
It is now officially OK to call it "Jill Stein's recount effort." It's not the Stein/Baraka campaign that is spearheading the requests, since Ajamu Baraka has stated quite explicitly that he does not support it. It's not the Green Party's effort either, and it never was: The National Steering Committee voted against it, 5-3 with one abstention. Dr. Margaret Flowers, Green nominee for US Senate in Maryland, is one of many Green who spoken vigorously in opposition; plenty of candidates, as well as rank-and-file Greens, have approved of it.
Even some within the party are suspicious about the recent revelation that the Wisconsin recount will cost more than originally stated*—suspicious, that is, of Stein herself, not of the Wisconsin Secretary of State's Office and its attempted extortion. I feel for Stein, trying to do the right thing, getting jerked around by state officials, and feeling nibbles on her bum from people who were her staunchest allies mere weeks ago.