been through many electoral wars, NEVER in my long life have I seen the pure EVIL that this one has wrought.
I PRAY that Trump cuts funding to all these tittle sucking /spoiled ethnic minorities suckers on expensive colleges, and all the so called Sanctuary Cities.100%of all Federal funding, then we will see how long they last.
Maybe the villagers can finally put an end to the Sorosstein monster.
Grab'em by the p*ssy and hang'em high
Watch for a "Stein's Cat Emporium" coming to a location near you soon.
As well as Stein's Vodka emporium. Old crazy ladies love cats and cheap vodka..
The "Hamilton Electors". What a fitting thought that they take their name after that piece of shit Hamilton.
I am sure when someone looks at all the emails, phone conversations and confidential letters from FrankenStein, it was all a scam to bilk any idiot who donated and a conspiracy to try to start riots, violence and civil disobedience.
Think in terms of how much money we can make selling tickets and pay per view when she is burned at the stake.....
Oh, and 'faithless electors' need to be converted to 'lifeless electors'...
Melted snow flakes... Fixed it for ya.
Thats what I meant...
That smells too much like PC bullshit. Lifeless is much better
She's a Bolshevik. We need to copy the Orthodox Christians in Russia, and kik out the Bolsheviks
Soon the Insanity of Ms. Stein and the likes of the traitorous elector Mr. Surpun will end and America will move forward with Mr. Trump as the new President of The United States Of America.
All Americans, and the rest of the world, will be better off for that.
The way this Suprun jerk surrounds his name with triple ellipses on stupid twitter shows how arrogant these pricks are. They're provoking us.
https://twitter.com/TheChrisSuprun
I've already been provoked for quite some time. Trump's election is no where near enough payback in my opinion.
What? You can't just buy a recount?
Yeah, what the hell is this country coming to?
Next week Stein will suddenly "buy" a beach house as well... hey, she might be neighbors with Bernie !