Wisconsin elections chairman criticizes Trump

Pursuing a second track, Stein also filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania court to try to get a statewide recount.

Recounts in major statewide elections are extremely rare – and they seldom succeed in changing the result.

Stein’s campaign effort to launch vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and MI raised more than $5 million in less than one week – far more than the $3.5 million raised in her entire 2016 presidential campaign.

While Donald Trump has not formally indicated that he intends to contest a recount, it has been noted that he has been critical of Dr. Stein’s efforts. Because election districts there have different deadlines, some counties may be left out of the vote recount process.

Each of the state’s 72 county clerks can decide whether to recount ballots by hand or using tabulating machines, although Stein has asked a Dane County judge to order a hand recount. In a hand recount, clerks would individually tally those ballots.

Thomsen, a Democrat, fired back at Trump Monday and accused him of undermining the faith in American elections.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is seeking recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, states that went to President-elect Donald Trump.

“It is a total and complete hypocritical joke that the group of people that thought that they were nervous about President-elect Trump not conceding are the people that are conducting recounts in states where we won by over 68,000 votes”, Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday”, according to “The Hill”. Green Party candidate Jill Stein trailed them significantly. Given that they are not connected to the internet, they would have to be individually hacked in order to alter their results – a daunting task for the most enterprising meddler. She estimated the number is in the dozens-not almost enough, she noted, to prompt a recount of the entire county.

Rocky Roque de la Fuente, an independent candidate who got just 1,514 votes, also petitioned Wisconsin for a recount, though it was unclear whether he planned to pay for it. Federal law requires the recount to be completed by December 13.

The recount would include an examination of all ballots, poll lists, absentee applications, rejected absentee ballots and provisional ballots.

Monday, cost estimates and vote tabulation method will be provided by county clerks to the commission by noon.

“I don’t know what he was talking about on that one”, Lankford said of Trump on CNN’s “New Day”.

But Trump doubled down on the allegation around midnight, charging there was vote fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California, and accused the media of ignoring it.

The last statewide recount in Wisconsin came in 2011, in a state Supreme Court race.

“I really do think that it’s been ridiculous that so much oxygen has been given to a recount effort where there’s absolutely no chance of any election results changing”.

Stein’s Wisconsin recount request included an affidavit from University of MI computer scientist J. Alex Halderman stating that a hand recount is the only way to determine whether there could have been a cyberattack that affected the results. He says the records in the equipment could have been manipulated in an attack. The commission is holding an emergency telephone conference to approve the timeline.

Starting the recount on Thursday is dependent upon the commission receiving payment from those who requested the recount.

In Michigan, the Board of State Canvassers certified Trump’s win over Clinton by 10,704 votes out of about 4.8 million cast. “We are prepared to move forward at this time if we receive any type of recount petition by Wednesday afternoon of this week”. “But I don’t doubt that the president-elect is going to win that”.

Stein also disputed critics who say she is wasting money or personally profiting off fundraising for recount efforts.

President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and has a small lead in MI. This explanation is plausible, in light of other known cyberattacks meant to affect the outcome of the election; the profound vulnerability of American voting machines to cyberattack; and the fact that a skilled attacker would leave no outwardly visible evidence of an attack other than an unexpected result. It relies mainly on citing the hacking effort by Russian Federation to affect other portions of the election-such as the country’s reported work to hack Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign emails-as well as alleged voting anomalies that are easily explained by polling failures.