Jill Stein et al v Pedro A. Cortes et al - Jill wins recount for Green Party in PA for 2016 Election

INTRODUCTION
1. The Pennsylvania election system is a national disgrace. Voters are forced to use
vulnerable, hackable, antiquated technology banned in other states, essentially relying on the
kindness of machines. That kindness is misplaced. At least some of the plaintiffs’ votes were
almost certainly not counted in the 2016 election. They were disenfranchised.
2. Compounding the problem, there is no paper trail in the majority of Pennsylvania
election districts. Voting machines are electoral black sites: No one permits voters or candidates
to examine them.
3. After election day, voters are equally helpless to make sure their votes are
counted. The Election Code requires 27,474 voters in 9,158 districts to bring notarized petitions
to county boards, in time for shifting, divergent, and secret deadlines known to no one except,
perhaps, 67 separate county election boards. In court recounts, voters must pay exorbitant fees,
and (according to boards of elections) should only one voter fail to sign a single petition in a
single district anywhere in the State, no one can seek a recount anywhere.
4. This labyrinthine, incomprehensible, and impossibly burdensome election regime
might make Kafka proud. But for ordinary voters, it is a disaster.
5. These arbitrary, unreasonable rules place an impossible burden on the right to
vote, the right to have one’s vote counted, and the right to pursue recounts in Pennsylvania. As a
result, Defendants have violated the United States Constitution.

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