Jill Stein presidential recount effort prompts money gusher

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s attorney in Bucks County, Pa., filed legal paperwork Monday hoping to trigger a statewide recount and invoking suspicions that Russian government officials wanted to meddle in the us presidential election.

Stein, with Clinton’s support, could also contest the outcomes in two other states Trump won: MI, where he is ahead by about 12,000 votes, and Pennsylvania, where he prevailed by about 68,000.

Texas doesn’t require its presidential electors to vote in accordance with the state’s presidential election results.

“It is a decentralized and relatively safe system”, Thomsen explained. “But I don’t doubt that the president-elect is going to win that”. I mean, he won that county.

Stein said in a statement, “We must recount the votes so we can build trust in our election system”. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has said she planned to request recounts in the three states – all reliably Democratic in recent presidential elections – to see whether hacking may have taken place, though there’s no evidence voter results were hacked or electronic voting machines were compromised. A recount there can not simply be triggered by a candidate’s request.

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In a video posted on Sunday, Stein said she will start a voter-initiated recount in Pennsylvania, a process she described as as “especially complicated”.

Stein’s recount efforts in Pennsylvania will be significantly more hard than they were in Wisconsin.

Stein said she is “proud to stand up for election integrity” regardless of whether it changes the outcome of the presidential race.

The Clinton campaign announced that it will participate in the Wisconsin recount to ensure fairness.

A survey of coverage of Stein’s Green Party bid for the White House finds that ABC, CBS, and NBC gave Stein’s campaign a scant 36 seconds of coverage combined across all three networks during the entire time she was running for president. Congress would then step in and decide which candidate gets the state’s 10 votes. Those states must complete their recounts by a December 13 deadline set by the federal government. Pennsylvania has different recount procedures than the other two states.

The Elections Commission ordered county clerks to submit an estimate for the cost of a recount in their county by noon Monday. The recount would include an examination of all ballots, poll lists, absentee applications, rejected absentee ballots and provisional ballots. Her campaign spokeswoman, Melissa Figueroa, didn’t respond to several messages inquiring about whether Stein would go to court.