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iluvtennis

(20,903 posts)
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 03:22 AM Dec 2016

Philadelphias voluntary recount can trigger automatic Pennsylvania statewide recount

http://www.palmerreport.com/news/philadelphias-recount-automatic-pennsylvania-statewide/341/

Even as third party candidate Jill Stein continues to mount a legal battle to force a statewide recount in Pennsylvania, the voting totals in the state have been wildly fluctuating since election day. Pennsylvania first claimed that Donald Trump had won the state by more than seventy thousand votes, but has now reduced that total to fewer than fifty thousand. As such, Philadelphia is now engaging in a voluntary recount. And under state law, if the results in Philadelphia shift by a certain margin, it will trigger an automatic statewide recount.

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Ahead of the Philly recount, the statewide vote totals have been shifted as various precincts have found more votes they missed the first time, or corrected errors, such that Donald Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania is now around 0.8%.

Under state law, if that drops to 0.5%, Pennsylvania will be legally required to hold an automatic statewide recount. Officials in the state would not be able to stop it from happening, even if they opposed it. Nor would Donald Trump be able to stop the recount by going to court
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Philadelphias voluntary recount can trigger automatic Pennsylvania statewide recount (Original Post) iluvtennis Dec 2016 OP
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Dec 2016 #1
KIck. lamp_shade Dec 2016 #2
Nice. tanyev Dec 2016 #3
About 4% of Philly precincts will be recounted SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #4
What is the margin of shift required? lonestarnot Dec 2016 #5
if the margin drops from 47k to 30k, that's 0.8% to 0.5% CreekDog Dec 2016 #6
Everybody go to sleep tonight visioning .3%... .3%... .3%... JudyM Dec 2016 #7
Thanks, iluv. Rec, nT. Mc Mike Dec 2016 #8
Fingers crossed..... AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #9

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,381 posts)
4. About 4% of Philly precincts will be recounted
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 10:48 AM
Dec 2016

And they're doing it because voters filed petitions. They didn't just up and volunteer to do a full recount of the entire county.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
6. if the margin drops from 47k to 30k, that's 0.8% to 0.5%
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 01:45 PM
Dec 2016

already dropped from over 70k to 47k.

watch closely!

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