Recount efforts end: Trump wins in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania

Trump wound up with 131 more votes in Wisconsin than he had before the recount. She mixed half-truths about Russian meddling in the presidential race with the bogus notion that Wisconsin’s voting machines were vulnerable to a foreign attack.

Stein, who ended fourth in the election, questioned the outcomes in those two states aside from MI, where the state’s highest court on Friday rejected Stein’s final appeal to continue a recount.

In Pennsylvania, Trump beat Clinton in Pennsylvania by about 44,000 votes out of 6 million cast.

As they did in 2000, Democrats are contesting 2016’s presidential election results – this time only one month after fretting that, following his widely-anticipated humiliating loss, Donald Trump would dispute the outcome and undermine confidence in America’s election system. The Wisconsin recount was expected to conclude Monday. The refusal by some of the largest and most important counties in the state to conduct a hand recount “undermined the ability to get an accurate recount”, she added. In Michigan, the Supreme Court voted 3-2 to kill Stein’s attempt to compel a recount.

In Pennsylvania, Trump got 2,955,671 votes for a 49,543-vote lead over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who got 2,906,128 votes, according to the Department of State.

Stein filed for recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in late November.

Although 47 counties used a hand recount, Stein expressed disappointment that the whole state did not employ a hand recount.

“Trump and his GOP allies failed to obstruct #RecountWI-but the state already infringes on voters’ rights”, the Green Party candidate tweeted Monday.

In a 31-page ruling, Diamond said, in part, “Most importantly, there is no credible evidence that any “hack” occurred, and no compelling evidence that Pennsylvania’s voting system was in any way compromised”.

It was not immediately clear when the state would certify its results. She raised more than $7.3 million within weeks for the effort. But in the end, the recount exposed liberal conspiracies for what they were-wild fantasies, and served to further legitimize Trump’s claim to the Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes and, ultimately, the presidency.

Overall, the 25 seconds offered by CBS stood in marked contrast to the seven minutes and 26 seconds devoted to the recount over four days of evening newscasts at the onset of Stein’s push and the 36 seconds devoted to her campaign prior to the recount coverage.

Trump took to Twitter to celebrate the recount result.

Detroit elections officials told the state that in the one precinct, the 250 missing ballots were left in the tabulator bin, “but we want to verify this”, Woodhams said.

“Completing this recount was a challenge, but the real winners are the voters”, said Wisconsin Elections Commission Chair Mark Thomsen.