Federal judge agrees to end Michigan recount after 3 days

The Stein campaign still hopes the Michigan Supreme Court will intervene to re-start the recount.

A federal judge has lifted an order that had allowed Michigan’s recount, effectively ending it.

A MI judge ordered that the state start its vote recount on December 5, but by December 7, he had changed his tune and halted that very same recount. The other is that if the recounts uncover irregularities, even on a relatively small scale, reforms and modernisation of voting technologies, which vary between states and also from county to county, may follow. Trump won the election narrowly.

“The vulnerability of our system of voting poses the threat of potentially devastating attack on the integrity of our election system”. Stein lost two votes.

Trump narrowly defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in MI and two other states where Stein requested recounts, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The recounts requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein were not expected to change enough votes to overturn the result of the election. Representatives for Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential nominee, who has called for recounts in three states, said they meant to pursue other legal avenues in MI.

Clerk Cassandra Suettinger said McFarland’s ballots were recounted Monday.

Trump’s lead over Clinton in Pennsylvania is about 44,000 out of more than 6 million votes cast, with just a few ballots remaining to be counted, state officials said this week.

On the second, Magney said all campaign representatives have a chance to view a ballot before it goes into the machine and the vote is recorded, while inserting one facedown has no impact on the functionality of the machine.

That’s a reversal of an earlier report showing a 140 vote gain for Trump, and it comes after 309 uncounted votes were discovered.

The recounts are extremely unlikely to change the outcome of the election.

Attorney Gary Gordon, who represents the Michigan Republican Party, also urged Goldsmith to stop the recount.

The elections board met again Wednesday but said it will wait to decide whether to end the recount until it sees what U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith does. Stein’s campaign also cited alleged irregularities with voting machines, hacking, and possible voter suppression in MI. Defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said it will take part in the recounts.

“By 11 p.m. (Wednesday) we were absolutely 100 percent done with everything we needed to do the count just in time for them to tell us we wasted our time for the last three days”, he said. Stein has appealed to the state Supreme Court. Bartelt says she referred the request over to Corporation Counsel Brian Desmond.

In Pennsylvania on Monday, Stein filed a suit in federal court to try to impose a statewide recount of presidential votes there.

Though the recount effort seems to have reached its limit, Stein said not yet.

Meanwhile, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers met in Lansing today.

The presidential recount in MI expands Tuesday to its largest county, which includes Detroit, and five other counties, and the fate of a statewide recount push in Pennsylvania awaits action in federal court.

Stein insists shes more concerned about the accuracy of the election.