and money on the Green party. My efforts to try and build that party here in my state, to connect with others who voted Green, are, as of this moment, done. I'm so tired of this circus..and now watching the party that was supposed to be the alternative for this shit asking for a recount in states that will turn this over to Clinton?

I'm so done. The democratic party is a loss and now the Green Party appears to be too. I'm all for fighting election fraud, but where the hell were these people in March?

do they think those Trump supporters are just going to quietly accept this? These people probably think they can rig it and get Hillary into office. While protests against Trump haven't been real or much of a big deal, protests against installing Hillary just might be different. The audacity of the Clinton's never ceases to amaze.

to outright cynic.

I just love that the Green Party itself hasn't mentioned it. No press release or anything from the Green Party.

And the campaign is by Jill2016 and not the Green Party.

No mention OF the green party really, I mean, in any policy or issues sense...

See, this is where my brain goes Something wrong here.

and I gladly donated to this recount effort. Election integrity efforts are very important regardless of who it benefits. How many here thought there were issues with the Democratic primary? I saw many. Don't we wish there were better systems in place? This is one step in that direction. If discrepancies are found, maybe just maybe there will be reform. For this to happen, there will need to be a significant public demand. Piggybacking on this situation is a good way to achieve this.

This might actually be a chance to pull back the curtain on the whole deal. I think Jill agreed to do it only on the condition that the Green Party runs the effort to raise money, not corporate interests. I guess the email investigations and the wikileaks are back in business. Which damn evil are we going to have to suffer under?

This confirms my suspicion that something is wrong with Jill, The Greens , or both. The VP pick never made any sense to me. It said we have no interest in growing our Party. And no interest in winning.

This is more evidence for that. Why not use the election results as a springboard to build interest and draw people away from the D Party. Yet here they are FUNDRAISING for a goddam recount. No shit the system is rigged. They have little cash as it is.

This is sad.

I received an email tonight from TrustVote.org. It looks as if the count is going to include more than just the problematic Hillary states. I agree with those who have posted above that if this shows the populace the corrupt election methods we have suffered, it may be worth it even to have Hillary as Pres. I voted for Stein and detest both Trump and Hillary, but I want our election process cleaned up and this may be the only vehicle. I'm not going to grouse one way or the other because either candidate is odorous.

Here is the quotation:

In my last letter to you, I indicated that electronic manipulation as well as the much more obvious voter suppression appears to have affected the election results of the 2016 Presidential race. I announced what might need to be accomplished to begin recounting votes in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio. I am happy to announce that the money needed to begin the recounts of Wisconsin and Michigan has been raised!

Additionally, I am also happy to announce that, as of this writing, Wednesday, posted on Jill Stein’s web page for her Recount Campaign, $794,000 has been raised (in four hours!) to pay for additional states down the line.

We are hoping that if we show proof of fraud, which we imagine we will, that Hillary might take back her concession, which is what would be a necessary step. Donations to TrustVote.org will cover the expenses of attorneys and other observers watching vote counting in these swing states.

I hope you join us in donating to TrustVote.org and to Jill’s recount campaign, which is not tax deductible. https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount

So you pays your money and takes your chance or not as the mood takes you. I will admit that I am suspicious of our corporate masters and am giving no more money to any politicians or party until I can see more clearly what is going on.

Seems the vast majority here have made up their minds that Jill sux, recount is a terrible idea, and everyone in the Green Party should eat shit and die. For the 2 or 3 people who read this who might have even the tiniest sliver of an open mind, I would most strongly recommend checking out this article from The Intercept: Donald Trump, Voting Machine Truther, Should Demand Recounts to Prove He Won.

The author, Robert Mackey, offers up some very compelling and persuasive reasons why a recount should take place.

A comprehensive audit of the vote was suggested on Wednesday by Alex Halderman, a respected researcher in computer security at the University of Michigan who explained on Medium that he has approached Hillary Clinton’s campaign with a persuasive case for at least double-checking the results in those critical states.

“We’ve been pointing out for years that voting machines are computers, and they have reprogrammable software, so if attackers can modify that software by infecting the machines with malware, they can cause the machines to give any answer whatsoever,” Halderman wrote. “I’ve demonstrated this in the laboratory with real voting machines — in just a few seconds, anyone can install vote-stealing malware on those machines that silently alters the electronic records of every vote.”

As a Tweet posted by one Erinn Clark noted: "makes no sense to oppose an election audit. many people do regular audits for reasons much smaller than verifying the integrity of democracy"

But even though Wisconsin and Michigan, and several Pennsylvania counties, “predominately use optical scan paper ballots, which can be examined to confirm that the computer voting machines produced an accurate count,” Halderman noted that no American state “is planning to actually check the paper in a way that would reliably detect that the computer-based outcome was wrong.”

For that reason, he and other experts argue, at least one of the candidates in the presidential election should exercise their right to request recounts.

So I applaud Jill Stein for once again stepping up to the plate and demonstrating that her "Integrity Quotient" is on an order of magnitude higher than any of her erstwhile competitors. And just to be clear, I would be equally, if not more strongly in favor of a recount if Hillary Clinton had been declared the winner. Of the two, I find Trump marginally less nauseating, but for me this is all about fighting for actual democracy as opposed to a demockery - which essentially describes the system currently in place.

It is important to realize that there is a clear, non-partisan case for post-election audits of voting machines to be routine, rather than exceptional, and that there are alternatives to full recounts. As Ron Rivest an M.I.T. cryptographer, and Philip Stark, a professor of statistics at Berkeley, explained in USA Today last week, carrying out what’s known as a “risk-limiting” audit, in which a random sample of just 1 percent of the paper ballots cast would be examined, “could give 95% confidence that the results are correct in every state.”

But since there is no legal procedure in place to do such an audit of this year’s results, at least one of the candidates should take action to dispel the kind of doubts about ghosts in the machines Trump expressed on election day, which only grow with each viral anecdote of computer malfunction.

It's never a wrong or inappropriate time to stand up for transparency, honesty and integrity in the voting system, which is something Jill Stein intuitively understands, even if it apparently eludes some of the hard-core Hillary haters. Oh, we didn't audit the primaries! Boo fucking hoo. That's exactly like saying: "The police didn't do jack when someone raped my daughter. So why should your daughter get treated any different?"

If that's really where you're at, I pity you.

And P.S. Jill Stein had absolutely no standing to request a recount of any of the Democratic Party primary elections, since she wasn't a participant. Bernie Sanders could have done so, but he chose not to. That fact hardly makes Jill a hypocrite.