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2016 Postmortem

Jersey Devil

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2. You would need a favorable lower court decision and 4, not 5 votes in SCOTUS

Reply to Chasing Dreams (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 10:56 PM

Nov 2016

A 4-4 tie in SCOTUS would affirm the lower court (Court of Appeals) decision.

Sure, anything is possible. Who would have thought the court would stop a state from counting votes in 2000? If that is possible, why not ordering other recounts?

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Lawyers: If WI Recount Reveals Count Fraud and Hillary Won, Can the Supreme Court be Petitioned [View all] Chasing Dreams Nov 2016 OP

Regardless of what the SCOTUS would do, we need hand-counted paper-ballots in EVERY STATE nikto Nov 2016 #1

word. nt TheFrenchRazor Nov 2016 #5

You would need a favorable lower court decision and 4, not 5 votes in SCOTUS Jersey Devil Nov 2016 #2

That's the right strategy, but there may not be enough time to go to a lower court first. Chasing Dreams Nov 2016 #4

We can only know the answer to that marybourg Nov 2016 #3