Michigan court members won’t consider recount

A federal judge has lifted an order that had allowed Michigan’s recount, effectively ending it.

Calling it a “fishing expedition”, Pennsylvania election officials on Thursday asked a federal judge to throw out a Green Party-backed lawsuit that seeks a recount of paper ballots cast in the November 8 presidential election and an inspection to determine whether election software was hacked.

U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued his written opinion late Wednesday, several hours after hearing arguments about whether a recount in MI is warranted or not.

The Stein campaign still hopes the Michigan Supreme Court will intervene to re-start the recount. He urged the judge numerous times to halt the recount and not stick MI taxpayers with a potentially $5 million recount tab for a candidate who has no chance of winning.

The recount of Wisconsin’s presidential election vote is almost finished. The halt came at a time where a number of counties were already engaged in ballot recounts, with some counties having already completed recount efforts.

He was referring to the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimous ruling, which said that Stein, who requested the recount, never had a shot at winning with her fourth-place finish and one per cent of the vote, and therefore was not an aggrieved candidate. Their filing argued the recount “threatens to violate the Equal Protection rights” of Johnson and other Wisconsin voters, citing the Supreme Court’s decision on Bush v. Gore in the 2000 presidential election recount.

Also Tuesday, a Republican-controlled committee in the Legislature approved a measure that would require candidates who lose by more than 5 percentage points to pay 100 percent of the estimated recount cost.

The three “Rust Belt” states narrowly supported Trump, reversing their recent history of backing Democratic candidates for president. Diane Petryk of Lansing, Mich., holds a sign that says, “Let the Recount continue” to rally and speak out against the courts decision to shut down the recount, at the.

A federal judge refused to stop the Wisconsin presidential recount on Friday. The judge also said Stein’s request to test the election system’s vulnerability to fraud lacked evidence.

The state high court denied the appeal Friday by a vote of 3-2.

Clerks now faced a deadline for completing their recounts by 8 p.m. on Monday night.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, on Monday said Stein was simply trying to “manipulate the system”.

The Free Press reported that 1,364 precincts were counted in all, meaning that Stein still has to pay $170,500.

In Michigan, Trump defeated Clinton by 10,704 votes; the ruling seals his narrow victory over her for Michigan’s16 electoral votes.

The court ordered the state election board to reject her recount petition.

Lawyers for Trump and Pence argued that Stein simply lacks standing to challenge the election results in federal court because she and a Pennsylvania voter also named as a plaintiff can not show any evidence votes in Pennsylvania were miscounted.

Ashland County: Original election results were inadvertently entered as recount results for the Day 6 update. In such cases, the original vote would stand. Democrat Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of Wayne County’s vote.

Stein and the Green Party’s efforts at a recount in Wisconsin are ongoing.

The results haven’t changed much as Donald Trump still has a 22,000.

Ms Clinton needed all three states to flip to take enough electoral votes to win the election. Stein got about 1 percent or less in those states. She has suggested, with no evidence, that votes cast were susceptible to computer hacking.