GOP predicts recount costs will be “eye-popping”

Steins campaign says “computer scientists and election experts have raised serious concerns about election results, including the vulnerability of voting machines that can be breached without detection and have a tendency to misread markings made by voters”.

Clerks will know after 2 p.m. Wednesday whether or not the state will be doing the recount, if MI does have to recount, Johnson says it will cost the state more than $3 million in taxpayer dollars. It says the Clinton campaign also emailed supporters looking for volunteers to help the recount, something Stein’s campaign didn’t do.

How much will it cost?

In Michigan, the cost of a recount is $125 per precinct. The state’s 83 counties will foot the rest of the recount bill. Barring a court challenge by Trump, the recount is expected to begin Friday. It will be up to judges and elections officials in those counties to act on the petitions. Elections Commission Administrator Mike Hass said only 19 counties plan to use electronic tabulators; the rest plan to count by hand. She also claims she’s not working in conjunction with any other campaign.

Armstrong added the recount in Branch County will take place in the courthouse annex conference room.

“Nevertheless, county clerks have been gearing up to complete this recount under a very challenging deadline”.

The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta reports on the potential cost of Michigan’s presidential recount.

So Trump can contest the recount?

On its Twitter account, the Secretary of State reported the office has received the recount request, and it is now under review. She called on Stein to give up on the MI recount.

Will a recount change the outcome?

Meanwhile in Wisconsin, where Mr Trump defeated Clinton by roughly 22,000 votes, Ms Stein’s campaign said it will not appeal a judge’s ruling that Wisconsin’s recount can be done without counting every ballot by hand.

Combined with the fact that 18 percent of voters in one poll do not view this presidential election’s results as legitimate, Stein says, voters can not be asked to trust computerized recount systems. “Sad”, Trump tweeted, posting part of Clinton’s speech telling her supporters to accept that “Donald Trump is going to be our president”.

The Michigan Republican Party is taking the lead in trying to block the recount. The New York Times noted at the time that the statewide recount of Ohio’s 88 counties resulted in a net difference of 285 votes, meaning that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in OH by 118,457 votes, instead of 118,775.