I want to be clear that I am no longer on the Board of Directors or on staff with Move To Amend, although I remain am a vocal and public supporter of the organization, and also of the "We the People" Amendment they promote.
JB: I met you in late February at the election integrity conference in Philadelphia that Jill Stein organized. You gave some rousing speeches and a great workshop. I was enthused.
Many readers don't really get why Stein made such a big deal about demanding a recount in a few of the states. It's not like she was a close contender. And it didn't substantially change the "official" vote count. Some people are convinced that she must be pocketing all that money she raised. What's the real story? Tell us about this Thanksgiving weekend miracle.
DC: The Recount efforts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were for one reason and one reason only -- to ensure the integrity of the purported election result. And to be clear-- we have no way of knowing who actually won the 2016 election, because we never actually got a hand recount of the ballots.
To give you a sense of the scope of the problem, some voting machines used in Wisconsin were literally banned in California after they were shown to be highly vulnerable to hacking and malicious programming due to lacking security features. In Jill's own words:
"After a divisive and painful presidential race, reported hacks into voter and party databases and individual email accounts are causing many American to wonder if our election results are reliable. These concerns need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust." - Dr. Jill Stein.
And Jill will not receive any of the surplus funds. In fact, we are going to allow the donors themselves to determine how to allocate surplus money. To my knowledge, no other campaign in the history of campaigns-- Recounts or General Election-- has done this. It is described in detail on our website here.
As part of our commitment to transparency around recount fundraising and budgeting, the Recount 2016 team has prepared a recount budget update detailing expenses (current as of 2/20/17).
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