Sunday, December 4, 2016

Jill Stein Pennsylvania Recount

Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, said she would "escalate" her election recount efforts in Pennsylvania through a federal lawsuit after she told the public she would drop it but, there is a major cost to this recount. The court ruled that  all voters requesting the recount must pay a million dollar bond.  Stein said that "this request is an unacceptable barrier to democratic participation" and that "Americans deserve an election system that we can trust, and that is accurate, that is secure against hacking, against human error, against machine error, and in which the votes are being counted because right now it is not clear that all the votes are being counted." I totally agree with Stein on this topic. At this point the government can say they are going to do one thing but do another and we can't really tell if they did it or not. We are forced to trust that our government will do what they say but, I feel like there should be systems put in place so the people can actually see their vote being counted and many people feel like that this past election was an example if this. I don't know about y'all but I don't trust the government to be truthful in all they do. It seems as though they try to filter out minorities during elections in order to elect who they want constantly and this 1 million dollar bond as a prime example they are limiting participation because the minority is the only group that wants the recount to begin with but, now that they have to spend money for it most of them won't follow through with it. Therefore the recount won't occur because there is no one left that wants to pay for it. So how can we, the people, ensure that our votes are being counted and what can we do to hold the government accountable for the fairness of their actions?

 http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/03/politics/jill-stein-drops-pennsylvania-recount/index.html

2 comments:

  1. Roshard point in which the recount for the presidential election and how trump don't want to do it but he keeps saying that they cheated him out of the popular vote, also i understand when he speaks about making sure the votes are being counted for they obviously didnt matter in this election because Hilary won the popular vote and it still didnt matter

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  2. While reading this post, the statement that popped out to me most was "The court ruled that all voters requesting the recount must pay a million dollar bond. Stein said that "this request is an unacceptable barrier to democratic participation." This reminded me of our conversation in class on how we believe Republicans have to be these people filled with money, that can't benefit us and Democrats are more of the poor , middle class people that relate to us. I do not agree with that statement, but do agree with the following statement about creating equal elections for every section and preventing the hacking from happening.

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