Presidential Election Recount in Wisconsin

Green Party candidate Jill Stein filed a request for recount Wednesday in the state of MI, following through on her promise to pursue recounts in three states that delivered the election to President-elect Donald Trump.

“If the board adopts the objection, then the recount is over with”, said Fred Woodhams with state Bureau of Elections.

Lawyers for the Trump campaign argued Thursday that Green Party nominee Jill Stein, a “bottom-dwelling candidate”, cannot seek the expensive, time-consuming recount because she was not “aggrieved” to the point where potential miscounting of votes could have cost her the election.

Trump’s objection states: “To count that many votes by hand is not feasible”.

A Dane County judge’s decision not to order a hand recount of Wisconsin’s presidential vote will be allowed to stand.

The Wisconsin recount marked the first time in 16 years there was a candidate-driven recount of a presidential recount. Meachum says the campaign had people in every major county across the state. But a series of key swing-state recounts could change control of the presidency, as well as the Senate and Supreme Court. Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by about 22,000 votes in Wisconsin. Stein cites concerns that cyberattacks could have altered results tabulated on Pennsylvania’s electronic voting machines. The board is also scheduled to meet 12 p.m. Saturday at Room 426 in the State Capitol building.

“No matter if it is approved or denied, you have to wait two business days before you can begin the recount”.

The Campaign said “because of this exorbitant fee increase”, the total money required for recounts in all three states will come up to $9.5 million.

“In Stein’s mind, apparently, election results are deemed unreliable, and election officials are deemed corrupt or incompetent, until proven otherwise”, the objections reads.

“In 2004, for instance, it was only after a recount that news emerged that 90,000 votes were not counted by scanners because the machines were not properly calibrated – and that was just one county in Ohio”. The process would have been ever more hard had Stein prevailed in her efforts to force the recount be done entirely by hand. Donald Trump has until next Wednesday to contest the recount there.

The complaint put on hold plans to move ahead with the recount of 4.9 million paper ballots cast in the November 8th election.

Stein “finished no higher than fourth in any state where she appeared on the ballot”, the filing states.

However, even the Obama administration says there is no evidence of cyber-attacks during the election.

Nearly no one expects recounts this year to result in a Clinton victory.

State officials, though, have initially estimated that the cost will be $787,500 spread over the state’s 3,600 voting precincts.