Jill Stein Defends Her Recount Efforts

Haas said it doesn’t mean Wisconsin would automatically forfeit its electoral college votes, which will be cast December 19, but missing the deadline means Congress would not be required to recognize the vote.

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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.

Elias said Clinton would take the same approach in Pennsylvania and MI if Stein were to follow through with recount requests those states, even though that was highly unlikely to change the election outcome.

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.

A party spokesman said the recount effort has nothing to do with overturning the result of the election in which Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote to Republican Donald Trump.

Trump angrily denounced the recounts and now claims without evidence that he, not Clinton, would have won the popular vote if it hadn’t been for “millions of people who voted illegally”. There could also be a court challenge to a recount. Tell Mr. Priebus I have standing to petition for recounts in New Hampshire, Maine, Nevada, Minnesota and Colorado; all states that Hillary won by three percent or less. His remarks came after a special meeting of the commission to plan for the recount.

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“It is a decentralized and relatively safe system”, Thomsen explained.

Wisconsin’s 72 County Clerks expect to hire thousands of temporary workers to assist the county boards of canvassers in recounting the ballots. About 5 percent of votes are cast on touch-screen machines. This includes hand counting paper ballots and examining electronic voting machines. Recounts will cost up to a million dollars or more for each state. In order to change the election results, it would have to be all three states.

A spokeswoman said the department is now working to get that information.

Michael Haas, an administrator at the Wisconsin Election Commission, wrote in a statement that the commission was assessing the costs of the recount and would be moving forward with the process once Stein footed the bill.

Yet he has seemed to undercut his own argument that the election is over by going on to question the integrity of the vote. Clinton now trails Trump by more than a percentage point.

They pointed only to past charges of irregularities in voter registration. But the commission left it up to local election officials to determine the best method for conducting the recount, either by hand or using ballot tabulation machines. Stein estimates the Pennsylvania recount will cost $500,000.