For all the sturm and drang on this and other sites about the value (or lack thereof) behind the Stein campaign’s push to get a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, it always generally seemed to me like an expensive, futile effort, but still worth supporting because there’s no harm in ensuring that the voting process was appropriately carried out.
But now the GOP is screaming holy hell, from the President-Elect on down, and stopping at nothing to halt the recounts, with just today’s latest news that the Michigan Attorney General is going to bring a case to that state’s Supreme Court in hopes of stalling and running out the clock before their December 13 deadline.
It begs the question: What are they so afraid of?
If the state laws allowed for exactly what the Stein campaign did, and all that is intended by those laws is to ensure the accuracy of the vote and to give candidates an opportunity to ensure that the process was fairly conducted, why the heck is the GOP trying to stop the recount requests?
It starts to make me think that there’s actually *there* there. That there’s actually something genuinely sinister at play. That perhaps all of those polls — you know how every single poll of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania showed Clinton winning, and by decent margins — might actually have been closer to accurate than we think.