RE: Jill Stein May Actually Have a Strategy to Change the Result of the Presidential Election
Respectfully, that position is completely wrong. If the recount is not completed in time, the votes of each state stand as is:
That seems to be populated by Edward Foley, an expert in election law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. That is very misleading. Yes the absolute deadline is Dec. 19th, 2016 when electors around the country must meet to cast their Electoral College votes. However, whatever the vote is on the 13th stands. Foley said: “That is a hard deadline and if a state were to miss that deadline, it would be technically in jeopardy of not having its electoral votes counted.” The likelihood of that would be below ZERO. A recount would by no means prevent that vote on the 19th. In fact, if the recount were not completed in time, then the people’s vote stands. Therefore, if the recount is not finished by the 13th, then the electors must vote accordingly.
Thanks for the heads up. I actually read Armstrong's blog regularly, but hadn't seen that one yet. I'm going to leave this post as-is for now because I'm still not 100% certain on whether old Martin is correct, but I upvoted your comment to bump it to the top of the comments section. Regardless of the outcome or the strategy behind this, it would seem that Stein's motives are suspect to put it mildly.