Green Party drops bid for statewide Pennsylvania recount

Trump and the Pennsylvania GOP had opposed the recount.

Legal submissions were made to the authorities in these three states by the Republicans, who argued that recounts requested by Jill Stein, the Green party candidate, should not be allowed, reports the Guardian.

Asked whether he thinks the recount results could serve as a rebuttal to Trump’s claim that millions of votes were cast illegally for Clinton, Walker said they are “two separate issues”.

The state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, has said there was no evidence of any sort of cyberattacks or irregularities in the election. As at Friday, $6.82 million has been raised, leaving a shortfall of $2.7million, needed to meet the jacked up recount fees in Wisconsin. Official Michigan results show Trump defeated Clinton by 10,704 votes.

At her current pace, Clinton will overtake Trump in Wisconsin in approximately 74 and a half years. Usually they like to get through the elections and then get ready for property tax bills being sent out and collected, so that’s a bit of a challenge. “The recount does not benefit one candidate over another”. Defendants are Thomas and members of the Board of State Canvassers.

Trump on Sunday lashed out at the recount efforts.

Jill Stein, Green Party nominee for president in 2016. That sum may be adjusted upward once the recount is complete.

Initially, Stein’s campaign estimated (according to its fundraising page) that the Wisconsin recount would cost $1.1 million, Pennsylvania would cost $500,000 and MI would cost $600,000.

Stein elaborated on Twitter, asking: “How odd is it that we must jump through bureaucratic hoops and raise millions of dollars so we can trust our election results?”

Stein announced November 23 that she would start raising money to fund the recounts, after computer scientists suggested that ballot machines could have been hacked.

Replacing them in Pennsylvania would be expensive – the last major update a decade ago cost more than $100 million, Hill said.

Pennsylvania’s automatic statewide recount trigger is 0.5 percent.

Recounts rarely result in victories being reversed. Her campaign voiced concern that voting machines were vulnerable to errors and possible malfeasance.

Citing the federal “safe harbor” deadline of December 13 – six days before the Electoral College meets – Stein’s filing claimed further delay in the recount is “effectively denying the right to vote”.

“Paper ballots, like those used in Michigan’s elections, are the best defense we have against cyberattacks, but that defense is only effective if we actually look at the paper trail after the election”, he said.