Our 161,000 grassroots donors will decide where to send #Recount2016's surplus through the democratic process of Ranked Choice Voting. pic.twitter.com/nxTFAZOya0

— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) December 17, 2016

Jill Stein has been a personal hero of mine ever since 2012 when she courageously was willing to get arrested 4 times for progressive causes. She was even tied to a chair to prevent her from trying to get into the Debates.

.@DemocracyNow segment w/ presidential candidate Jill Stein, who was zip-tied to metal chair for 8 hrs during debate http://t.co/m0qjaHaL

— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) October 17, 2012

I voted for her then and again this year.

Some in her own party opposed the recount project because among other things they they feared it might benefit Clinton, however after reading this report I am glad to see that the work has shed daylight and produced some quite important revelations which should be used to make changes going forward:
Here's a great Alternet piece on the Recount effort

Recount Fiascos Reveal the Profoundly Pathetic State of Voting in America
The Pennsylvania legal fight continues, but lessons are learned about how states don't verify the vote.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
December 13, 2016

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After several weeks, $7.3 million in donations from 161,000 donors, obstruction by top Republicans and Democrats, election officials who rejected the most accurate recount procedures, slights against communities of color where voting machines broke on Election Day but recounts were blocked afterward, new hacking pathways discovered, and unyielding responses by state and federal judges who didn’t think much of recounting votes or using best practices, Stein announced Tuesday that her presidential recount was mostly over—and now America needed to heed its lessons.

“What we are saying is simply that we have a right to a verified vote, and to a voting system that is accurate, secure and just,” Stein said. “There is enormous evidence that kind of voting system, which is accurate, secure and just, does not exist. You can look, for example, at the 87 [electronic ballot scanning] voting machines that failed in Detroit. This kind of mechanical failure is highly concentrated in communities of color. In fact, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has said that the odds of your vote being miscounted or discounted are 900 percent greater in communities of color. This isn’t some hypothetical. This has been demonstrated over and over.”

Stein and the recount’s leaders and lawyers held a press conference to discuss the lessons learned on Tuesday, even as they are pursuing a federal lawsuit against Pennsylvania for what they say are its unconstitutional actions to stymie a recount. In Michigan, the Trump campaign and top GOP state officials forced its recount to shut down, even though it was not recounting all the paper ballots. Only Wisconsin finished, after more than tripling its fee and then failing to hand-count ballots in the most controversial jurisdictions.

Stein’s unprecedented multi-state effort revealed faulty machinery that is error-prone and vulnerable to tampering and hacking; bureaucratic hurdles and out-of-date state laws that created absurdly high barriers to recounts; and red flags that communities of color were disenfranchised. It sought but was blocked from examining the software and “forensics” of electronic voting, even as the outgoing White House ordered a new review of Russian interference in the election, including hacking. Indeed, activists observing the recount found new ways to access key vote-counting nodes—cellular modems—but were ignored by officials and most press.

Hope you get time to read the rest of the post which includes the interesting tale of how she never imagined that so many would respond with so much funding of the effort.

Important was the section dealing with 'Electoral Jim Crow' in Detroit truly disgusting:

Mel Figueroa, press director for the Stein campaign, said Detroit showcased an "electoral Jim Crow” that was a microcosm of issues seen in communities of color since Florida’s recount in 2000, Ohio’s and New Mexico’s recounts in 2004, and other states since, including the 2016 election.

“What we are talking about is mass disenfranchisement of voters of color in poorly served, under-resourced communities that have long been subject to many issues in regards to voting and have long expressed concerns,” she said. “Even before the voting booth, voters of color are subjected to restrictive voter ID laws, felony disenfranchisement, purged from the voter rolls by interstate Crosscheck [a GOP-run interstate program] and subject to long lines due to the closing of polling places in minority communities. What we have since found after people have gone to the voting booth is that many, many votes are simply deemed spoiled or not counted.”

Also goes into some history on the Green Party recount in New Mexico and Ohio in 2004 which led to the banning of black box voting machines, and also reminds us of what happened in Florida and how important that turned out to be.

Now it turns out that Detroit may get new voting machines as a result of the work of the recount effort. Also talks about efforts in Austin and Los Angeles to make systems that work.

Integrity of the Vote is worth fighting for.

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission said the odds of your vote being miscounted—or discounted—are 900 percent greater in communities of color.

— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) December 16, 2016

Thanks, Jill.