Wisconsin to recount presidential election votes

Stein received about 30,000 votes and De La Fuente about 1,500 out of 3 million cast.

Stein has witnessed a significant success in her fund raising goals for the votes recount, she said that till now she has raised more $4.8 million of her $7million goal.

Elias said the campaign has “quietly taken a number of steps” to analyze the integrity of the election, but has not found “any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology”.

The spokesman said: “We stand behind our election results which accurately reflect the will of the American people”. Michael Haas, the administrator with the commission says the recount could begin as soon as late next week.

Is it, therefore, necessary to examine the ballots and voting equipment to determine whether the vote counts have been manipulated?

The Green Party says they singled out Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania for a recount because of “a vulnerability of their voting systems”, among other things – like an unusually low voter turnout and a huge difference between pre-election polling and the actual result. The article points to Wisconsin, for example, where Clinton received seven per cent fewer votes in counties that used electronic voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots.

Recount deadlines for MI and Pennsylvania are next week. Deadlines in those states are next week.

We’ve filed in Wisconsin! And now, a candidate for the presidency is petitioning for a recount in those states.

Donald Trump could end up losing the election if the votes go the other way How close are the margins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania?

Elections officials in three states will have to move quickly if the Green Party’s presidential nominee, Jill Stein, is able to force a recount to be conducted by hand.

Wisconsin officials then confirmed on Friday evening they would move forward with the first presidential recount in state history. As my colleague Domenico Montanaro reported, MI was still finalizing its results Friday, but will officially certify Trump the victor on Monday. On Wednesday the secretary of state there officially accepted the certified recount results from all its counties, which gave Trump an adjusted 10,704-vote margin of victory.

The last statewide recount, which involved a state Supreme Court race in 2011, took more than a month. She estimates a Wisconsin recount would cost $1.1 million.

In the 2004 presidential election, the Green Party had votes recounted in OH, where a net difference of 285 votes was found.

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”.

The deadline for her to announce her challenge in Wisconsin is before midnight on Friday 25 November.

Political figures and political activists have reportedly called for the federal authorities to investigate whether Russian Federation was planning to interfere with the US elections. Michigan’s deadline is Wednesday.

Perhaps the most important deadline is December 19, when electors around the country must meet to cast their Electoral College votes, said Edward Foley, an expert in election law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

Voting rights lawyers who urged candidates to request recounts, John Bonifaz and J Alex Halderman, have said the results need to be closely analysed.

“Election integrity experts have independently identified Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as states where “statistical anomalies” raised concerns,” Dr Stein, 66, said in a post on her blog on Friday. The Republican beat Clinton in Pennsylvania by 70,010 votes, in MI by 10,704 votes and in Wisconsin by 27,257 votes. All three states had been reliably Democratic in recent presidential elections.

The New York Times reported in August that a hack targeting the personal email accounts of Democratic officials was widespread and included Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

During the campaign, Clinton criticized Trump for refusing to say that he would accept the election results if Clinton won.