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As seems to be the case on three-day weekends for me, the check-in post is a day late. Apologies for that. It's been a rollercoaster of a week with the Democrats taking the House and a lot of down-ballot races and the firing of Attorney General Sessions imperiling the Mueller investigation. It's a good reminder that we still have two more years under this regime and we're still going to have to fight every step of the way.

Thank you to everyone who voted in the election. Thank you to everyone who contributed in big ways and small to campaigns across the country. Thank you to all our overseas friends who've supported us throughout with information and encouragement. Never give up, never surrender.

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So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #20708 This week

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called my one senator
5 (50.0%)

called my other senator
5 (50.0%)

called my representative
4 (40.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
4 (40.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
7 (70.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
3 (30.0%)

participated in phone/online training
2 (20.0%)

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went to a protest
7 (41.2%)

signed up for alerts
1 (5.9%)

worked for a campaign
4 (23.5%)

VOTED!
10 (58.8%)

took care of myself
11 (64.7%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (5.9%)

did something else
8 (47.1%)

committed to action in the coming week
7 (41.2%)

tanaqui

A couple of days ago,

teaotter made a post about Jill Stein fundraising for vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The campaign has now raised sufficient funds for recounts in Wisconsin (with the Wisconin Elections Commisssion having received the recount petition on Friday 25) and Pennsylvania, where the filing deadline is Monday 28. At the time of making this post, the campaign still needed to raise around $1.1 million to fund a recount in Michigan, where the filing deadline is Wednesday 30.

Stein is also appealing for volunteers to observe the recount in each of the three states and, in the case of Pennsylvania, needs to find at least three voters in each election district willing to submit an affidavit to their county board of elections requesting a recount.

If you're interested in volunteering as an observer, or you're a voter in Pennsylvania willing to sign an affidavit, you can find out more and submit your details at the pages for each state:

Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

Hillary Clinton's campaign has also come out in support of the recount, and intends to participate "in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides", according to Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign's counsel.

teaotter

Jill Stein is fundraising to recount votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

According to The Guardian:

Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential candidate, is prepared to request recounts of the election result in several key battleground states, her campaign said on Wednesday.

Stein launched an online fundraising page seeking donations toward a $2.5m fund she said was needed to request reviews of the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

UPDATE 11/24: The fund is currently at $3.8m of a current goal of $4.5m. Stein estimates that it will cost $6-7 million all told, including attorney fees.

It's my understanding that recounts can only be requested by a candidate, and that the recount has to be funded by them. ~~I haven't been able to verify that $2.5 million is necessary (or enough; I don't know either way), but the costs had been referred to in other articles as "millions."~~ (I have more cost research below the cut, if you're interested.)

According to Stein:

Here are the fees and deadlines for each state:

Wisconsin: $1.1 million by Nov 25
Pennsylvania: $.5 million by Nov 28
Michigan: $.6 million by Nov 30

Those are filing fees alone. The costs associated with recounts are a function of state law. Attorney's fees are likely to be another $2-3 million, then there are the costs of the statewide recount observers in all three states. The total cost is likely to be $6-7 million.

One caveat: Even the statisticians who are calling for a recount say that the anomalies they've seen are probably not indicative of hacking the machines. (J. Alex Halderman: "Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked.")

But I still think that filing for a recount is the best option for knowing for sure, either way.

( my research into the recount costs )

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