U.S. presidential election: Former Green Party candidate files for Wisconsin vote recount

Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Mark Morgan issued a statement Friday calling Stein’s decision to seek a recount “absurd” and “nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines the election process”.

There is now credible information regarding the election results.

Amid hacking rumours, Green Party leader and former candidate for the United States 2016 presidential elections Jill Stein on Friday filed a request for a vote recount of the elections in Wisconsin.

Stein initially set a fundraising goal of $2.5 million.

“State law allows any candidate on the ballot to request a recount, but if the margin is more than 0.25 percent, the candidate must pay for its cost”.

The presidential race is decided by the Electoral College, based on a tally of wins from the state-by-state contests, rather than by the popular national vote. Therefore, some have wondered by Stein would include MI in the recount efforts as there was no purported risk of computer hacking as no electronic ballots are received in the state.

The basis for this week’s concerns, however, appears to be purely circumstantial.

The campaign has since blown past the number she requested on Wednesday, and it is now seeking a new goal of $7 million, the estimated amount needed to cover a recount in all three states.

Ross Hein, elections supervisor for the state commission, sent a memo to county clerks on Wednesday telling them to expect a recount.

“We’re fast”, Thomas said. “You have to have allegations of specific fraud, or machines that didn’t accept votes”. The deadline for filing a recount in Pennsylvania is Monday and in MI it is Wednesday next week.

If her demand for a recount is approved, all of the votes will be counted by hand at the county level under state supervision. According to CNN, she had raised $5 million by Friday.

The 2016 presidential election still isn’t over. “What we do have is an election that was surrounded by hacking”.

Carl Romanelli, the Stein campaign’s Pennsylvania field coordinator, told the Post-Gazette he wasn’t aware of problems in the state.

“I mean, I don’t know what the other possibility would be”, said Adsett.

“The fact that (the campaign) has basically funded itself overnight reflects the incredible hunger out there among the American people to actually start doing something positive and to start creating an election system that we can believe in”, Stein said.

Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and has a small lead in MI.

The Trump campaign and his top advisers have dismissed the effort.

Donald Trump won the state by 22,177 votes, in a surprise upset over Hillary Clinton that helped him pass the 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.