Jill Stein Raises Enough Money to Fund Recounts in 2 States

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Friday her push for election recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania was aimed at assessing the integrity of the US voting system, not at undermining Donald Trump’s White House victory.

“Now that we have completed funding Wisconsin’s recount (which is due on Friday), we have begun to tackle the funding for Pennsylvania’s recount (due Monday)”. The fundraising site says that after meeting Pennsylvania’s cost goals, the team will turn its attention to MI, which has a Wednesday deadline.

Stein’s campaign won 1.1 percent of votes in Wisconsin, 1.1 percent in MI, and 0.8 percent in Pennsylvania.

There is a deadline for any candidates to demand a recount, and they need to pay fees to file a request.

The states, once considered to be part of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s “firewall”, narrowly voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the general election, pushing him to an electoral college victory in the November 8 election.

The deadline for requesting a recount in Wisconsin is 5:00 Friday evening.

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 presidential nominee, is demanding a recount.

Mobley, the Thiensville village president was an early supporter of President-elect Donald Trump. In addition the filing fees, Stein hopes to raise enough money to cover attorneys’ fees in all three states.

Halderman, who also is director of Michigan’s Center for Computer Security and Society, wrote that many states continue to use voting machines that are known to be insecure and that can be infected with vote-stealing malware.

The deadline to petition these states for a recount is closing in; in Wisconsin the deadline is Friday, in Pennsylvania, the petition deadline is Monday, and in MI the deadline is Wednesday. “One of things we have, for example – there’s always development proposals and projects that we work on”, Mobley said.

Stein’s campaign made it clear that they were acting to ensure the election results were authentic and not because they thought she had one any of the states. In a New York Magazine article, they claim based on statistical analysis that manipulation may have taken place in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and MI, but the group has not found proof that any manipulation has occurred.

Last week, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta spoke with a few election lawyers and computer scientists who urged him to ask for a recount in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI because they thought the electronic voting booths used in those states could have been hacked, according to a report in NY magazine. The three states in question hold a total of 46 Electoral College votes; 30 of those have already been nabbed by Trump with Michigan’s 16 still to be determined.