BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, December 5, 2016 - On a day when the recount of the vote in the Presidential Election, set now to take place in three states - all of which must have their results overturned for these recounts to have any meaning - actually started or continued in two of the states, while the count in the third state seemed ever more unlikely to ever take place. The recount in Wisconsin started late last week while the recount in Michigan started today. Preliminary results in Wisconsin show that the winner, Donald Trump, has actually widened his lead over his closest runner-up, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, the candidate who filed for the recount saw her numbers go nowhere, a result expected by analysts, and she had to fend off serious questions about her motives during an appearance on Fox News.
Jill Stein, the Green Party Candidate who has filed for the three state recounts - Pennsylvania is the third state - rejected suggestions that her motive for filing the recount was merely to raise money and raise her personal profile amongst the electorate. She denied this and stated, without offering proof or specifics, that all money contributed to her recount fund will be placed in a segregated account that can only be used to pay for expenses associated with the recounts. Stein finished fourth in virtually every state.
A state judge in Pennsylvania passed a final order rejecting Stein's bid for a recount in that state. Stein concedes that she missed the deadline for filing for a recount in Pennsylvania. Her supporters say they will file an action in federal court seeking to force the state to recount despite the fact that she missed the filing deadline. She offered no specifics to Chris Wallace, the Fox News reporter asking the questions, as to what her theory will be in the federal action, but analysts gave it little chance for success. She did file the action in the court of a federal judge appointed to the bench President Barack Hussein Obama.
Over the weekend supporters of Hillary Clinton began to distance themselves from Stein's efforts, even though Stein denied that she was merely a functionary of the Clinton Campaign.
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