Michigan to begin recount; legal fight moves to Pennsylvania

With a count already underway in Wisconsin, a federal judge ruled in a late-night order that MI also must begin its recount at noon Monday.

Stein’s campaign intends to continue its county-by-county recount effort in Pennsylvania, which requires efforts in individual precincts and requires three voters to successfully petition their local election boards. Some of the state’s counties are retallying the ballots by hand and others are using optical scanning machines such as those used on election night. There is no paper trail. “For a candidate that had 50,000 votes”. “It’s clear that the fix was in against a verified vote in the state of PA”. Results were similar in Lehigh County. “No issues out of the ordinary”. “Were Pennsylvania votes counted accurately?” Stein drew less than 1 percent of the votes cast. The outcome of the recounts, she added, “will be that we have an accurate, secure and fair voting system”.

The Pennsylvania Department of State declined comment on Stein’s lawsuit, as did an attorney for the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

The push also flies against what Stein said in October, in an interview with Fox News. Allegheny County’s recount yielded the exact same result as from immediately after the election.

“There are millions of voters out there who have worries, and they have good reason to be anxious”.

“We will not give in to intimidation”, said Stein. It says Pennsylvania’s paperless electronic voting machines make it a prime target for hacking.

This article was updated to include the Department of State’s latest vote tallies. A state court had ruled that the voters requesting the recount must pay a $1million bond.

Mlive reports that in the wake of the ruling, “o$3 fficials and election workers in Ingham and Oakland Counties kicked off the recount process shortly after noon Monday”.

Stein sued Pennsylvania election officials in federal court, demanding a statewide recount hours after a federal judge in MI ordered a recount to begin there without delay. Trump has claimed that cash will go directly into the pockets of the Green Party and that the recount is a “scam” to raise money.

Meanwhile, the Wisconsin recount is underway, with state officials racing the clock in order to complete before December 19.

Lawyers for Trump and the state Republican Party argued there was no evidence, or even an allegation, that tampering with Pennsylvania’s voting systems had occurred.

She is also promoting a rally in front of Trump Tower in NY to support the recounts.

Still, Stein announced the Pennsylvania recount will be taken to federal court.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments for 4 p.m. Tuesday. In Michigan, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by just 10,704 votes – the most narrow margin for a presidential election in the state’s history.

Sunday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith in OH ordered that the recount begin at noon Monday.

Trump won the state by 20,000 votes, meaning it’s very unlikely for the state to flip to Clinton. Donald Trump now holds a 47,000-vote lead against Hillary Clinton. “So we are standing firm for the hard-won and hard-fought right to vote, particularly for people of color”, Stein said at a rally outside Trump Tower on Monday.