Trump Officially Wins Michigan As Possible Recount Looms

If so, Democratic party supporters are now wondering if the Electoral College votes from these three states would even be enough to make Hillary Clinton president.

In a video posted to her campaign website, Stein explains this particular recount will require election officials to “p through some hoops” to come to a decisive conclusion about which presidential candidate claimed Pennsylvania’s electors.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Conway said Stein, “the Hillary people” and others supporting recounts have to decide whether they are going to back a peaceful transition “or if they’re going to be a bunch of crybabies and sore losers about an election that they can’t turn around”.

Wisconsin elections administrator Mike Haas said that if the recount battle moves to the courts, after the commission announces the new tally, it will be out of the commission’s hands.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has asked a judge to order a hand recount of the almost 3 million votes cast in the presidential election in Wisconsin. The Board of Canvassers will hear arguments on the challenge and rule within five days. The New York Times noted at the time that the statewide recount of Ohio’s 88 counties resulted in a net difference of 285 votes, meaning that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in OH by 118,457 votes, instead of 118,775.

Though the filing has been made in Wisconsin, Stein still faces issues there as well as the state has agreed to recount – but won’t consent to doing so by hand.

If Stein does succeed in getting a recount in Pennsylvania, it may resemble the one undertaken in 2004 in OH, initiated by the Green Party.

And Reince Priebus, Trump’s chief of staff, said that while the president-elect is not “seeking methods and ways to persecute and prosecute Hillary Clinton”, Trump would probably be “open to listening” should any new findings against her emerge from future investigations.

Construction continues on the presidential reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Friday looking toward the White House and the Washington Monument.

Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel, emphasized that analysts employed by the campaign have largely found no evidence to conclude that the election was tampered with. That leaves it up to each of the state’s 72 counties whether to perform the recount by machine or by hand.

Even the Clinton campaign acknowledged the recount efforts probably won’t do much to change the results.

US President-elect Donald Trump has said, in a tweet, that he won the popular vote in the 8 November election “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”. To say votes are being counted illegally is “an insult to the people that run our elections”, he said.

President-Elect Donald Trump has called the potential recount requests “ridiculous”.

That accusation – spread by conspiracy sites such as Infowars.com and discredited by fact-checking organizations – gained traction among some far-right conservatives disappointed that Trump lost the popular vote.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein officially requested a vote recount in Wisconsin Friday and has indicated she intends to do the same in MI and Pennsylvania. Elections Commission staff would then prepare the official recount canvass certifications by 3 p.m. December 13.

The last statewide recount in Wisconsin took about a month to complete. A spokeswoman for De La Fuente said he is considering his options for paying for his share of the recount.

Stein can ask a judge to order the recount be done by hand, which could considerably delay how quickly it gets done.

The chairman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission says a recount of the presidential election will reassure voters that the election was fair and accurate.

The recount is scheduled to begin on Thursday.

Haas noted that Bush v. Gore – there was a 537-vote margin – was decided by the Supreme Court on the 35th day after the 2000 election.