Dr. Jill Stein officially requests recount in MI

MI is also the recount state in which Donald Trump has the smallest margin of victory over Hillary Clinton; he won by 10,704 votes in the state.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s campaign officially filed a recount request Wednesday afternoon and it is under review.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission said Tuesday it had received almost US$3.5 million from the Stein campaign in payment of the cost of the recount, which will begin Thursday. “The recount process is very detail-oriented, and this deadline will certainly challenge some counties to finish on time”, said Wisconsin election administrator Michael Haas.

Who wants a vote recount?

Stein says certain electronic voting machines are “tamper friendly” and she denied the Trump Camp’s claims that this is just a ploy for the Green Party to get money.

Stein set up a fundraising page on her website last week, saying that the money raised would be put toward recount efforts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI.

Trump defeated Clinton in Pennsylvania by about 71,000 votes, or about 1 percentage point.

The board certified the November 8 election results Monday, showing that Republican Donald Trump won the state with a 10,704 margin of victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the smallest of the margins in states Stein has targeted.

Baraka said he told Stein the recounts were a “potentially risky move”.

The complaint contends that Stein only received 31,006 votes in Wisconsin – so Clinton is the only person who could benefit from a recount.

Thomsen, the latest in a long line of officials to debunk the claim as without evidence, called Trump’s remarks “an insult to the people that run our elections”.

As reported by the Detroit Free Press, her lawyer Mark Brewer arrived at the Board of Elections with a cheque for $973,250, enough to pay for a recount of $125 per precinct. The Green Party candidate initiated the recount process last week after handily raising more than $6.3 million to fund the effort.

The presidential vote recount begins Thursday morning at 9.

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.

Any cost above what the state charges the Stein campaign would have to be picked up by taxpayers.