We picked three states to target to recount, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. In PA we had to sway or pay 27,000 people in order to get a recount.
Seems illegal. https://t.co/gzvgARdcE8
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The speaker discusses the importance of three key states in the US election: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. These states had a combined total of 46 electoral votes and played a crucial role in determining the outcome of the election. In Wisconsin, the margin was around 23,000 votes, and candidates could request a recount. Michigan had a smaller margin of about 11,000 votes, and candidates could pay a fee to request a recount in specific precincts. Pennsylvania had a larger margin of 44,000 votes, but the state predominantly used paperless voting machines, making the recount process more complicated. In Pennsylvania, three citizens from each precinct wanting a recount had to post a bond and swear to fraud.
Speaker 0: Projected to be won by Clinton. All 3 of them are won by Trump. They combined for 46, electoral votes. The electoral margin was 37 votes, I believe. All 3 had margins less than, 8 tenths of a percent.
And in total, the US election was possibly decided by the 78,000 votes in these 3 states, the 78,000, margin. And moreover, we had to find states where we could actually do something. Michigan and Wisconsin allowed candidates to petition for recounts. Pennsylvania requires a court order, but we thought our chances were pretty good. So in Wisconsin, to to start us off, the margin was, just under 23,000 votes.
That's about 0.7 0.8%. The technology there is almost entirely OPSAN, and every ballot that is cast in Wisconsin has a paper record. And as I mentioned, the law any candidate can demand a recount if he or she can pay the cost. And each county in Wisconsin decides how to do the recount. You can you can recount all the votes by hand counting all the paper, or you could just run the ballots back through a machine.
And so in Wisconsin, that decision is left up to the counties. In Michigan, the margin was much smaller. It's about 11,000 votes, 0.23%. And by the way, Michigan is also where we live, so it was sort of convenient. Can.
And, again, all votes use paper. And, the law states that any aggrieved candidate can file, can pay a statutory fee in every in however many precincts he or she wants to get a recount. And then the state board of canvassers, which is the state committee that kinda decides, that runs elections, decides how the recount will be done. And finally, in Pennsylvania, the margin was a bit bigger, 44,000 votes. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania, they predominantly use paperless DREs.
So, 70% of their their votes are cast without any kind of paper record or backup at all. And the law there is very, very complicated. It says that, 3 citizens from every precinct that wants to be recounted must, post a bond, swear that there is fraud, and, you know, that's how you have to get a recount done in Pennsylvania. And, bear in mind, there are Tens of thousands of precincts in Pennsylvania. Not tens of thousands.
There are 9,000 or so precincts in Pennsylvania. So that's 27,000 people we need to to swear and pay
