Jill Stein files for recount in Pennsylvania

“Count on Trump to find a way to be a sore victor”.

“And as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future'”.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein is expected to seek a recount in MI, as she has done in Wisconsin.

Stein pointed to “hack-friendly” voting machines and restrictive voter identification laws as hindrances to accurate and reliable elections. 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. The effort for a full recount in Pittsburgh was short by 88 percent as the 4:30 p.m. deadline loomed. In the three states that Stein hopes to get a recount, Trump beat Clinton by more than 10,000 votes, which is a margin that a recount is unlikely to reverse.

A MI elections panel has certified Donald Trump as the victor in the state’s presidential election, according to The Associated Press.

Trump defeated Clinton in Pennsylvania by about 71,000 votes, or about one percentage point.

“I fully expect, given the history of how elections are conducted in Wisconsin. that the outcome is not going to be different” than the current results, Mark Thomsen, chair of the state’s elections commission, said at a news conference Monday.

Mark Brewer is the MI attorney for the recount effort. Meanwhile, Clinton’s national lead now tops 2 million votes for the first time.

“We have not heard directly from Jill Stein’s campaign”, Thomas said. “This recount is about the millions of ordinary Americans across the nation who are rising up to say ‘enough is enough'”.

Michigan Elections Director Chris Thomas says recounts could begin as soon as Monday, December 5th, and wrap up by December 10th.

The Board of State Canvassers certified Trump’s 10,704-vote victory on Monday, almost three weeks after the election.

“The recount effort is non-partisan and Stein is not coordinating with any other campaign”, said David Cobb, campaign manager for the Stein recount effort. In a filing to the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin asking for a statewide hand recount, Stein stated that the Elections Commission had acknowledged that a hand recount is not necessarily more time-consuming than an electronic tabulation.