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The Jill Stein 2016 Presidential Recount Case

Full Name: Stein et. al. v. Pedro A. Cortes et al., No. 16-CV-6287 (PD)

The Firm represented presidential candidate Jill Stein to champion a recount of the 2016 Pennsylvania federal vote. The lawsuit challenged Pennsylvania’s use of paperless voting systems, as well as its byzantine, anti-voter recount procedures. The sweeping settlement improves Pennsylvania’s election system by requiring the state to provide voter-verifiable paper ballots to all voters by 2020, and automatic, robust, statewide election audits by 2022.

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“It gives you the illusion that candidates and voters can seek a recount, but in reality they couldn’t,” said Ilann Maazel, a partner in the New York law firm that led Stein’s recount efforts

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