Jill Stein Asks for Vote Recount in Pennsylvania Too

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein officially requested a vote recount in Wisconsin Friday and has indicated she intends to do the same in MI and Pennsylvania.

If the results in all three states were to be overturned, the 46 electoral votes Trump would lose would be given to Clinton, and would make her president-elect.

One reason that people are still disputing the results is because of how presidents are elected in the United States.

This came on the heels of the USA government’s announcement that Russian Federation was behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the email accounts of Clinton’s campaign officials. An official with the Michigan Bureau of Elections said a recount will likely start by the end of the week, with a goal of completing it by December 13.

In a conference call with reporters, Jason Miller, communications director for the Trump transition team, read a statement from the president-elect stating his disapproval of Stein’s recount efforts.

Trump’s victory in MI – the first by a Republican since 1988 – gives the president-elect 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232 electoral votes.

New Hampshire’s deputy secretary of state, David Scanlan, said there was no evidence supporting Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

In Michigan, the request goes to the Board of State Canvassers and Trump can challenge the request.

While Donald Trump has not formally indicated that he intends to contest a recount, it has been noted that he has been critical of Dr. Stein’s efforts. If she raises more money than is needed for the recount itself – including multimillion-dollar attorney fees – her campaign will use the surplus for “election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform”.

In response, Stein and her campaign have sued in Dane County Circuit Court, seeking an order requiring that the recount be done by hand.

Suchanic said she had reached out to election officials at the polling place where they alleged this occurred, but she couldn’t confirm those reports. “To say that it’s not being fair or that people are counting illegal votes, from my vantage point, is an insult to the people that run our elections”.

The recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which the Stein campaign has applied for on Friday, will start as soon as this week. Stein has said she also intends to pursue recounts in MI and Pennsylvania, two other traditionally Democratic states carried by Trump.

Republican Donald Trump is officially the victor of the presidential race in MI.

Among the tweets, Trump pointed out that Clinton has already conceded and that she had responded in horror during their third debate when he had suggested he might not accept the election results if he lost. Voters fill out a ballot and feed it into the machine, which then electronically records the vote.

The issue here being that Stein missed the deadline for a voter-initiated recount.

Also, Bernie Sanders, former rival of Clinton, called Trump’s remarks “unfounded nonsense” that indicated Republicans sought to make it more hard for people including minorities to register to vote. Additionally, the Stein campaign lawyer Lawrence Otter said a lawsuit on behalf of 100 Pennsylvania voters was filed asking for a statewide vote recount.