Michigan vote certified for Trump but recount requests loom

Wisconsin officials say the recount of 3 million votes will start by December 1 and be completed by December 13.

Either way, Wisconsin is set to verify its results from November 8, when President-elect Donald Trump won the state with 47.9 percent to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s 46.9 percent.

Stein doesn’t really have a stake in this – she didn’t get almost enough votes to be a contender – but, frankly, it does give her money and attention.

The Wisconsin elections commission chair said today that while the state is taking the necessary steps for an election recount, he does not expect it to change the state’s election results. They pointed only to past charges of irregularities in voter registration.

Trump and his aides have pushed back hard against that recount, with the president-elect letting loose a series of early-morning tweets in which he quoted Clinton about the need to respect the electoral process.

Recount petitions can only be filed by candidates listed on the ballot.

In a statement, Stein said, not for the first time, that she’s doing this to ensure the transparency and accuracy of our voting system.

“In Pennsylvania, it’s especially complicated”, she continued.

– Tom Salmon won the race for Vermont auditor in 2006 after he requested a recount.

A lawsuit would be the only recourse if the recount requirements aren’t met. He made the baseless charge in response to a recount effort led by the Green Party and joined by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Experts believe recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI are unlikely to result in an Electoral College victory for Clinton. I take voting fraud seriously.

“What the voting technology experts tell us is that you can not tell unless you’re actually counting paper votes”, she said. To be successful, Stein’s lawyers will have to produce evidence of fraud or hacking, of which there is none.

This gives the Republican an edge of just 10,704 votes and one of the tightest percentage margins – just 0.2 per cent – for a state in a presidential election in the past 75 years.

“The nightmare scenario would be if Pennsylvania decides the election and it is very close”.

“When you’re relying on people to count instead of a machine that’s used to reading an arrow, basically, it can take multiple times to get an accurate count and that takes time”, Christensen said.

What better way to promote voting system reform and election integrity…than running on such a platform in the next presidential election with the millions left over from this failed, unnecessary, pie-in-the sky recount effort, right?

The recount could potentially be hampered by the age and technical realities of the voting machines. Halderman said whether the machines are connected to the internet is irrelevant since election workers typically copy ballot designs from a computer that’s connected online and transfer the designs to the machines using memory sticks.