密歇根新闻广播 重新计票也不会改变大选结果 特朗普依然是赢家

 

As you may have heard, Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, is asking for a recount of the vote in the three key states that decided¹ the election – Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and our own state of Michigan, which was the closest of all.

The Clinton campaign, or whatever remains² of it, doesn't hold out any real hope that the outcome will change, but supports the recounts, on the ground the public ought to be assured of the integrity of the process.

The apparent President-elect and his supporters are denouncing the effort with such venom³ that it almost makes you think they're afraid they might lose.

State Republican Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, whose nominee⁴ had said he might not accept the outcome if he lost, urged the recount be abandoned because Hillary Clinton "said she would accept the results of the election."

Scott Hagerstrom, the state's Trump⁵ campaign chair and a man who is trying to take her job, has a difficult hoop⁶ to jump through, since his candidate made the utterly⁷ ridiculous claim that he would have won the popular vote, except for massive fraud that allowed millions of illegal immigrants to vote. That should make a recount desirable.

But in the Orwellian irrationalism typical of everything having to do with Trump, Hagerstrom said yesterday that his man's talk of illegal voting doesn't extend to Michigan, or presumably any other state Trump actually won.

Well, here's the non-Orwellian truth of the matter. There's nothing legally or morally wrong with recounts; it is probably a good idea to reassure⁸ people about the integrity of the process.

However, any recount is not going to change the outcome. Donald Trump won Michigan. Personally, I wish that were not the case.

But I know something about our vote-counting operation. There may indeed be some very small errors. But Michigan counts clean, as past recounts have shown. Sixteen years ago, Dianne Byrum lost a seat in Congress to Mike Rogers by 160 votes out of 290,000 cast.

She asked for a recount – but abandoned it before it was finished when it became clear that not enough votes were changing to give her a chance at victory. Democratic Governor Soapy Williams was reelected by barely a thousand votes statewide in 1950, and a major recount began.

But Republicans abandoned that recount when it became clear the outcome wasn't going to change.

This year, Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes, and there's no way a recount will reverse that. There were, however, more than 84,000 voters who were recorded as having not cast a vote at all, and Democrats⁹ wonder if some meant to, but their votes weren't recorded, as indeed happened in that famous disputed Bush-Gore election in Florida.

By the way, even if a recount did change the outcome in Michigan, Clinton would still need recounts to do the same in Wisconsin and in Pennsylvania, where she is behind by nearly 70,000 votes, and there's no way a margin¹⁰ that large will change.

But this has been a traumatic election.

Absentee ballots¹¹ are still being counted, and Clinton's nationwide popular vote margin is nearing two and a half million. There's something wrong with this system, and we need to be satisfied that there's integrity in the vote counting process, at least.

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 venom   

n.毒液，恶毒，痛恨

参考例句：

• The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.毒蛇咬住猎物之后马上注入毒液。
• In fact,some components of the venom may benefit human health.事实上，毒液的某些成分可能有益于人类健康。

4 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

5 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

6 hoop   

n.（篮球）篮圈，篮

参考例句：

• The child was rolling a hoop.那个孩子在滚铁环。
• The wooden tub is fitted with the iron hoop.木盆都用铁箍箍紧。

7 utterly   

adv.完全地，绝对地

参考例句：

• Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
• I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。

8 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

9 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

11 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》