What will Jill Stein gain from the recount?
Answer by Ward Chanley:
In the short term? Absolutely nothing.
But you’re working under the assumption that the Stein campaign is only working from a short-term-gain basis. As with other efforts to reform the electoral process, including things like challenging restrictive debate access, and ballot access minimums, and advocating for ranked choice voting, the Stein campaign is calling for a recount in the interests of remaking the entire electoral process, and moving away from the anti-democratic, corporatist corruption that influences too much of our electoral system, presently.
As the campaign itself says,
Despite the many rumors swirling on the Internet, the Stein/Baraka campaign genuinely believes in the power of grassroots democracy. Independently funded candidates like Jill Stein cannot stand a chance if our electoral system is rigged in favor of establishment, corporate-funded candidates.
The recount is specifically aligned with the current Green Party platform, which calls for:
…”publicly-owned, open source voting equipment [deployed] across the nation to ensure high national standards, performance, transparency and accountability; [use of] verifiable paper ballots; and [institution of] mandatory automatic random precinct recounts to ensure a high level of accuracy in election results.”
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