Jill Stein eying recount in three states?

vaspider:

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autismserenity:

salarta:

liberalshill:

Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein may be eyeing a recount in three states.

Political observers on Wednesday noticed Stein had launched a fundraising page on her website for a recount.

“After seeing compelling evidence of voting anomalies, the Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections. With your help, are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania– three states where the data suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals,” the page reads.

It goes on to say the group needs to raise “over $2 million by this Friday, 4pm central,” to ensure a recount.

This has to be for Hillary Clinton since there’s no way she’d call for an audit herself. Jill Stein knows good and well she didn’t win any states.

From CNN: “The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday.”

You can donate here, if you’d like.

Reblogging here to get word out as fast as possible. Donations to the fund for a recount are needed by THIS FRIDAY by 4 PM CT.

Even if you feel in any way uncertain about this, isn’t it better to donate the money and it go to nothing, than to not donate and find out something that could’ve been done wasn’t due to lack of funds?

So the deal as I understand it is:

* If Clinton were to call for a recount in any state, and the recount in that state did NOT turn out to elect her in that state instead, she would be required to pay the cost of the recount in that state.

* They do that to keep people from just vengefully, constantly demanding recounts for no reason.

* There’s plenty of reason to check those states out, although the CNN article may not have the correct info; the details, from the election security experts who have been trying to get Clinton’s team to ask for a recount, are right here. 

* When it says Wednesday here, it means today. As I write this. November 23rd. (Awww, it’s also the 53rd anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who! ANYWAY)

* When I first saw the call for donations, it was at $45,000 out of their $2,500,000 goal. An hour or two later, it was at $80,000.

* It’s been less than 12 hours and they’re now up to $1.3 MILLION, more than halfway to their goal.

* They’re actually going to pull this off.

* I am not going to look it up for each state (you can google “who can ask for a recount in Wisconsin” or wherever but WI has a whole book about it and no thanks), but it looks like yes, Jill Stein can in fact ask for a recount. In Michigan, you have to be one of the people who ran, and lost, to ask for a recount. That seems to be standard practice.

* If Jill Stein calls for a recount, she DEFINITELY has to be the one to pay for it, since there is no fucking way it’s going to be like “Hey, guys, Jill Stein actually won!”

* I honestly think this is amazing. Even if it doesn’t work.

* Because this means that there were like… unless there are other third-party candidates that were on all three states’ ballots, there were probably only three people on this earth who had the ability to call for a recount. Two people with the interest. And one who is actually doing it.

* And for the first time in history, there is actually a way for everyone who wants this to immediately find out that it’s possible and throw money into the pot.

* Everything Trump is already doing is so fucking horrible, and the only saving grace is how incredibly hard people are organizing around every. freaking. single. thing. Again, we’ve never simultaneously had an election like this here, and an organizing tool like the internet, and it’s just.

I have multiple friends who are spontaneously posting to Facebook with shit like, “I am horrified that it has taken this kind of election for me to finally start hearing through my white privileged ears. I was not in action. I was complacent. No more.” (actual quote from a middle aged, upper-middle-class, straight cis white woman in Minnesota)

People who were already radical are now even more radical. There’s a powerful shift happening, and powerful communities being built.

I’m seeing people come together to support projects and nonprofits and communities and issues that were already SUPER necessary, that they are finally realizing desperately need support. Doing things that were always needed, that now they perceive as an emergency and want to do anything to fix.

Everything is so horrifying, but this gives me so much hope in the middle of it.

Like, earlier today I was crying because Trump announced he was going to eliminate funding for NASA to study climate change because he thinks it’s “politicized” science.

Now I’m crying because I’m so moved by all of these people giving whatever they can to make sure there is a recount in the most important states. By the visible evidence that we’re a real force now; that people aren’t just committed at a “tweeting/reblogging about it” level, people are like, NO. WE FUCKING STOP THIS NOW.

* And in the time it took me to write this, they’re now at more than $1.4 million.

@vaspider 

I put my two cents in the kitty to help with a recount in my state. I never thought I’d say this but:

Good for Jill Stein.

#RECOUNT2016

choncegiving:

If anyone is currently confused on what’s happening, JILL STEIN (in a shocking turn of events, I know) has put together a campaign to raise enough money to call for a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 

Very recently, a number of analysts have reached out to the Clinton campaign to urge them to request a recount. Why? 

• US intelligence has recently admitted Russian hackers were able to intrude into some electronic voting systems. This alone should be grounds for a recount.
  
• Trump won Wisconsin by 0.7%, Pennsylvania by 1.2%, and Michigan by 0.3%. All of these states showed disproportionate voting results in Trump’s favor in areas that counted ballots by electronic methods
• It was almost statistically improbably for Trump to win Florida like he did, as he would have had to win around 70% of the same-day vote
• Things just aren’t adding up

THE STEIN CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO RAISE $2 MILLION BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH AT 5 PM EST. THIS IS VERY TIME SENSITIVE. She’s already raised quite a bit in just a few hours, but that doesn’t guarantee that she will get enough. Here’s a direct statement from the website:

THE LINK TO DONATE IS HERE. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD EVEN IF YOU CAN’T DONATE. WE DESERVE TO HAVE THE VOTE CONFIRMED. THIS CAN AND WILL BE DONE. 

gudram:

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weirdfairytales:

Yo can I just say I’m really glad Yuuri told Victor about Makkachin right away?

Like, I am continuously amazed by the maturity with which Yuri!!! on Ice handles Victor and Yuuri’s relationship.

The way it was set up, with Yuuri’s sister calling him rather than Victor, Yuuri had the option to not tell Victor about Makkachin until after his free skate. It would be a source of drama, and for a split second there, it seemed very possible that Yuuri would do that, but then something wonderful happened: Yuuri remembered his own dog.

It was only shown on screen for a second, but you could tell that Yuuri was remembering what it was like to lose his dog, and then, because he didn’t want Victor to have to experience that kind of pain, he tells Victor without hesitation that he needs to go back to Japan, even if it meant he wouldn’t be there for Yuuri’s free skate. He does this because that’s what mature people do in dire circumstances such as these, when they truly love each other.

Yuuri actively decided to put Victor before himself, because Victor is much more important to him than his skating career.

Yuri on Ice ep 8