What did the recounts accomplish? Basically they notarized the bottom line by showing that US elections are unverifiable kabuki and currently there's no effective remedy. Which is something.

It just seems like it faded away. Granted there's a lot of other stuff to cover, and major news with Russian hacking, but still, a lot of big issues like voter suppression seemingly went uncovered with the post-election news cycle.

... is treason... period

Greg Palast is a hack who reports suppositions as facts and leaves out important details. For example all his talk about undervotes for President in Michigan leaves out the minor detail that write-in candidates who aren't official candidates don't get counted. So if Democrats/liberals in Michigan wrote in say Bernie Sanders, that would be reported as no-vote for President.

There's a reason all of these sort of stories come out right after the election and fade. Because it's easy to sell clicks when people are caught up in the outcome, but the lack of actual substance behind it means there is no good follow up. The people like Palast can't follow up and say "oops there was nothing there" because then they look like frauds. The real media already disregarded it because it wasn't a real story.

1. there was "interference" in the election by russians, and quite possibly their american stooges, and 2. american election officials subverted any meaningful hand/eye recount. you are free to conclude that this means the election was totally legit; other people may disagree.

suppression?

it being faulty:

off the story. they are in it for the money and if this stuff was proven, it'd be pure headline gold for months.

from the Washington Post, March 29, 2016:

New evidence that gives insights into this issue has been gathered by the Electoral Integrity Project. This independent research project is funded by the Australian Research Council’s Laureate award with a team of researchers based at the University of Sydney and Harvard University.

The 2015 annual Year in Election report compares the risks of flawed and failed elections, and looks at how well countries around the world meet international standards. The report gathers assessments from over 2,000 experts to evaluate the perceived integrity of all 180 national parliamentary and presidential contests held between July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2015 in 139 countries worldwide. These include 54 national elections held last year.

Forty experts were asked to assess each election by answering 49 questions The overall 100-point Perceptions of Electoral Integrity (PEI) index is constructed by summing up the responses.



This chart compares and contrasts the overall 100-point PEI index for all elections held since 2012 in the Western democracies covered in the survey. In the U.S., this covers both the 2012 presidential elections and the 2014 Congressional contests.

In both countries there are now conservative governments and eerily close elections like Brexit which I have to be suspicious of given the proven capacity of both countries to rig elections, gin up shooting wars and generally wreak havoc.

I wonder how much this affected the outcome:
"complaints from Detroit election officials who said 87 optical scanner voting machines failed on Election Day, along with other documented vote count and ballot handling irregularities."

There's a reasonable chance that "ballot irregularities" in Detroit benefited Hillary Clinton as it appears that damaged optical scanners in Detroit overcounted jammed ballots that had to be re-inserted. A hand recount of paper ballots will likely cost Clinton votes as these machines were in overwhelmingly Democratic precincts.

So whether or not anyone celebrates, it is the right time, especially if it minimizes future issues. If nothing else, it potentially demonstrates that paper ballots are no magic solution, in fact that they may be easier to hack than anyone other form of ballots, if all it takes to re-insert them. The obvious solution is a ballot reader than does not allow the same ballot to be inserted again.

It doesn't matter what happened at this point. No one is going to fix it and make it better. No one is going to overturn the election. We're stuck with Orange Hitler and we should get out of this postmortem swamp and start planning to overthrow the king.

going to get worse. the repugs will do ANYTHING to beat dems, even if it means allowing russians to hack/control our elections.

Totally agree with you

I don't trust a tRumputin DOJ to investigate Dem reported voter suppression or voter disenfranchisement etc. It IS going to get MUCH worse. Some of my friends disagree with me, and say I'm being negative. Some "think" that we'll get out in enough numbers to "vote the bums out" when things go off the rails in the next few years. I mean, them not even that a tRumputin DOJ wouldn't double down on voter suppression, more cross checking, voter purging, and "allow" God knows WHO else to hack into or tamper with Dem voting machines in 2018 which would make SURE that the Senate goes to a rethug 60 seat majority for their side is just--no words for it actually.

I STILL love my buddies , but they're living in La La land.

and we finally know at long last that the media is a right wing operation, and we are all better off ignoring them.

we're screwed

Rather, it was a hundred cuts with a Swiss Army Knife, just enough to bleed our liberty to death.