Wisconsin Elections Commission: Recount expected to uphold Trump’s win

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s efforts to recount votes in Pennsylvania would bring significantly more challenges than in the other two states where she is pursuing a recount, Wisconsin and MI, according to CBS News.

Marc Erik Elias, an election lawyer for the Democratic candidate, said in a post on Medium.com on Saturday that the campaign would also participate in recounts in MI and Pennsylvania if they are arranged.

Stein’s campaign indicated it plans to file a lawsuit in Dane County court so it can obtain a court order “directing that the recount in that state be done exclusively by hand”. “But I don’t doubt that the president-elect is going to win that”.

Trump and his aides have offered no evidence concerning the claims, nor did Trump explain why he would oppose the nascent Wisconsin recount if illegal voting was such a serious problem.

Trump’s transition team did not respond to questions seeking evidence of the claims.

Wisconsin voters backed Republican president-elect Donald Trump, with Democrat Hillary Clinton behind him by 22,177 votes. Under laws passed in MI in 2014 that are meant to make it more hard to recall lawmakers, recounts are costly for the people requesting them.

Laurence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, said that although recounts are “entirely within the law”, Stein’s effort is probably aimed more at “trying to gain attention and establish herself as a national player”. She estimated the number is in the dozens-not almost enough, she noted, to prompt a recount of the entire county.

Lawrence Otter, a lawyer for Stein’s campaign, said in an interview that he intends to file suit in Commonwealth Court on Monday asking for a statewide recount of the November 8 presidential election result. Halderman said whether the machines are connected to the internet is irrelevant since election workers typically copy ballot designs from a computer that’s connected online and transfer the designs to the machines using memory sticks. However, they want what they’re paying for – a hand recount of all ballots.

The recount would include an examination of all ballots, poll lists, absentee applications, rejected absentee ballots and provisional ballots.

A small number of votes in Wisconsin are cast on touch-screen machines.

Because of how close that race was, Kapanke is not required to pay for the recount.

The recount of Wisconsin’s presidential election could begin on Thursday.

Recount petitions can only be filed by candidates listed on the ballot. She says a hand recount is the only way to determine whether votes as reported are accurate. Both recount petitioners have been advised of the cost estimate.

The state Elections Commission must grant the recount request but on Monday refused to order that the counting be done by hand.

A statement released on behalf of Stein circulated on Twitter Monday afternoon.

While technically possible, even Stein admits the recounts are unlikely to change the results of the election.

Voting machines are programmed at the county level, either by county clerks or by the machine vendor.

Haas noted that Bush v. Gore – there was a 537-vote margin – was decided by the Supreme Court on the 35th day after the 2000 election.

The Green Party presidential candidate requested a recount on Friday.

Wednesday, commission staff will hold a teleconference in the morning for all county clerks and canvass members to outline the process and rules of a recount.

December 12, all county canvass boards must be completed by 8 p.m. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is participating in the Wisconsin recount, the democratic nominee’s general counsel revealed in a post published Saturday on Medium.

If the margin had been under 0.5 percent, the state would pay for the recount, but the current margin of 27,257 is just under one percent – the tally now stands at 1,409,467 for Mr. Trump and 1,382,210 for Clinton.

Trump won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of just more than 20,000 votes.