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Jill Stein et al v Pedro A. Cortes et al - Jill wins recount for Green Party in PA for 2016 Election
Jill Stein et al v Pedro A. Cortes et al - Jill wins recount for Green Party in PA for 2016 Election
2:16-cv-06287-PD Jury Demand
HONORABLE PAUL S. DIAMOND
PEDRO A. CORTÉS, in his official capacity as
Secretary of the Commonwealth; and JONATHAN
MARKS, in his official capacity as Commissioner
of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and
Legislation,
Gregory M. Harvey
PA Attorney ID 4445
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP
123 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19109
Phone: 215-772-7684
Fax:215-772-7620
wT.com
Ilann M. *
Andrew G. Celli, Jr.*
Alison E. Frick*
Douglas E. Liebt
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP
600 Fifth Avenue, 1Oth Floor
New York, NY 10020
Phone: 212-763-5000
Fax:212-763-5001
Email : imaazel@ecbalaw. com
* Admitted pro hac vice
Intervene filed by ALL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTORS OF
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP AND VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT
MICHAEL PENCE, DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC.,
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF
PENNSYLVANIA, VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT MICHAEL PENCE.Memorandum,
Trump et al Attorneys: Lawrence J. Tabas, I.D. No. 27815
Rebecca L. Warren, I.D. No. 63669
OBERMAYER REBMANN MAXWELL
& HIPPEL LLP
Centre Square West
1500 Market Street, Suite 3400
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 665-3158
Chad Readler*
JONES DAY
325 John H. McConnell Blvd., Ste.
600
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 469-3939
David Morrell*
JONES DAY
51 Louisiana Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 879-3939
*Admitted pro hac vice
https://ecbawm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stein.-Amended-Complaint.pdf
http://www.pacourts.us/assets/files/setting-7133/file-8370.pdf?cb=83a91b
https://timinhonolulu.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/20161206-pa-recount-docket.pdf
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057.95.1.pdf
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
JILL STEIN, RANDALL REITZ, ROBIN HOWE,
SHANNON KNIGHT, EMILY COOK, and
KIMBERLY KUPKA,
Comments
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.
Read More: https://ecbawm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stein.-Amended-Complaint.pdf