Stein to make MI third state for presidential recount

Despite the fact that there are no apparent indicators of election fraud, the party’s presidential candidate, Jill Stein, requested the recount before a state judge in more than 100 precincts around the state, just as she had done last week in Wisconsin.

In expressing support for the recount, even the Clinton campaign acknowledged it had found no “evidence of manipulation of results” and that even in the closest of the states, Michigan, Trump’s lead “exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount”.

Stein spokeswoman Margy Levinson said in an email that the campaign decided not to appeal the ruling due to the tight time constraints for completing the Wisconsin recount, which begins Thursday. Trump seems determined to be a sore victor.

Donald Trump is claiming, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally in the presidential election he won.

She’s already successfully petitioned for one in Wisconsin, after raising more than $6.5 million to fund the recounts, and also filed for one in Pennsylvania on Monday.

Speaking to CBS News, she said: “We need to change our voting system”.

“We have not heard directly from Jill Stein’s campaign”, Thomas said. Stein announced plans to force a recount there on Wednesday.

Why did Stein have to raise money for the recount? It will cost our counties. There was a 1968 recount of a referendum on whether to adopt daylight saving time, which voters rejected by 490 votes. The Stein campaign said it was filing a legal challenge to trigger an all-hand recount.

The state’s elections director says recounts could begin early next week, and wrap up by December 10.

Wisconsin state law provides authority to each county’s Board of Canvassers to decide how to handle a recount and which ballots to count or not count. They worry that the possibility of elevating Trump’s image through pointless recounts, and giving him in effect another win, is not a good first step.

Meanwhile, the reasons behind Stein and the Green Party’s decision to call for the audits hinge mostly upon suggestions of foreign interference in the election and subsequent calls for audits by cybersecurity experts.

For example, in 2000 the two major-party nominees were separated by just 537 votes out of almost 6 million cast in Florida, and George W. Bush’s election ultimately turned on a recount in that decisive state – and a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Levinson says Stein’s focus will be on verifying the vote on the ground and she encourages counties to voluntarily conduct a hand recount.