The recount: A noble pursuit or just a distraction?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A recount of presidential voting will begin in Wisconsin tomorrow. Michigan and Pennsylvania may be next. Is it a useless exercise or needed oversight — especially after Donald Trump's repeated warnings about a "rigged election?"
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| 0:30.4 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. A noble pursuit? Or just a distraction? |
| 0:44.9 | Hello again. I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point. Donald Trump lost the popular vote that prevailed in the |
| 0:50.7 | Electoral College. Now his claim of a rigged election has come back to haunt him. |
| 0:55.3 | Green Party candidate Jill Stein is paying for recounts in Wisconsin and possibly two other states, |
| 1:00.7 | where he won by very small margins. Trump is acting outraged, but his own often repeated warnings |
| 1:06.6 | have added to public concern about Russian hacking and voting machine malfunctions. |
| 1:11.6 | The recounts are unlikely to change the outcome. |
| 1:14.6 | Will they reveal weakness in the basic tools of democracy or distract attention from the |
| 1:19.9 | consequences of Trump's victory? |
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