Judge orders Michigan recount to begin at noon Monday

Stein and her Green Party allies are seeking recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI.

Presidential candidate Jill Stein’s fight to force ballot recounts in three states focuses Monday on Pennsylvania, where her Green Party is seeking an emergency Federal Court order for a statewide recount, and MI, where a federal judge has ordered a hand recount to begin by noon.

Officials and election workers in Ingham and Oakland Counties kicked off the recount process shortly after noon Monday after the U.S. District Court ordered the state to begin the recount immediately.

Celebrating that decision mere steps from Trump Tower, Stein cited concerns over “blank votes” on some ballots.

Stein’s complaint alleges that Pennsylvania’s elections operation is “a national disgrace”.

Clinton intervened and supported a lawsuit in Wisconsin filed by Stein seeking a hand recount, and the state Democratic Party solicited volunteers to help watch the ballots being recounted. The recount is set to begin Monday at noon. They sought unsuccessfully in recent days to get various counties to allow a forensic examination of their election system software. She said that these blank votes were up 70% on previous years. That wipes out the challengers’ last-ditch hopes for a Trump loss – and leaves Stein, somewhat amazingly, with more money than she raised for her own campaign.

The suit filed Monday questioned whether Pennsylvania votes were counted accurately.

“We are here to assure Donald Trump that there is nothing to be afraid of”, Stein said. All states must certify election results by December 13.

The loudest critics are Trump supporters, who argue that Stein is secretly working with Clinton’s campaign in a destined-to-fail attempt to steal the election. “On the other hand we need to organize so we do have effective political resistance”, she said at the time. Every cent is going towards the recount effort, she said, and she doesn’t believe there will be any leftover funds. Candidate Jill Stein’s allegations created the false allusion that some unidentified foreign government hacked our state’s voting systems when absolutely no such proof existed. Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the state by about 46,700 votes. Even if all three recounts happen, none were expected to give Clinton enough votes to emerge as the victor.

Flipping them from Trump to Clinton would swing enough electoral votes to change the outcome of the November 8 elections. Members say the first count was an accurate count and that the recount will also show Trump won Wisconsin and Clinton lost Wisconsin.

“It’s clear that the fix was in against a verified vote in the state of Pennsylvania”, Stein said, “so we are now moving to a federal court to ask the court to please stand up for our constitutional right to vote”. That is still shy of Pennsylvania’s 0.5 percent trigger for an automatic statewide recount. There were also a couple protestors, perhaps even unwitting ones-one man, looking at the press pen prior to Stein’s arrival, called the reporters “a bunch of crybabies” before mimicking an infant’s cry.

Lawyers for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein want an immediate recount.