Detroit to get new voting machines as city clerk blames state, human error

Five weeks after a national scandal involving broken Detroit voting machines and ineffective poll workers, state Elections Director Chris Thomas said Wednesday evening that the city will get all new voting machines in time for the 2017 mayoral and City Council elections.

But broken machines were not the biggest problem Detroit endured election night. Citing a memo he just received, Thomas said there were dozens of other problems that occurred Nov. 8.

“I got an e-mail yesterday from Wayne County showing me what the issues were on (Detroit) polling places and precincts, and quite frankly, it was somewhat shocking,” he said.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2016/12/15/riley-after-election-problems-detroit-get-new-voting-machines/95451122/

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Facebook Joins PBS In Censoring Jill Stein Interview

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TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton spoke with legendary activist and progressive academic Dr. Cornel West

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Federal Election Commission Certifies Federal Matching Funds for Stein

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission has certified a payment of $213,181.77 in federal matching funds to Jill Stein for President in connection with the 2016 presidential primary election. The certified amount was in response to the third regular submission for matching funds made by Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate for 2016.

To become eligible for matching funds, candidates must raise a threshold amount of $100,000 by collecting $5,000 in 20 different states in amounts no greater than $250 from any individual. Other requirements to be declared eligible include agreeing to an overall spending limit, abiding by spending limits in each state, using public funds only for legitimate campaign-related expenses, keeping financial records and permitting an extensive campaign audit.

Based on Commission certification of Jill Stein for President’s initial threshold submission for matching funds in March and the Committee’s two regular submissions in May and June, the United States Treasury made three payments totaling $242,853.62 to the campaign. The Commission has requested that the U.S. Treasury make a fourth payment of $213,181.77, bringing the total certified amount for Stein's committee to $456,035.39.

Materials included with Jill Stein for President’s submission may be viewed here.

http://www.fec.gov/press/press2016/news_releases/20160802_2release.shtml

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Donations to Jill Stein Explode Nearly 1000% Since Sanders’ Endorsement of Clinton

Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential nominee, is seeing an unprecedented surge of energy for her campaign in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

Stein, who is running her second presidential campaign in four years, said donations to her campaign have increased tenfold in just over 24 hours, obviously due to Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton and a resulting fallout from the Democratic Party.

Since Tuesday morning, the Green Party has received over $80,000 in contributions, over half of which comes from first-time donors, and half of which comes in the form of contributions under $50. Tellingly, about 615 of those contributions totalled $27, the exact number commonly trumpeted and solicited by the Sanders campaign during his revolutionary grassroots funding movement.

http://usuncut.com/politics/jill-stein-campaign-surge/

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The revolution continues: Plan 'B' for the Bernie movement

Millions of hearts were breaking today, as Bernie Sanders delivered his long expected endorsement of Hillary Clinton, with notably less enthusiasm than the passion of his usual stump speech that followed. 

Though Bernie urged his supporters to forget the past and focus on the future, we'd forget the past at our peril. We cannot forget the triumph of Bernie's campaign, and the hunger of the public for an economy that works for working people, not just the billionaires.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/287490-the-revolution-continues-plan-b-for-the-bernie

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Here's why Jill Stein thinks Bernie Sanders should leave the Democratic Party

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