Croix County Recount ‘Accurate’; Broken Warranty Seals on Machines Explained

Clay ignored the fact that Jill Stein didn’t concoct this scheme until weeks after the election and has no right to wait until the last minute and then cry foul.

A Friday federal court hearing is scheduled in a separate Green Party request.

“In a huge victory for Michigan taxpayers and the rule of law, this recount is stopped”, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican who opposes the recount, said in a statement. Stein’s team hasn’t produced evidence of hacking, but calls Pennsylvania’s election system “a national disgrace”.

In Pennsylvania, Stein is still fighting for a recount despite running into legal roadblocks. It is unknown why these funds are not used to cover the problematic costs.

In Wisconsin, one of three states where Green Party candidate Jill Stein has sought a fresh tabulation, the president-elect has even gained on Hillary Clinton. Pennsylvania GOP lawyer Lawrence J. Tabas stated that the withdrawal showed that Stein’s effort was “completely without merit”.

The recount’s biggest developments Tuesday were in MI, where the day started with the growing revelation that thousands of ballots in the counties most solidly behind Clinton were being deemed ineligible for the recount. “I don’t think you can take this action until you see exactly what the court says”. Her campaign is focused on verifying whether over 75,000 people did not cast votes for president in a state Trump leads by under 11,000 votes. She filed the recount, but she has no standing to force such a recount.

Democrats have countered by filing suit for the recounts to go forward. “Based on evidence provided by the St. Croix County Clerk’s office and the equipment manufacturer, the Commission staff is confident that the voting equipment is accurately tabulating and reporting the results in St. Croix County”.

The appeals court told the MI elections board to reconsider Stein’s petition and reject it.

This means the recount must now stop. Judge Mark Goldsmith acted Wednesday night, a day after the state appeals court said the Green Party candidate isn’t eligible to seek a recount of millions of vote cast November 8.

But another supporter of Stein’s efforts doubts that recount was valid. In Montgomery County, the GOP alleged that voters could not file their recount affidavits because they allegedly failed to pay a “required” $50 court filing fee, even though the voters paid nearly double that fee.

The Green Party has launched presidential recounts in three states, which is unprecedented.

Nor is it necessary for an election hacker to have cooperation of a local elections official, according to Rivest. Lastly, and most importantly, can the state court do anything about it? As of this articles publishing, Trump remains ahead of Clinton in Wisconsin. Speaking to Fox News, former FEC member Hans von Spakovsky said that the probability of vote machine hacking is extremely low due to machines not being connected to a network. The issue for him was timing – not whether a recount was appropriate.

The recount may not continue.