Tyler Durden – A Pennsylvania judge has denied Jill Stein’s request for a recount and simultaneously offered up an epic assault on her “later than last minute request” that “could well ensure that no Pennsylvania vote counts” by preventing the state from certifying election results by the federal deadline of December 13th.  Judge Paul S. Diamond also blasted Stein’s “suspicion of a ‘hacked’ Pennsylvania election” saying that it “border[ed] on the irrational.”

Dr. Stein has repeatedly stated that she has sought a Pennsylvania recount to ensure that every vote counts.Granting her later than last minute request for relief, however, could well ensure that no Pennsylvania vote counts. Such a result would be both outrageous and completely unnecessary; as I have found, suspicion of a “hacked” Pennsylvania election borders on the irrational. Finally, Plaintiffs’ claims for relief suffer from several flaws, each fatal to their Motion. For all these reasons, I will deny that Motion.

Diamond noted six separate reasons for denying Stein’s recount request, including a lack of “credible evidence,” a lack of standing, an “unexplained, highly prejudicial delay in seeking a recount,” and the fact that pursuing the recount would only end up “inexcusably disenfranchising some six million Pennsylvania voters” as it would prevent the state from certifying it’s election results by the December 13th federal deadline. Continue reading →