Via Billy Penn:

A candidate can’t actually file for a vote recount under Pennsylvania law. Instead, they would have to challenge a county board regarding its vote computations, and a state appeals judge would have to rule that a statewide recount is necessary. That means the Clinton campaign would either have to request a recount by petition in every voting district or present a prima facie case showing voter fraud. (Prima facie is a lower threshold than beyond a reasonable doubt. A judge would just have to rule that fraud probably occurred in order to call for a recount.)

The deadline for recount in Pennsylvania is tomorrow. It is unclear how Stein believes she will be able to do what is required by that deadline.

Michigan requires at least an allegation of fraud when the difference is over 2,000 votes.

The petition must allege that the candidate is “aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake in the canvass of the votes by the inspectors of election or the returns.” Mich. Comp. Laws 168.879(1).

Neither the Stein campaign or the Clinton campaign has been able to present any evidence that any fraud occurred. In fact, the Clinton campaign admitted when joining in the recount in Wisconsin that there had been nothing found so far.

The Obama administration also made stated that they were was no evidence of any cyber hacking of which they were aware, seeming to cut down the potential fishing expedition of the Stein campaign.

In Pennsylvania, where machines are ancient, not connected to the internet and would have to be individually accessed to change results, it seems even more unlikely.

As Billy Penn notes:

What should be most troubling for Clinton supporters who want her to ask for a Pennsylvania recount is that in the past, these recounts have yielded a shift of just a couple hundred votes, certainly not enough to overturn anything in Pennsylvania. Clinton’s team would have to rely on proving massive voter fraud enough for a Pennsylvania court to rule the entire state invalid — an unprecedented and nearly impossible feat.

The difference in Pennsylvania is over 70,000 votes, Michigan over 10,000 and Wisconsin over 22,000.

Pennsylvania is not going to be overturned and Hillary Clinton needs all three states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to be overturned to win.

Stein stated yesterday that she will file for a recount in any state whose deadline had not yet passed, given the money.

Sounds like she’s found the gravy train and wants to continue its ride….

HT: Puhiawa