I would have won popular vote too with different kind of campaign

A recount is now underway in Wisconsin, while Stein is expected to file in Pennsylvania and MI, as well, which have deadlines of Monday and Wednesday, respectively.

A US Green Party member unhappy with the party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein’s move to challenge the election vote count in three states has filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Attorney General, alleging that her petition may have contained false statements under oath.

“The only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence - paper ballots and voting equipment in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania”.

It comes after the camp of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said it would support a vote recount in Wisconsin initiated by a Green Party candidate. President-elect Donald Trump’s narrow victories in those states gave him enough electoral votes to cinch the election. As of Monday afternoon, Stein’s website showed her fundraising totals at a little more than $6.2 million, just shy of her $7 million goal for recount efforts in three states. ABC News reached out for comment to election officials in the three states Trump named, but had not received a response Sunday evening.

Still, Trump and his lieutenants assailed the effort led by the Green Party’s Jill Stein, calling it fraudulent, the work of “crybabies” and, in Trump’s view, tweeted from Florida, “sad”. Those states must complete their recounts by a December 13 deadline set by the federal government. Or the president-elect. Reporter: In California, the secretary of state called trump’s allegations of voter fraud “Absurd”.

The US government has said Russian state actors were behind hacks on the Democratic National Committee, a claim denied by Moscow.

After launching a fundraising campaign Wednesday, Stein – whose website explicitly says the recounts are not aimed at helping Clinton, but in preserving the integrity of the election – has raised almost $6 million to pay for recounts. Trump takes office on January 20. The recounts are not expected to change the results of the election.

Stein has already filed a recount request in Wisconsin, where the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports election officials have set a timetable for the recount, but declined to require a statewide hand recount. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, if Stein loses her suit it will be up to the counties to decide; some could perform machine recounts while others may decide to count by hand.

Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarnezki said a hand recount could jeopardize meeting that December 12th deadline. “I would have won even more easily and convincingly (but smaller states are forgotten)!” he added.

What matters is that by going on the offensive, he turns a story about the legitimacy of his narrow wins in key states into a muddled mess. Under this provision, the petition to contest an election must assert legitimate claims of fraud or illegality that would definitely change the outcome, said Lawrence Tabas, the Republican Party’s election law specialist. The voters who are part of the lawsuit stated they also want a recount to determine whether any hacking of Pennsylvania’s electronic voting machines took place.

Thomsen dismissed Stein’s claims of problems with the Wisconsin vote as unfounded and misleading.

Trump claims that millions of people voted in the November 8 presidential election illegally.

Contributing: Paul Egan and Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, and Will Cummings, USA TODAY.