Stein sues for recount in Pennsylvania; Michigan recount expected

Stein had also filed for recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in addition to MI – three traditionally blue states that president-elect won with a razor-thin margin. Even if all three recounts happen, none was expected to give Mrs Clinton enough votes to emerge as the victor.

Stein and her Green Party allies are seeking recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI. She has suggested that votes cast were susceptible to computer hacking.

Trump took to Twitter Sunday to counter Stein’s vote recount efforts, calling the push for recounts a “scam”.

Several Trump supporters heckled the proceedings, with one yelling, “Jill Stein is a common criminal”.

The recount, which will begin at noon on Monday, was ordered two days ahead of the two-day waiting period the state had planned to observe from Wednesday. He held a sign that read: “Dr Jill is a quack”, and said he voted for Trump. Both candidates lost 20 votes.

Meanwhile, Michigan’s appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday on Trump’s request to halt the recount for different legal reasons.

Election officials in the three states, all narrowly won by Trump, expressed confidence in their results.

She told the crowd Monday that the recount efforts are “about ensuring that all votes are counted and that voters can trust the system”, the Associated Press reports. Republicans appealed that ruling Monday.

In the official tally, Donald Trump, who won the state’s electoral vote on Election Day, had a 68,236 vote lead.

Stein denied that the more than $6.5 million she’s raised for the recount – far more than the almost $900,000 she collected for her 2012 presidential campaign and the $2.5 million she raised in 2016 as the Green Party nominee – is a list-building fundraising scheme.

The state case also had threatened Pennsylvania’s ability to certify its presidential electors by the December 13 federal deadline, Republican lawyers argued.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has been trying to force recounts in three states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – all part of the Rust Belt.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, last week filed a lawsuit to stop the recount. The count is underway in Wisconsin. “You find things where people have used a blue pen that the machine didn’t count on Election Day, so we’re hand-counting some of those”, Christensen said in elaborating on the effort.

Mark Brewer is an attorney for the Stein campaign who requested the recount.

In a surprising move, the campaign withdrew its statewide challenge in Pennsylvania on Saturday after a judge requested a $1 million bond.

The state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, has said there was no evidence of any cyberattacks or irregularities in the election.