Trump supporters move to block election recounts

They deadlocked along party lines Friday, which meant the recount would proceed, but then the lawsuits started flying.

The legal actions could cause delays that would make that extremely hard if not impossible.

“On the basis of nothing more than speculation, Stein asks that MI residents endure an expensive, time-consuming recount”, the campaign’s filing said. “We deserve election results we can trust”.

Trump himself has condemned the recounts saying “The results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing”.

Ballots waiting to be recounted in Dane County.

This is just the latest development in an already murky situation for where the recount goes from here.

Stein has raised millions of dollars to pay for the recounts and denies that she is trying to overturn the election in favor of Clinton, though supporters of the former Secretary of State have joined the initiative. State officials say if there’s a failure to finish by that time, there’s no guarantee from Congress of Wisconsin’s submission of its ten electoral votes.

No court hearings had been scheduled as of early Friday afternoon.

Speaking to ABC, Kellyanne Conway said the Justice Department, Congress and the Federal Bureau of Investigation could still review Clinton-related inquiries.

Stein’s lawyers have offered no evidence of hacking in Pennsylvania’s election, and have sought unsuccessfully in recent days to get various counties to allow a forensic examination of their election system software.

The Wisconsin Republican Party has also filed a complaint over the recount effort in that state.

Stein countered Thursday that Trump’s “cynical efforts to delay the recount and create unnecessary costs for taxpayers are shameful and outrageous”.

Michigan Attorney General William “Bill” Schuette speaks in Boston, Massachusetts, December 17, 2014. But the board’s policy is to conduct the recount by hand.

Like Trump, Schuette argues that Stein is not an “aggrieved” candidate, and therefore does not have standing to request a recount.

The state’s top law enforcement official said that he had “filed an emergency motion with the Mich Supreme Court to bypass the Court of Appeals to ensure a timely process”.

The court had scheduled a hearing on the matter Monday but Otter asked for that proceeding to be delayed until Thursday.

Updated. A Wisconsin judge has rejected an effort to stop the state’s ongoing presidential vote reocunt filed by supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to reports.

Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities in the votes in all three states suggest that there could have been tampering with the vote, perhaps through a well co-ordinated, highly complex cyber attack.

Leading up to Election Day, Real Clear Politics polling data had Clinton leading in all three states in head-to-head battles.

In Bucks County, for example, Hillary Clinton’s lead over Trump grew from 1,988 votes on the night of November 8 to 2,699 votes as of Friday. He won both with slim margins, besting Democrat Hillary Clinton by about 27,000 votes in Wisconsin and 10,700 votes in MI.