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Is The Election Really Over?

So who's our president?

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Is The Election Really Over?
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Former POTUS candidate Jill Stein is raising money for a recount in three different states. Yes, a recount. The Green Paty believes that the integrity of automated voting processes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania could have potentially been compromised by Russian hackers. Which seems absurd, but I guess anything is possible. Could a recount go in Clinton's favor? The answer is yes. Folks, the election is not over yet. *insert groan here*

At the end of election night, Trump was victorious with 306 electoral college votes and Clinton had 232. Wisconsin counts for 10 electoral college votes, Pennsylvania counts for 20, and Michigan never declared who officially won their state but with how the figures looked on election night, Trump won their state. For Clinton to win this recount 46 votes would have to shift, leaving her with 278 votes and Trump with 260. The votes in these states were incredibly tight, and that is why trump is capable of winning. Wisconsin had Trump’s victory with just a 0.7 percent margin, in Pennsylvania, he was the victor by 1.2 percent, and in Michigan, the gap is a very thin at 0.3 percent. This means a swing of votes numbering just the tens of thousands would be enough to change the result of the election entirely.

Clinton's team has announced that it will participate in the Wisconsin recount to ensure fairness. Trump called the effort a "scam" aimed at filling the Green Party's "coffers." If you follow posts on social media, you would have seen President Elect Trump go on a tirade, in one of the tweets, he said he would have won the popular vote if it hadn't been for those who voted illegally. Maybe I am out of the loop somehow, but don't you have to have proof you are registered? Trump is also accusing the Green Party of staging the recount to "fill up their coffers" and condemning Clinton for reneging on her election night concession and promise to accept the results.

Ms. Stein admits that the recounts will not likely alter this election's outcome. "These recounts are part of an election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how untrustworthy the US election system is," she wrote on her website.

I guess all we can do is sit and wait to see what the outcome is, and then just maybe the election will really be over.

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