Trump campaign objects to Michigan hand recount

Others continued pressing their election argument with efforts such as petitioning the Electoral College to vote down Trump.Through it all, Clinton remained largely silent.

MI authorities officially announced Monday that the state’s 16 electoral votes would go to President-elect Donald Trump, who outpolled Democrat rival Hillary Clinton by 10,000 votes. The ruling upholds a Wisconsin Elections Commission decision to follow state law, which lets each county choose how it recounts the ballots. Pennsylvania has more than 9,000 precincts.

The Philadelphia city commissioners have agreed to recount some ballots cast in the city, as requested by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, but rejected a forensic audit of how those voting machines work.

A certified recount in MI is not automatically granted, according to the Detroit Free Press. Stein’s team said it plans to demand a statewide hand-recount on Wednesday, in accordance with the 48-hour deadline to do so.

As promised, Stein has used that crowdfunded money to formally file for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and MI, fortunately meeting the deadlines for each state just in time. Because of the Wisconsin recount pushed, the deal of recounting the votes got the controversial notion in this nation.

Wieland takes a video of potential Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in the party’s regional convention Sunday afternoon.

Mark Brewer, a Southfield-based attorney for Stein, said the recount should start Friday morning as planned without delay. Meachum says the campaign had people in every major county across the state. We had hoped that having won the election, Trump would learn to stay above the fray. Obama’s press secretary Josh Earnest has since said there is also no evidence of Trump’s claim that millions voted illegally, according to Politico.

“Stein, in fact, finished no higher than fourth in any state where she appeared on the ballot”, they added.

The last state-wide recount for a candidate was held in 1952 when Democrat Governor G. Mennen Williams ran against Republican challenger Fred Alger. While Stein received less than 50,000 votes in the Keystone State, she contends that the recount is in order to build trust in the election system.

Trump received 2,279,543 votes, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, received 2,268,839 votes.

Johnson said it is unusual for a candidate who received only 1.07% of the presidential vote in MI to request a recount, “especially when there is no evidence of hacking or fraud, or even a credible allegation of any tampering”. They have until 8 p.m. December 12 to finish.

Stein had previously requested recounts of the presidential votes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The commission held a almost two-hour conference call with county clerks on Wednesday to explain the recount process and answer questions.

The Interminable Election of 2016 is not final according to Jill Stein believing that her motion of the Wisconsin Vote recount is substantial.

University of MI computer scientist Alex Halderman, who says voting machines and optical scanners that count ballots are prone to errors and outside manipulation, told reporters that the recount will show “for sure” whether cyber-attacks have occurred.

The Green Party noted how Stein’s effort give the appearance she is shilling for Clinton, particularly since the states that she chose to request a recount in are all states that Clinton lost to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Quite frankly, this presidential race and resulting recount worries me for future elections.

Lawyers representing Trump outlined their case for ending Stein’s recount effort in a 36-page filing to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Thursday. It carries none of the drama that Florida did in 2000, when the outcome of the election between Al Gore and George W. Bush hung in the balance.