Jill Stein’s party to continue to seek recount in Pennsylvania, Michigan

MI will become the second state to conduct a recount of ballot casts during the 2016 presidential election.

A federal judge late Sunday night in Detroit ordered a statewide hand recount of roughly 4.8 million ballots, which started in some counties Monday afternoon. She is also pushing recounts in Wisconsin and MI after a prominent computer scientist laid out a case that the election results may have been hacked.

– A judge has ordered a recount of Michigan’s presidential results to begin by noon Monday.

Stein’s attorneys also argued that the barriers to a recount, including last week’s Commonwealth Court requirement that the campaign put up a $1 million bond to continue its effort, violated the constitutional rights of voters.

In addition to the Keystone State, the Stein campaign sought recounts in MI and Wisconsin, states where Republican President-elect Donald Trump narrowly defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin is the only state where a recount is underway.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein said Saturday she is dropping her bid for a statewide election recount in Pennsylvania.

In Pennsylvania, state election officials showed Donald Trump’s lead shrinking to 49,000 from 71,000 over Clinton; out of 6 million votes cast, as more counties finish counting overseas ballots and settled provisional ballot challenges.

Stein will hold a news conference about the Pennsylvania recount Monday at 10 a.m. outside Trump Tower in NY.

The proposition for the recount stated that only a “tiny 50,000 vote shift” (something of an oxymoron) would be needed to flip the Electoral College in Hillary’s favour and make her the true President-elect of the United States.

The case in Pennsylvania court has been part of an effort spearheaded by Stein to force recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three states with a history of backing Democrats for president that were narrowly and unexpectedly won by Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

She questioned, “How odd is it that we must jump through bureaucratic hoops and raise millions of dollars so we can trust our election results?”

The court order has forced the Green’s candidate to drop her petition for a recount in the state.

Trump has dismissed the recount efforts as a “scam”. It began Thursday, and one of the state’s 72 counties had already completed its task by Friday, with Clinton gaining a single a vote on Trump.

It is unclear when Goldsmith might rule after the rare Sunday hearing, but he was skeptical in the early arguments that Stein would be harmed if the recount is delayed until Wednesday.

Stein has also sought for the recount of votes in MI and Wisconsin. Mrs. Clinton would need to declare the victor in all three states to reverse the election results.

The results of all three battleground states must be overturned in order for Clinton to win the presidency but this change is unlikely.