Stein on recounts: ‘My campaign is not going to win here’

Stein also hopes to file for a recount in MI, which (on Monday) has finally declared Trump the victor of the state’s 16 electoral votes.

Clinton’s legal team said on Saturday it had agreed to participate in a recount of Wisconsin votes after the state’s election board approved the effort requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, which Trump has called “ridiculous”. It won’t be cheap and it will be a monumental task for the secretary of state and 83 county clerks around the state.

In order to actually trigger a recount statewide, which is the goal, Stein needs to find almost 30,000 individual voters and have them submit an affidavit requesting the recount – that’s three voters for all 9,163 precincts in the state.

Trump and his aides have pushed back hard against that recount, with the president-elect letting loose a series of early-morning tweets in which he quoted Clinton about the need to respect the electoral process. But it’s unclear if the courts have that authority.

This all comes after a group of computer scientists reached out to the Clinton campaign, casting doubt on the election results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Mark Thomsen, chairman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, said Monday he believes the recount will reveal that elections in Wisconsin are very fair and accurate.

“Petitioners have grave concerns about the integrity of electronic voting machines used in their districts”, the suit, filed by 100 Pennsylvania voters, stated.

Republican Donald Trump finished ahead of Democrat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin by about 22,177 votes. Voters fill out a ballot and feed it into the machine, which then electronically records the vote.

Stein says in the lawsuit that the 2016 presidential race was “subject to unprecedented cyberattacks” and lays out a scenario about how votes could be compromised.

Here are three basic things to know about the state’s recount effort. The effort for a full recount in Pittsburgh was short by 88 percent as the 4:30 p.m. deadline loomed.

Since Trump’s election victory, a recount request has been filed in Wisconsin, where the President-elect’s margin of victory was less than one percentage point, and in Pennsylvania, where the margin was just over 1%.

Should the candidates disagree with the result of the recount, they are able to appeal in circuit court within five days of the completion of the recount. But Pennsylvania’s recount petition process is expected to be an uphill battle. The big deadline is December 19 when all of the states’ electors must meet to cast their Electoral College votes. That’s just 10,704 more votes than Clinton out of more than 4.5 million cast in the state and is the closest in MI history.

A recount will be expensive. Share your own thoughts about the recount with us below. There are 6,300 precincts in MI, which translates into a whopping recount price tag of $787,500. That involves more than 9,000 precincts.

“We do not have one instance of that happening”, McAuliffe said.

The commission is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans.

Stein is challenging results in the presidential and U.S. Senate contests in at least 25 of Montgomery County’s 425 precincts.

Stein’s campaign filed last week to request a recount in Wisconsin.