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发帖数: 6571 | 1 FEC Complaint Alleges Jill Stein is Serving as Front for Clinton Campaign in
Recount Effort
by Chris White | 6:36 pm, November 30th, 2016
The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint with the Federal
Elections Commission on Wednesday that alleges Jill Stein is allowing her
campaign to be used as a front for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the
recount effort. Stein has denied those allegations.
This was all set in motion over the weekend beginning with Clinton campaign
’s attorney, Mark Elias, writing a lengthy blog post that explained how the
Clinton campaign received hundreds of calls to “investigate claims that
the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage
Secretary Clinton.” He detailed the exhaustive measures the campaign
undertook to investigate these allegations and said they ultimately
concluded they “had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or
outside attempts to alter the voting technology.”
Once Stein announced her intent to challenge the results, Elias said the
campaign planned to monitor the recount and would participate in order to “
ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.” On
Tuesday, the Clinton campaign made good on its promise and filed a motion to
intervene as a formal party in the Stein recount lawsuit.
That background essentially provides the underlying basis for the FEC
complaint that was filed by the GOP on Wednesday.
“It is concerning that the Stein campaign would position itself to front
and fund a recount attempt that only serves the interest of a desperate and
defeated Clinton campaign,” the complaint states. “Further, it is
incredibly disturbing that given these asymmetrical interests, the Clinton
campaign would readily begin organizing around the effort in order to
capitalize on the chaos created by this attempt to undermine the integrity
of Wisconsin’s elections process.”
The complaint further alleges that given the little perceivable benefit to
Stein (who is down by nearly 1.4 million votes) the synchronized efforts
between the two campaigns “raises a severe specter of illegal coordination.”
The GOP argues Stein’s actions are essentially a coordinated $3.5 million
expenditure on behalf of the Clinton campaign, in excess of the $2,000
amount allowed by federal campaign donations laws.
“The recount effort is non-partisan and Stein is not coordinating with any
other campaign. Any allegations to the contrary are fabrications. The FEC
complaint is nothing but a PR stunt to push a false narrative that will
ultimately have no impact on the recount in Wisconsin,” David Cobb,
Campaign Manager for the Jill Stein campaign said in a statement provided to
LawNewz.com.
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/fec-complaint-alleges-jill-stein-is-serving-as-front-for-clinton-campign-in-recount-effort/ |
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