Donald Trump lost the popular vote, but prevailed in the Electoral College. Now his claim of a "rigged" election has come back to haunt him. Green Party candidate Jill Stein is paying for recounts in Wisconsin and possibly two other states where he won by very small margins. Trump is acting outraged, but his own, often repeated, warnings have added to public concern about Russian hacking and voting-machine malfunctions. The recounts are unlikely to change the outcome. Will they reveal weakness in the basic tools of democracy or distract attention from the consequences of Trump's victory?
A noble pursuit or just a distraction?
More
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on judge rejecting Stein's request for hand recount in Wisconsin
- Kilgore on Trump threatening to make GOP the party of permanent voter suppression
- Dill on why online voting is a danger to democracy
- Berman on Trump's lies about voter fraud are a prelude to voter suppression
Credits
Guests:
- Craig Gilbert - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - @wisvoter
- Ed Kilgore - political columnist at New York Magazine, and former Democratic strategist - @ed_kilgore
- David Dill - Stanford University / Verified Voting - @VerifiedVoting
- Ari Berman - senior reporter for Mother Jones, author of “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America” - @AriBerman