Green Party eyes lawsuit seeking recount in Pennsylvania

She’s already successfully petitioned for one in Wisconsin, after raising more than $6.5 million to fund the recounts, and also filed for one in Pennsylvania on Monday.

Still, the state’s announcement was met with a lawsuit from Stein, who made a decision to sue after Wisconsin declined to compel county officials to count the votes by hand.

A lawyer for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein wouldn’t discuss what would be alleged in the expected lawsuit Monday. Trump’s margin of victory in the state was a slim 0.22 percent of the total vote. And The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that a Pennsylvania Department of State spokeswoman said that the deadline for filing for the voter-requested recount was last Monday, Nov. 21. But “we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself”, he said.

Stein said she plans to request a recount in MI over its 16 electoral votes as similar cases progress in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

President-elect Donald Trump says it’s “sad” that Hillary Clinton is joining an effort to force vote recounts in up to three states.

Hours after Clinton delivered her remarks, President Obama joined his nominee in asking the same of the country – and my Democratic party.

In a separate statement, the President-elect championed Clinton’s call for the nation to “look to the future”, after she conceded her defeat on election night, adding: “the election is over”. He says the goal is not to change who heads to the White House, but to test whether ballot counting in MI and other swing states is, in fact, accurate.

If the margin had been under 0.5 percent, the state would pay for the recount, but the current margin of 27,257 is just under one percent – the tally now stands at 1,409,467 for Mr. Trump and 1,382,210 for Clinton.

They expect to finish the recount by 8 p.m. December 12 to certify the results by the deadline.

A recount will be expensive.

Recounts in major statewide elections are extremely rare – and they seldom succeed in changing the result. Local elections officials were to submit estimates for how much the recount will cost by noon Monday. There are 6,300 precincts in MI, which translates into a whopping recount price tag of $787,500.

But will these recounts actually happen? The nation’s election system is decentralized, a patchwork of state laws whose differences would be almost impossible to target on a large scale, said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice.

Commission Chairman Mark Thomsen said he doesn’t expect the recount to change the results of the election.

The official declaration that Trump won the state means the other candidates have a Wednesday deadline to file for a recount.

The Board of State Canvassers has four members.

MI has 16 electoral college votes. Those times also do not include any potential court challenges.

Last week, Stein launched an initiative to raise $7 million to fund the recount fees in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and MI. The campaign filed a petition Friday in Wisconsin, beginning a recount effort there.

According to Stein’s website, she intends to raise seven million USA dollars for recount costs, and any surplus will be used to “promote voting system reform”.