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Pennsylvania recount suit dropped after failure to raise $1m bond

Pennsylvania recount suit dropped after failure to raise $1m bond
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The Green Party has dropped its Pennsylvania recount suit making what was an incredibly small chance of overturning the election results now an impossibility.

The Green Party has dropped its Pennsylvania recount suit making what was an incredibly small chance of overturning the election results now an impossibility.

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A hearing scheduled for Monday was cancelled after lawyers for Jill Stein, the Green party’s presidential nominee who spearheaded the ballot review campaigns said they could not afford a one million dollar bond ordered by the court.

Stein called for recounts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin where president-elect Donald Trump claimed narrow victories to explore whether voting machines had been tampered with.

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