Wisconsin recount set to begin Thursday

“Serious bias – big problem!” he followed up later.

Stein initially set a fundraising goal of $2.5 million.

Pence is said to be among those backing Romney for State. “If it’s not connected to the internet, in theory, you can not tamper with it over the internet”. In New Hampshire, the AP’s vote totals were reported directly to the news agency by town clerks and were verified by AP in most towns before the count was completed.

“But Stein’s lawsuit notes the 2016 presidential election was subject to “.unprecedented cyberattacks apparently meant to interfere with the election”.

“And most importantly, we have monitored and staffed the post-election canvasses – where voting machine tapes are compared to poll-books, provisional ballots are resolved, and all of the math is double checked from election night”, Elias said. “Sophisticated attackers such as nation-states have developed a variety of techniques for attacking non-Internet-connected systems”.

Trump’s win in MI gives the Republican 306 electoral votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 232.

Stein and her supporters have cited the potential that the state’s voting machines may have been hacked in their request for the recount, although they have not cited any evidence that they were hacked.

“In Wisconsin elections are fair and accurate and conducted by hard working people, my fellow citizens”, Thomsen said. Politically involved NYU students anticipate the results, as it may unravel another layer of this election cycle. “But we can stand there to observe”, Martin said. Trump has blasted the recount campaign and called Stein’s raising money for the associated legal fees a “scam”.

With news that Clinton’s campaign would join the Green Party’s Jill Stein to review ballots in key Midwestern states, Trump went on a Twitter tirade, dismissing Clinton’s decision as hypocritical and that it would end with the same result.

Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn has been assigned the case.

Rocky Roque de la Fuente, an independent candidate who got just 1,514 votes, also petitioned Wisconsin for a recount, though it was unclear whether he planned to pay for it.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously Monday morning to approve a recount timeline.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has asked for a recount in Wisconsin and is preparing to ask for recounts in MI and Pennsylvania, saying she wants to make sure the results weren’t hacked. Stein also asked for a recount in Pennsylvania and was expected to do the same in MI, where officials certified Trump’s victory Monday.

“This was a hack-riddled election, “Stein said upon filing the recount”. In the 8 November election Donald Trump won 290 of votes over Clinton’s 232. Mr Trump narrowly won both states. But “we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself”, he said. In subsequent tweets Trump said “It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 – states instead of the 15 states that I visited”.

Then, it’ll be up to elections officials in each of the state’s 72 counties to work nights and weekends to recount their votes.

The Michigan Secretary of State’s office said Saturday it is researching how federal law affects the timeline to complete a recount, but it anticipates that a recount would have to be done before December 19 when the electoral college, including the 16 people who make up Michigan’s, meets to cast its votes for president, said spokesman Fred Woodhams.

Federal law requires that all recounts be finished 35 days after the election, which is December 13.

A Republican member of the Electoral College from Texas says he’s resigning so he won’t cast one of the state’s 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump.

Of Wisconsin’s 1,853 municipalities, 813 count most of their ballots by hand.

“We have a good model, to base our procedures on this time around, we can use a lot of organizational techniques and communication methods that we used at that time”, said Haas. “These concerns need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified”. There’s more wrangling to come, though, on the final vote count for this oh-so-contentious campaign.

“I’m all for party unity, but I’m not sure we have to pay for that with the secretary of state position”, Conway said.

Stein would have to get a court order for a hand recount.

That’s the proposed start date that the Wisconsin Elections Commission is to vote on approving Monday.