Trump aide attacks Wisconsin recount while doubling down on ‘voter fraud’ claims

“This election has illuminated the vulnerability of election systems to real and perceived hacks”, King said.

And while this year’s national popular vote isn’t completely tallied, Hillary Clinton now has a margin of more than 2 million votes over President-elect Donald Trump.

Stein’s organization has also filed for recounts in six of Pennsylvania’s largest counties and says it plans to file a petition Wednesday demanding a MI recount.

“If you lined up people from all political angles, they would agree that we in the country have a lot of room to grow on that, and that voters and election officials would be better off if we made common sense reforms to voter registration”, said Myrna Pérez, leader of the Voting Rights and Elections project at the Brennan Center for Justice. The recount showed Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,004 votes, just 312 votes less than the unofficial results showed. Trump has labeled the fundraising effort a “scam”.

The states must complete their recounts by a December 13 deadline set by the federal government. Democratic party candidate Hillary Clinton also backed the recount, including the hand count.

Twice Haas acknowledged they’re unhappy with conducting a recount during the holiday season on behalf of a candidate who got only 30,000 votes in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin election officials pledged Monday they would oversee a fast and fair recount of the presidential vote there, as they race to beat a federal deadline for getting it done, but they declined a request to conduct the new tally by hand saying that can only be ordered by a court.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign formally joined Stein’s Wisconsin effort over the weekend.

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.

Thomsen dismissed Stein’s claims of problems with the Wisconsin vote as unfounded and misleading.

If the results in all three states were to be overturned, the 46 electoral votes Trump would lose would be given to Clinton, and would make her president-elect.

Further, with today’s final results from MI, it is expected that Donald Trump will win the U.S. Electoral College 306 to 232.

Yes. Wisconsin has already announced that the recount will begin Thursday if the fees are paid but Tuesday, but the state election commission rejected Stein’s request for a hand recount. In New Hampshire, the AP’s vote totals were reported directly to the news agency by town clerks and were verified by AP in most towns before the count was completed.

Trump issued a statement calling Stein’s maneuver a ruse to raise money that would not affect the outcome. The agenda calls for discussing counting procedures, how to treat absentee ballots, how to review provisional ballots and how to track expenses. And just because people are registered to vote in two states at the same time–which often happens when people move from one state to another, register in their new home state, and forget to de-register where they used to live-doesn’t mean all 2.75 million of those people surreptitiously crossed state lines on Election Day to vote twice against Donald Trump. Local election clerks will instead be allowed to set the recount method.

Securing a recount in Pennsylvania will be more hard than in Wisconsin.

The announcement Monday officially awards the president-elect Michigan’s 16 electoral votes.

In Michigan, the request goes to the Board of State Canvassers and Trump can challenge the request.

” Tom Salmon won the race for Vermont auditor by 102 votes in 2006 after he requested a recount”.

And experts say there’s no magic bullet for fixing the inadequacies of America’s voting system.

“What you are going to see in this recount is the numbers will change”, King said. In a machine recount, they would feed the ballots back through the machines, though they would also run a number of other checks such as reconciling the votes and signed names on poll lists.