Green Party Drops Statewide Election Recount

“As a result, on Monday the Stein campaign will escalate our campaign in Pennsylvania and file for emergency relief in federal court, demanding a statewide recount on constitutional grounds”, the party said on Sunday.

Just hours earlier, Lawrence M. Otter, a lawyer for the former Green Party presidential candidate, had withdrawn the lawsuit filed with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania early Saturday evening.

Stein released a statement, describing the judge’s demands as “outrageous”.

But the death of one court case hasn’t killed localized recounts at a number of locations around the state, nor the end of Stein’s war of words against November’s victory by Republican Donald Trump.

But Clinton would need to win all three states in the recounts for the results of the election to be reversed.

Election experts say there is nearly no chance the election results would be overturned. Stein has raised about $6.8 million for her three-state recount campaign, but that’s a few million dollars short of what the Stein camp has said it will need to pay for the effort.

Stein has said the American people “deserve to have peace of mind”.

Officials, though, say they’ve found no evidence so far.

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.

Trump’s team and the Pennsylvania Republican Party have asked for the case to be dismissed.

The case also had threatened Pennsylvania’s ability to certify its presidential electors by the December 13 federal deadline, Republican lawyers argued. The race is decided by the Electoral College, or a tally of wins from the state-by-state contests, rather than by the popular national vote.

A hearing is expected in U.S. District Court in Detroit Sunday to decide when a recount of MI presidential election ballots can begin. Unless the Court of Appeals and state Supreme courts intervene, recount in MI will commence on Tuesday or Wednesday. There have been a number of minor clerical errors found, such that Donald Trump has gained 89 votes which he didn’t previously have, but has lost 86 which he did previously have.

Had there been any realistic hope of success in court, who can doubt that Stein would have come up with the money?

She is set to hold on Monday a previously scheduled news conference at Trump Tower in New York City, where is expected to announce her next steps in her recount campaign.