How will recounts work in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania?
President-elect Donald Trump has officially won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, although a recount is possible.
Art Sisneros, a Republican member of the Electoral College, says he can’t cast a vote for the president-elect as he believes Trump “is not qualified” to hold high office. Attorneys representing Trump and the Michigan GOP said Monday they favored a machine recount over Stein’s hand recount in the name of efficiency and accuracy.
With the clock winding down for voters and candidates to seek recounts in states across the country, Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein requested a recount in Pennsylvania on Monday just hours before the state’s deadline. She has until Wednesday to file her request.
Three people close to the transition team said Trump had been aware that Conway planned to voice her opinion, both on Twitter and in television interviews.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla called Trump’s allegations unsubstantiated and Virginia Commissioner of Elections Edgardo Cortes said they were unfounded.
In Texas, Republicans during their state convention in May chose 38 electors – one from each congressional district and two elected statewide – to gather that day in the Texas House of Representatives chamber for what is typically a quiet ceremony.
He said without substantial evidence, the election process shouldn’t be delayed and no one should think of getting rid of the electoral college.
Jill Stein is on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her own failed Green Party presidential bid.
Without citing any evidence, Trump claimed in a series of tweets on Sunday that there was voter fraud in California, New Hampshire and Virginia. The two-tenths of a percentage point margin out of almost 4.8 million votes is the closest presidential race in MI in more than 75 years. It was a foolish thing for him to say at the time, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, it seems as though some people’s standards for outrage have suddenly shifted.
However, the Trump campaign has yet to provide evidence that widespread fraud – involving “millions of voters” – in fact swayed the results of the presidential election, as the president-elect said it did. In a tweet, Trump wrote: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
That’s the claim from Donald Trump.
Trump met Monday with candidates for top Cabinet posts, including retired Gen. David Petraeus, a new contender for secretary of state.
“We must recount the votes so we can build trust in our election system”, Stein said.
Sununu told WMUR he wants people to feel confident their votes aren’t “being diluted or abused by folks who aren’t either real residents or whatever the case may be”.
Democrats have blamed the Russian government for interfering with the election, including the hacking of Democratic Party emails.
“Here’s the bad news for taxpayers, if it goes higher than that, the state elections director told us late this afternoon, local counties have to make up the difference”, Skubick said.
The AP, which called Democrat Hillary Clinton the victor in all three states, said its vote count operation found no significant differences between the county-by-county vote totals and those released statewide on election night in California and Virginia.