The great Clintonstein recount scam may be rolling on but the Team Hillary has been dealt a blow when the prized Philadelphia area didn’t change the results by much. Heavily black Philly has been a Democratic Party stronghold, a key brick in the fabled but now dismantled “blue wall” but once the recount was over, Mrs. Clinton only gained five votes.

According to Pennsylvania blogger Billy Penn “The Philly recount is done, and it didn’t help Hillary much at all”:

The great Philadelphia recount has ended, and Hillary Clinton got five more votes than she had in her previous total. Donald Trump’s number stayed the same, as did the totals for Independent candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein after the City Commissioners Office recounted votes in 75 of Philadelphia’s more than 1600 voting divisions. The recount had been launched by 250-plus Philadelphia residents answering the call of Stein, who asked for three petitioners in each of Pennsylvania’s voting district to file recounts to assist in her attempts to get a statewide recount through a Commonwealth Court and then Federal Court lawsuit.

More importantly, the Philadelphia recount didn’t uncover any evidence of “Russian” meddling:

Stein’s camp had planned on using the district-level recounts as possible evidence for hacking or fraud. The recount turned up no instances of fraud or hacking here, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said, emphasizing the difficulty of hacking voting machines that aren’t connected to the internet. “We have very primitive voting machines here,” he said. “Our voting system is only vulnerable to individual cases of voting fraud, as we’ve seen. Whenever it does occur it would be someone going in and voting for somebody else or an election board manually adding votes, which is an entirely different thing than hacking.” The five extra votes for Clinton, he said, came from paper provisional or absentee ballots that were undetected by the optical scanner that counted votes in the days following the election. Schmidt said this can happen when people don’t mark their choices clearly on paper ballots or, ridiculous as it sounds, use a green highlighter instead of a pen or pencil.

It’s time for this farce to end or at the very least be acknowledged as what it is – a Clinton backed attempt to sow seeds of doubt about Donald Trump’s win in order to poach or intimidate enough electors to either put Hillary into the White House or throw the election into the House of Representatives. The latter is a ghastly possibility and believe it or not – at least according to Politico – none other than Never Trumper John Kasich’s name is being bandied about as an alternative.

Meanwhile, the counts go on in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Originally published at Downtrend.com