Green Party taking bid for election recount to federal court

In a filing Saturday, a lawyer for Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate who initiated the recount bid in Pennsylvania as well as similar bids in MI and Wisconsin said “petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means” and could not afford a $1 million bond payment that was ordered by Pennsylvania courts.

Trump and his allies have attempted to stop the initiatives in the states, calling the recount effort a ‘scam.’ Clinton’s campaign has said it would take part in the recounts.

But in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Stein says that delay is unreasonable and violates equal protection and due process rights guaranteed under the Constitution, “effectively denying the right to vote” if the recount is not completed in time to meet federal deadlines. It says barriers to a recount in Pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court system isn’t equipped to address the problem.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, raised over $6.9 million to fund recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. She’s said a recount could determine whether the election results were manipulated by hackers.

Stein’s lawyers, however, had offered no evidence of hacking in Pennsylvania’s election.

199776199767199767News Wrap: Stein continues fundraising for recountsIn our news wrap Monday, Green Party candidate Jill Stein is pressing on in her effort to obtain recounts in several swing states.

The Green Party refused to back down in its efforts to initiate a state-wide recount in Pennsylvania.

To get a court order, Stein must show she will suffer “irreparable harm” if the recount doesn’t start immediately.

At one point, the two began talking over each other when Stein said she wanted the allow the views of the American voter to be heard and Wallace replied that the views were that Donald Trump was elected.

George W. Bush won by 537 votes over former Vice President Al Gore. “Judges in Bucks and DE counties will hear arguments this week on whether to grant recounts, Otter said”.

Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities in the votes in all three states suggest that there could have been tampering with the vote, perhaps through a well-coordinated, highly complex cyberattack.

Brewer argued it was Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette who warned Michigan’s electoral votes could be at risk if the recount is not completed by December 13.

Trump surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to win, with 306. Cortes predicted that a recount would change few votes.

As of Friday, however, The Associated Press was reporting that state officials said an updated count had reduced Trump’s lead to just 49,000, and that was with some counties still finishing their counts for various reasons.

While Clinton won the popular vote nationwide, it’s unlikely the recount will find enough errant ballots to move any of the three states into her column. His lead is now 0.8 percent, which is shy of the 0.5 percent that would trigger an automatic state recount.

Stein plans to hold a rally on Monday across the street from Trump Tower in NY “vowing to fight tooth and nail to verify the accuracy, security and fairness of the vote”, a statement read.