Judge orders MI recount to begin Monday
She also announced she had filed suit to have a Federal Court rule on whether there should be a recount in Pennsylvania.
And the state’s Republican Party is appealing a judge’s order to have the recount.
Meanwhile, Stein’s recount effort in Wisconsin has continued – but the effort has failed to yield a significant change.
Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes in MI. The news conference had a circus-like atmosphere, as some of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters heckled Stein. She has raised $7.2 million toward a $9.5 million goal, according to her website.
“We have so many checks and balances in place that it would make it hard for someone to do that but we are eager to get to work and show how our election worked out”, said Brown.
Well, the Stein campaign says Alex Halderman, a University of MI professor, is suggesting there’s a possibility there might’ve been some malware or a software malfunction that somehow someone intentionally put into these machines that would have given an inaccurate count of the vote.
“We are here to assure Donald Trump there is nothing to be afraid, put down your arms and your bureaucratic obstruction”, Stein. “There is no paper trail”, Stein said in the complaint.
Along with the cost, people against the recount don’t think it will change the results.
In six counties, Trump lost a total of 20 votes, while Clinton lost a total of 20 votes, WITI reported.
“He’s their president whether they like it or not”, MacDonald said.
On Friday, a federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed a request from two pro-Trump super PACs – Great Again PAC and Stop Hillary PAC – that were seeking a temporary order to stop the vote recount. Trump won MI by a little over 10,000 votes. Stein drew less than 1 percent of the votes cast there as well.
The state case also had threatened Pennsylvania’s ability to certify its presidential electors by the December 13 federal deadline, Republican lawyers argued. He won Wisconsin by 0.7%, and a recount is underway there.
A day earlier, a federal court in Wisconsin denied an emergency halt to the recount of the presidential vote, after two pro-Trump political action committees filed a request for a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the voter recount.
Officials in Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration have said there is no evidence hackers manipulated the vote.
A spokeswoman for Pennsylvania’s Department of State declined to comment.
A process that hasn’t happened in MI since 1952 – a candidate requesting a statewide recount – requested by the Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein – ordered by federal judge Mark Goldsmith just after midnight.
– Oakland and Ingham counties are starting today, others are starting Tuesday as MI has begun its presidential election recount.
‘Budgetary concerns are not sufficiently significant to risk the disenfranchisement of Michigan’s almost 5million voters’.
“This is a Michigan issue, and should be handled by the Michigan court system”, Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a press release. After the counting began, the state’s Republican Party filed its appeal.