Judge to hear arguments in hand recount Tuesday afternoon

State officials said they expect the recount to uphold Trump’s win-but Stein’s efforts have highlighted widespread voter outrage at the election results.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has raised upward of million to fund a recount of votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

Hillary Clinton asked a Wisconsin judge for permission Tuesday to join Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s lawsuit demanding a hand recount, a process that may cost Stein about $400,000 more than she anticipated. “We’re concerned about election integrity, so we want to make sure that every vote is counted”.

Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairman Mark Thomsen told the Associated Press he was certain a recount would not yield a different result, and that Donald Trump would remain the victor after the recount.

– Tom Salmon won the race for Vermont auditor in 2006 after he requested a recount.

Baraka wrote in a Facebook post Monday that he thinks Stein believes she has an obligation to “mount a challenge to the results in those three states”, but he explained his concerns with the decision.

How have the Clinton and Trump teams responded? . The process is slated to begin Thursday and must be completed by December 13 or Congress could gain control of the state’s electoral votes.

Attorneys for Trump have not said whether they would choose to file an appeal, but during the State Board of Canvassers meeting argued a machine recount would be faster than a hand recount, which is what the Stein campaign asked for and how Secretary of State officials now plan to proceed.

Stein’s campaign plans to request a recount in MI by Wednesday, and is working to organize the hundreds of petitions needed to get one started in Pennsylvania.

University of MI computer scientist Alex Halderman, who says voting machines and optical scanners that count ballots are prone to errors and outside manipulation, told reporters that the recount will show “for sure” whether cyber-attacks have occurred. She called on Stein to give up on the MI recount. But he told them he hopes they’ve accepted that the recount must be conducted, by law, and that it will be done professionally.

Stein issued a statement Tuesday morning calling Wisconsin’s $3.5 million cost “exorbitant” but pledged to pay it. She also assumes $2-3 million in legal fees. So far, she has raised nearly $6.3 million of the $7 million she’s seeking to cover the total costs for the three recounts.

Could recount requests be rejected? . Instead, each of the state’s 72 counties has the choice of counting by hand or by machine. Stein will not be appealing the Wisconsin judge’s ruling.