Trump narrowly wins Mich. amid plans for recount

Now, her campaign is participating in the recount process.

Recount requests filed by the Green Party’s Jill Stein continue to gain momentum in key swing states as her campaign raises millions in a matter of days.

According to them, this suggests election fraud or hacking of the voting machines, although the recounts will not change the overall election results.

What do you think of Donald Trump’s election comments? MI was the last state to be called following the November 8 contest, though Trump was already well over the required 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

The state could lose control of how its electoral college voters cast their ballots.

The Green Party says it’s raised more than $4 million for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. On Monday afternoon, November 28, the state officially declared Trump the victor there. At the time Clinton called Trump’s comments “horrifying”.

Mr Trump won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and as of Wednesday, held a lead of nearly 11,000 votes in MI, with the results awaiting state certification on Monday.

In the statement, the WEC said it will be a challenge to complete a recount of three million votes in less than two weeks.

State electors meet in Austin and in state capitals nationwide next month to vote for president, and will also vote then on Sisneros’ replacement. States that miss those deadlines risk not having their electoral votes counted.

Stein has cited “statistical anomalies”, the differences between exit polls and actual results, and the possibility that election machines were hacked as the reasons for her recount effort.

“We are confident in our popular vote count”, Thomsen said.

Getting recounts takes money, so Stein had to fundraise. He added that the campaign is aware that the margin of victory in MI exceeds “well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount”. Stein estimates the Pennsylvania recount will cost $500,000. She also assumes $2-3 million in legal fees. State law now requires that Stein show a possibility of widespread voter fraud in the state in order to warrant a recount, since Trump won the state by about 1.2 percent, well over the 0.5 percent that would trigger an automatic recount. Michigan’s Republican governor Rick Snyder tweeted that there were “no ballot problems” in the state ahead of the likely recount.

She has until tomorrow to file her request.

“It is a matter of looking at the ballot and tabulators agreeing on either a hand count to agree what the vote is or examining the ballot and putting it back into the voting equipment”, said Mike Hass, Wisconsin Elections Commission said on Monday during a press conference.

Sandvick said she chose to do a hand count because of the time and expense involved in setting up the optical scanner voting machines, plus the time it takes to feed ballots into the machines; she said it probably will save time to hand-count ballots.