Green Party sues for Pennsylvania vote recount

The recount submissions that Stein’s team filed in MI and Wisconsin also had setbacks initially. “The people deserve answers”.

The recount effort in MI has been spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who is also leading recount efforts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The recount has been pursued by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein – and supported by the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.

It has been widely reported that Stein has put up more money for her recount efforts than she spent on her entire campaign.

“We have no choice but to seek federal intervention”, Stein counsel Jonathan Abady said Monday, announcing the Pennsylvania filing.

“Let every vote count”, Stein said Monday outside Trump Tower in New York “That’s what makes America great”. I believe we should kick the tires of our electoral system, and we should probably do it more regularly than we do, especially given how quickly and dramatically the methods for voting have changed with technology.

Stein cited the fact that 75,000 votes in Pennsylvania did not select a presidential candidate as reason for suspicion about the accuracy of the vote there.

Stein earlier in the weekend had taken aim at procedural hurdles at the state level.

“It is inexcusable for Stein to put MI voters at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process”, Schuette, a Republican, said in a statement.

Lawyers for Trump and the Pennsylvania Republican Party argued there was no evidence, or even an allegation, that tampering with the state’s voting systems had occurred. The Court ruled that no constitutionally valid recount could be accomplished by the safe-harbor deadline.

“#Recount2016 is so expensive because of elected leaders who have refused to invest in a 21st-century voting system”.

But Stein and her cadre are likely to persist. Trump is winning Wisconsin by a little more than 27,000 votes; his lead in MI sits at around 11,000; and his lead in Pennsylvania is insurmountable at over 68,000.

What the Stein campaign is hoping is that the recount will show that Hillary Clinton actually won Wisconsin and that those 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin would go to the Clinton camp.

A spokeswoman for Pennsylvania’s Department of State declined to comment.

In Oakland, the county, as well as Ingham County, had been scheduled to start their recounts on Friday morning until the campaign of Donald Trump filed an objection to the recount request and a lawsuit in the state Court of Appeals to try and stop the recount from going forward. The recount that began Thursday was requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. The three states have also historically voted Democrat. Ottawa County will begin its process at 1 p.m. Tuesday, with Muskegon County beginning to count Wednesday.

So far $6.8m has been raised for the vote recount effort.