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Attempts at citizen oversight of our elections continue as the Jill Stein campaign fights for 'recounts' in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, while Wisconsin announces that Stein will have to pay $3.5 million to even begin counting paper ballots in the state. That, after the figure was initially believed to be $1 million for a statewide recount, because state law has been changed to allow counties to use computers to 'recount' ballots, rather than hand-counts. As we report today, similar barriers are often erected to block citizen oversight of elections, setting up the question again: What good are hand-marked paper ballots if nobody is actually allowed to count them? But the situation is far worse in Pennsylvania, where voters in most of the state are forced to vote on 100 percent unverifiable touch-screen systems and the state's insane 'recount' laws require tens of thousands of voters to file affidavits requesting such counts. Marybeth Kuznik of VotePA.us joins us to explain what is now going on in the Keystone state towards that end, as well as the nearly-incomprehensible insanity of the state's voting systems and unbelievable arcane 'recount' laws...